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AgentCost

Track, control, and optimize your AI spending.

AgentCost is an open-source cost governance platform for AI agents. It gives you visibility into what your LLM calls actually cost, forecasts future spending, and recommends cheaper models that deliver equivalent quality.

Why AgentCost?

Teams deploying AI agents across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-source providers face three problems:

  1. Invisible costs — No centralized view of what each model, project, or agent is spending
  2. Unpredictable growth — Costs spike with no warning as usage scales
  3. No optimization signal — No way to know if a cheaper model would work just as well

AgentCost solves all three with a single pip install.

Quick Start

pip install agentcostin

from agentcost.sdk import trace
from openai import OpenAI

# One line wraps your client
client = trace(OpenAI(), project="my-app")

# Use it exactly as before — costs are tracked automatically
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)

# Launch the dashboard
agentcost dashboard
# → http://localhost:8500

That's it. Every LLM call is now tracked with model, tokens, cost, latency, and status.

What You Get

Feature Description
Tracing SDK Wrap any OpenAI/Anthropic/LiteLLM client in one line
2,610+ Model Pricing Vendored pricing from 40+ providers, auto-synced weekly
Dashboard 7-tab web UI with real-time model search across all providers
Cost Intelligence Tier classification, complexity routing, budget gates, token analysis
Cost Forecasting Predict next 7/14/30 days of spending
Cost Optimizer Model downgrade recommendations with savings estimates
Prompt Estimator Pre-call cost estimation across 2,610+ models
Reactions Engine YAML-driven event reactions (budget alerts, auto-suspend, webhooks)
8-Slot Plugin System Notifier, Policy, Exporter, Provider, Tracker, Reactor, Runtime, Agent
Goal Attribution Track costs per business objective with hierarchical rollup
Governance Templates Pre-configured profiles: startup, enterprise, SOC2, agency, research
Heartbeat Monitoring Per-cycle cost tracking for agent orchestrators (Paperclip, CrewAI)
Framework Integrations LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex
Exporters OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
CLI Benchmark, compare, trace, budget management
TypeScript SDK Full Node.js/Deno/Bun support

Editions

AgentCost comes in two editions:

Community (MIT) — Everything a developer or small team needs. SDK, dashboard, forecasting, optimizer, analytics, estimator, plugins, CLI, exporters.

Enterprise (BSL 1.1) — Adds governance for organizations: SSO/SAML, multi-tenant orgs, budget enforcement, policy engine, approval workflows, notifications, agent scorecards, audit logs, anomaly detection, AI gateway.

See Enterprise Features for details.

Next Steps