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🚀 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.

⭐ If you like this project

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📄 License

MIT License

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