costtracker 0.1.0

Simple and lightweight Python package to track LLM API cost

🚀 costtracker

Track your LLM API cost in real time — with one line of code.

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✨ 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.

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🔥 Features

• 📊 Real-time token + cost tracking
• ⚡ One-line integration (track(response))
• 🧠 Works with OpenAI-compatible APIs for now (Gemini included)
• 🪶 Lightweight & zero-config
• 🧱 Built for developers

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⚡ Quick Demo

from costtracker import track

track(response)

⚡ Output

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

📦 Installation

pip install -e .

⚙️ 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 openai import OpenAI
from costtracker import track

load_dotenv()

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=os.getenv("GEMINI_API_KEY"),
    base_url="https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemini-2.5-flash-lite",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "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