Virtuals Cost Calculator

The Virtuals Cost Calculator is a free tool for Virtuals Protocol agent owners to estimate and cut what their AI agent spends on model inference. Enter your model, cron cycles per day, and tokens per cycle to see daily, monthly, and yearly compute costs — then compare every available model to find a cheaper one.

> What is the Virtuals Cost Calculator?

It is a free tool for Virtuals Protocol agent owners to estimate what their AI agent spends on model inference. You enter your current model, how many cron cycles run per day, and the input and output tokens used per cycle, and it shows daily, monthly, and yearly compute costs, then compares every available model to find a cheaper option.

> How are Virtuals agent compute costs calculated?

Cost per cycle is (input tokens / 1,000,000 x input price) plus (output tokens / 1,000,000 x output price), using each model's live price per million tokens. That is multiplied by your cron jobs per day for the daily cost, then by 30 and 365 for the monthly and yearly estimates. All of the math runs in your browser.

> How do I reduce my AI agent's inference costs?

Switch to a cheaper model that still meets your agent's quality needs, trim the tokens per cycle with shorter prompts and outputs, and lower the cron frequency where it does not hurt results. The calculator's recommendation finds the cheapest model at or above your agent type's quality tier, so you cut costs without downgrading capability.

> Where does the model pricing come from?

Pricing is fetched live from the Virtuals compute API (compute.virtuals.io) on page load, so it reflects what Virtuals actually charges. If the API is unreachable the tool falls back to bundled estimates and clearly flags them as such.

> Which model is cheapest for my Virtuals agent?

It depends on your token usage and what the agent does. Pick your agent type — trading and data, conversational, or complex reasoning — and the comparison table highlights the cheapest capable model along with the exact monthly savings versus your current model.