🚀 costtracker

Track your LLM API cost in your terminal in real time — with one command.

✨ Why costtracker?

Building with LLMs is easy.
Tracking cost isn’t.

costtracker solves this by giving you:

⚡ Instant cost visibility for every API call

No dashboards. No setup. No complexity.

🔥 Features

• 📊 Real-time cost tracking
• ⚡ One-line integration
• 🧠 Works with OpenAI and Gemini models (present)
• 🪶 Lightweight & zero-config
• 🧱 Built for developers

⚡ Quick Demo

pip install costtracker

costtracker run file.py

⚡ Output

Model: gemini-2.5-flash-lite
Tokens: 13 (input: 4, output: 9)
Cost: $0.000011

⚙️ Setup

Create a .env file in your root directory:

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

🧪 Usage

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from costtracker import track
from google import genai

load_dotenv()

api_key=os.getenv("GEMINI_API_KEY")

client=genai.Client(api_key=api_key)

response=client.models.generate_content(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
    contents="Hello there!"
)


track(response)

💡 Use Cases

• 🧑‍💻 AI app developers tracking API usage
• 🚀 Startup teams controlling LLM costs
• 📊 Experimentation with prompt optimization
• 🧪 GenAI project building

🤝 Contributing

• Contributions are welcome!
• Feel free to open issues or submit PRs.

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📄 License

MIT License