Cheapest Model for 10,000 Invoice Extractions: GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

GPT-5.4 mini vs Gemini 3.5 Flash
Complete Comparison: 5,000,000 input tokens × 1,000 output tokens
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🖼️ 10000 Images ⚡ 50% Cached

Complete comparison of pricing, performance, and capabilities for 2 leading AI models with 10000 Images, 50% Cached.

🖼️ Multimodal Input ⚡ Caching Optimized (up to 90% savings) 📊 Batch API
Comparison Criteria GPT-5.4 mini
OpenAI
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google
Calculation Results (Current Inputs) (10000 images, 50% cached)
Input Tokens 5,000,000 5,000,000
Output Tokens 1,000 1,000
Cost Breakdown
Input Cost $1.905000 (rounded ~ $1.91)Best $3.810000Worst
Output Cost $0.001125Best $0.002250Worst
Unit Cost (Audio/OCR) $0.000000 $0.000000
Service Fees $0.000000 $0.000000
Total Cost $1.048875 (rounded ~ $1.05) Best Value $2.097750 (rounded ~ $2.10) Most Expensive
Processing Time 5 hours, 45 minutes, 28.62 seconds Slowest 3 hours, 23 minutes, 13.38 seconds Fastest
Tokens per Second 500Slowest 850Fastest
Time to First Token 180ms Worst 90ms Best
Cost per 1K tokens $0.000103Best $0.000206Worst
Tokens per Dollar 9,687,522Best Value 4,843,761Worst Value
Cost per 1 Million Tokens (Informational)
Input Cost / 1M (Base) $0.187500 (rounded ~ $0.19)Best $0.375000 (rounded ~ $0.38)Worst
Output Cost / 1M (Base) $1.125000 (rounded ~ $1.13)Best $2.250000Worst
Input Cost / 1M (Optimized) $0.093750 (rounded ~ $0.09)Best
Optimizations: 50.0% batch
$0.187500 (rounded ~ $0.19)Worst
Optimizations: 50.0% batch
Output Cost / 1M (Optimized) $0.562500 (rounded ~ $0.56)Best
Optimizations: 50.0% batch
$1.125000 (rounded ~ $1.13)Worst
Optimizations: 50.0% batch
Capabilities & Advanced Features
Images Support
10000
✓ Supported ✓ Supported
Video Support ✗ Not Supported ✓ Supported
Audio Support ✗ Not Supported ✓ Supported
Caching Support
50
✓ Supported ✓ Supported
Batch API Support ✓ Supported ✓ Supported
Tool Usage Support ✓ Supported ✓ Supported
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GPT-5.4 mini
OpenAIMax Context: 400,000 tokens
$0.75 / $4.5 per 1M tokens
Use Batch API (50% discount)
50%
Provider-specific multipliers applied after all calculations
Enable for cache discounts
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Number of requests (max 1M). Summary view auto-enabled >10k.
Will auto-convert to minutes for Voxtral models (9000 tokens = 1 min)
$0.067 per 1,000 pixels

Calculate Token Costs

$0.952500 Input Cost
$0.001125 Output Cost
$0.000000 Unit Cost
$0.000000 Search Cost
$0.000000 Request Fee
$0.000000 Tool Fee
$0.000000 Code Execution
10,161,000Total Tokens
$0.000103Cost per 1K
9,687,522Tokens per $
📊 Advanced Cost Breakdown

Processing Speed

345m 28s Processing Time
500 Tokens/Second
180ms Time to First Token
490 Effective Speed

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Model Information

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🔄 Advanced Options

⚡ Optimization
Flat fee per session (e.g., $0.03 for Code Interpreter)
Hourly storage fee for cached data
First 50 hours free, $0.05/hour after

🧠 Reasoning & Thinking
Manual thinking tokens (billed at output rate)

🔧 Special Modes
Enable 6.0x Fast Mode multiplier

📚 Research & Citations
Enable $1.00/$4.00 rates + $10.00/1k search
Enable research tier pricing
Fee per source cited

🎤 Realtime Audio & Video
Session length for billing
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GPT-5.4 mini OpenAI

$1.048875 (rounded ~ $1.05)
Total Cost
⚠️ Bulk Calculation: Total volume exceeds single-request limit of 400,000 tokens. Budgeting mode active.
🖼️ 10000 Image (Medium) ⚡ 50% Cached 📊 Batch API 🔧 Tools
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Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✗ Not Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✗ Not Available
🔧
Tool Usage
✓ Available
📄
OCR Support
✗ Not Available
📊
Batch API
✓ Available
Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $1.906125 (rounded ~ $1.91) Input: $1.905000 (rounded ~ $1.91)
Output: $0.001125
Optimized Cost $1.048875 (rounded ~ $1.05) Input: $1.905000 (rounded ~ $1.91)
Output: $0.001125
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000
Total Savings $0.857250 (rounded ~ $0.86) 45.0% discount

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

🖼️ Multimodal Input
$0.000000
5,160,000 tokens
📊 Batch API
50.0% off
Asynchronous processing discount

Multimodal Input Details

🖼️ Images
Count: 10000
Resolution: Medium
Tokens: 5,160,000
Cost: $0.000000

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 5,000,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $1.905000 (rounded ~ $1.91)
  • Output Cost: $0.001125
  • Total Cost: $1.048875 (rounded ~ $1.05)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.000103
  • Tokens per dollar: 9,687,522 tokens
  • Context Window: 400000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 500 tokens per second and 180ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 5 hours, 45 minutes, 28.62 seconds
  • Latency: 180 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 500 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 490 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

Best Use Cases

High-volumecost-optimized invoice parsing for standardized and semi-structured documents.

