tokenx-core 0.2.3

Cross-provider LLM token tracking and cost calculation

Track cost and latency of your LLM calls

👉 Like what you see? Star the repo  and follow @dvlshah for updates!

Decorator in → Metrics out. Monitor cost & latency of any LLM function without touching its body.

pip install tokenx-core[openai]          # 1️⃣ install

from tokenx.metrics import measure_cost, measure_latency   # 2️⃣ decorate
from openai import OpenAI

@measure_latency
@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini")
def ask(prompt: str):
    return OpenAI().chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
    )

resp, m = ask("Hello!")                                   # 3️⃣ run
print(m["cost_usd"], "USD |", m["latency_ms"], "ms")

---

🤔 Why tokenx?

Integrating with LLM APIs often involves hidden costs and variable performance. Manually tracking token usage and calculating costs across different models and providers is tedious and error-prone. tokenx simplifies this by:

• Effortless Integration: Add monitoring with simple decorators, no need to refactor your API call logic.
• Accurate Cost Tracking: Uses up-to-date, configurable pricing (including caching discounts) for precise cost analysis.
• Performance Insights: Easily measure API call latency to identify bottlenecks.
• Multi-Provider Ready: Designed to consistently monitor costs across different LLM vendors (OpenAI currently supported, more coming soon!).

---

🏗️ Architecture (1‑min overview)

flowchart LR
  %% --- subgraph: user's code ---
  subgraph User_Code
    A["API call"]
  end

  %% --- main pipeline ---
  A -- decorators -->   B["tokenx wrapper"]
  B -- cost      -->   C["Cost Calculator"]
  B -- latency   -->   D["Latency Timer"]
  C -- lookup    -->   E["model_prices.yaml"]
  B -- metrics   -->   F["Structured JSON (stdout / exporter)"]

No vendor lock‑in: pure‑Python wrapper emits plain dicts—pipe them to Prometheus, Datadog, or stdout.

---

💡 Features at a glance

• Track & save money – live USD costing with cached‑token discounts
• Trace latency – pinpoint slow models or network hops
• Plug‑&‑play decorators – wrap any sync or async function
• Provider plug‑ins – OpenAI today, Anthropic & Gemini next
• Typed – 100 % py.typed, 95 %+ mypy coverage
• Zero deps – slims Docker images

---

📦 Installation

pip install tokenx-core                 # stable
pip install tokenx-core[openai]         # with provider extras

---

🚀 Quick Start

Here's how to monitor your OpenAI API calls with just two lines of code:

from tokenx.metrics import measure_cost, measure_latency
from openai import OpenAI

@measure_latency
@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini")  # Always specify provider and model
def call_openai():
    client = OpenAI()
    return client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, world!"}]
    )

response, metrics = call_openai()

# Access your metrics
print(f"Cost: ${metrics['cost_usd']:.6f}")
print(f"Latency: {metrics['latency_ms']:.2f}ms")
print(f"Tokens: {metrics['input_tokens']} in, {metrics['output_tokens']} out")
print(f"Cached tokens: {metrics['cached_tokens']}")  # New in v0.2.0

🔍 Detailed Usage

Cost Tracking

The measure_cost decorator requires explicit provider and model specification:

@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o")  # Explicit specification required
def my_function(): ...

@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o", tier="flex")  # Optional tier
def my_function(): ...

Latency Measurement

The measure_latency decorator works with both sync and async functions:

@measure_latency
def sync_function(): ...

@measure_latency
async def async_function(): ...

Combining Decorators

Decorators can be combined in any order:

@measure_latency
@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o")
def my_function(): ...

# Equivalent to:
@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o")
@measure_latency
def my_function(): ...

Async Usage

Both decorators work seamlessly with async functions:

import asyncio
from tokenx.metrics import measure_cost, measure_latency
from openai import AsyncOpenAI # Use Async client

@measure_latency
@measure_cost(provider="openai", model="gpt-4o-mini")
async def call_openai_async():
    client = AsyncOpenAI()
    response = await client.chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-4o-mini",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Tell me an async joke!"}]
    )
    return response

async def main():
    response, metrics = await call_openai_async()
    print(metrics)

# asyncio.run(main()) # Example of how to run it

---

🔄 Provider Compatibility

tokenx is designed to work with multiple LLM providers. Here's the current compatibility matrix:

Provider	Status	SDK Version	Response Formats	Models
OpenAI	✅	>= 1.0.0	Dict, Pydantic	All models (GPT-4, GPT-3.5, etc.)
Anthropic	🔜	-	-	Claude models (coming soon)
Google	🔜	-	-	Gemini models (coming soon)

OpenAI Support Details

• SDK Versions: Compatible with OpenAI Python SDK v1.0.0 and newer
• Response Formats:
  • Dictionary responses from older SDK versions
  • Pydantic model responses from newer SDK versions
  • Cached token extraction from prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens
• API Types:
  • Chat Completions API
  • Traditional Completions API
  • Support for the newer Responses API coming soon

🛠️ Advanced Configuration

Custom Pricing

Prices are loaded from the model_prices.yaml file. You can update this file when new models are released or prices change:

openai:
  gpt-4o:
    sync:
      in: 2.50        # USD per million input tokens
      cached_in: 1.25 # USD per million cached tokens
      out: 10.00      # USD per million output tokens

Error Handling

tokenx provides detailed error messages to help diagnose issues:

from tokenx.errors import TokenExtractionError, PricingError

try:
    calculator = CostCalculator.for_provider("openai", "gpt-4o")
    cost = calculator.cost_from_response(response)
except TokenExtractionError as e:
    print(f"Token extraction failed: {e}")
except PricingError as e:
    print(f"Pricing error: {e}")

📊 Example Metrics Output

When you use the decorators, you'll get a structured metrics dictionary:

{
    "provider": "openai",
    "model": "gpt-4o-mini",
    "tier": "sync",
    "input_tokens": 12,
    "output_tokens": 48,
    "cached_tokens": 20,        # New in v0.2.0
    "cost_usd": 0.000348,       # $0.000348 USD
    "latency_ms": 543.21        # 543.21 milliseconds
}

🤝 Contributing

git clone https://github.com/dvlshah/tokenx.git
pre-commit install
pip install -e .[dev]   # or `poetry install`
pytest -q && mypy src/

See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

---

📝 Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for full history.

---

📜 License

MIT © 2025 Deval Shah

If tokenX saves you time or money, please consider sponsoring or giving a ⭐ – it really helps!