Reranking Cost Calculator

This simulator runs the deterministic workflow economics model twice with shared assumptions and isolates what rerank-depth changes do to reranking cost, total cost per user, and break-even price.

How It Works

1. Set provider/model plus workload assumptions used in both runs.
2. Set baseline and candidate rerank docs per request.
3. Compare reranking cost, total cost delta, and break-even delta.

Formula

reranking_cost_per_request = rerank_docs / 1000 * rerank_per_1k_docs

total_cost_delta = cost_candidate - cost_baseline

Assumptions and Units

• Currency: USD
• Rerank unit: documents scored per request
• Baseline and candidate use the same non-rerank assumptions
• Pricing source: daily snapshot in repo, no runtime scraping

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