Cognee SDK · Self-hosted

SDK Cost Calculator

Estimate what it costs to run the open-source Cognee SDK on your own infrastructure — your own LLM API keys, embeddings, compute, and database. These are not Cognee Cloud prices. For fully-managed, usage-based Cloud pricing, see our pricing page.

GB

Percentage of PDF content that is text (vs images, whitespace, etc.)

40% (Average)

Self-hosted SDK

Run on your own infrastructure & API keys

One-time processing cost

$26.68

Monthly infrastructure cost

$10.00 / month

Data Overview

Total Tokens

6M

Total Vectors

11,719

Cost Breakdown

Embedding (text-embedding-3-small)$0.12
Graph Extraction(GPT-5.4 Mini)
$25.56
Compute (Modal)$1.00
Storage (Qdrant Standard)$10.00/mo

These figures estimate the cost of self-hosting the open-source Cognee SDK on your own infrastructure — they are not Cognee Cloud prices. Estimates are based on publicly available API pricing and typical Cognee processing patterns. Actual costs may vary based on content complexity, concurrency, and provider-specific factors such as batch discounts and caching. Infrastructure costs (bandwidth, scaling) may add marginal costs.

Self-host or skip the infra

Self-hosted SDK

Your own infrastructure & API keys

$26.68 one-time

+ $10.00 / month infrastructure

You operate the LLM, embeddings, compute and database — and pick any model above.

Cognee Cloud

Fully managed — $2.5 per 1M tokens, all-in

$15.00 all-in usage

6M tokens × $2.5/1M · no infra to run

Runs on gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI's open-weight model
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