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Gemini 3.5 Flash Google 1000000

$2.097750 (rounded ~ $2.10)
Total Cost
⚠️ Bulk Calculation: Total volume exceeds single-request limit of 1,000,000 tokens. Budgeting mode active.
🖼️ 10000 Image (Medium) ⚡ 50% Cached 📊 Batch API 🔧 Tools
👁️
Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✓ Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✓ Available
🔧
Tool Usage
✓ Available
📄
OCR Support
✗ Not Available
📊
Batch API
✓ Available
Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $3.812250 (rounded ~ $3.81) Input: $3.810000
Output: $0.002250
Optimized Cost $2.097750 (rounded ~ $2.10) Input: $3.810000
Output: $0.002250
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000
Total Savings $1.714500 (rounded ~ $1.71) 45.0% discount

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

🖼️ Multimodal Input
$0.000000
5,160,000 tokens
📊 Batch API
50.0% off
Asynchronous processing discount

Multimodal Input Details

🖼️ Images
Count: 10000
Resolution: Medium
Tokens: 5,160,000
Cost: $0.000000

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 5,000,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $3.810000
  • Output Cost: $0.002250
  • Total Cost: $2.097750 (rounded ~ $2.10)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.000206
  • Tokens per dollar: 4,843,761 tokens
  • Context Window: 1000000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 850 tokens per second and 90ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 3 hours, 23 minutes, 13.38 seconds
  • Latency: 90 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 850 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 833 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

Best Use Cases

High-volumecost-optimized invoice parsing for standardized and semi-structured documents.

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✨ Market Recommendations AI Model Registry

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📋 Active Input Parameters
Input Tokens: 5,000,000
Output Tokens: 1,000
Batch API: Enabled (50% discount)
Cached Tokens: 50%
Images: 10000 (Medium Resolution)
Tools: Enabled
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Efficiency in Document Extraction

Choosing between GPT-5.4 mini and Gemini 3.5 Flash for invoice extraction boils down to your specific tolerance for latency and the nature of your document variance. Both models are built for high-throughput, cost-sensitive environments where processing 10,000 invoices efficiently is the primary operational goal.

GPT-5.4 mini is often the preferred choice for teams already deeply integrated into the OpenAI ecosystem, offering consistent performance and predictable behavior across standardized invoice templates. Its reasoning capabilities are tuned to handle basic structural extraction reliably without the higher costs of larger frontier models.

Conversely, Gemini 3.5 Flash shines in multi-modal scenarios where your invoices may come in various formats, including poor-quality scans or mobile-captured images. Its native multi-modal capabilities provide a robust fallback for handling visual artifacts that might otherwise require pre-processing. For recruiters or operations teams building automated workflows, Gemini 3.5 Flash can often reduce the need for upstream image enhancement, potentially lowering total pipeline complexity.

When selecting your model, audit your document variety. If your incoming invoices are highly standardized, the efficiency of GPT-5.4 mini is hard to beat. However, if your pipeline faces a high volume of diverse, noisy documents, Gemini 3.5 Flash provides the visual robustness needed to minimize human-in-the-loop verification steps.

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How accurate are these AI model cost calculations?
Our calculations are based on official pricing from each provider (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral) and are updated regularly. We account for all factors including multimodal inputs, caching discounts, batch API pricing, tool usage multipliers, OCR processing, audio minutes, silence fees, and research mode pricing. Note: Reseller markups and dedicated instance multipliers have been removed to reflect official provider pricing.
How are image tokens calculated?
Images are tokenized based on resolution: Low: 85 tokens, Medium: 170 tokens, High: 255 tokens, Full: 765 tokens per image. Some models (like Llama 4 Maverick) use tile-based encoding with 1,610 tokens/image (standard) or 8,050 tokens/image (high-res).
How does prompt caching work?
Caching discounts vary by provider: Google and OpenAI offer 90% discounts on cached input tokens. Anthropic uses write (1.25x) and read (0.10x) multipliers. Savings are applied to the token portion only, not unit-based fees.
How do Market Recommendations work (v8.6.0)?
Our recommendation engine scans the entire model registry and only includes models that support ALL your current input parameters (tokens, images, video, audio, OCR, tools, batch API, etc.). It calculates exact costs with your settings and sorts by price, showing you the best value options that can handle your complete workflow. Special pricing models (OCR, video, audio, image generation) are properly handled and only appear when their specific input types are requested. v8.6.0 removes reseller markups (20% buffer) and dedicated instance multipliers to reflect official provider pricing.
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