Stop Guessing Your API Costs: Track LLM Tokens in Real Time
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
AI Business
If you're building with LLMs in 2026, you already know the pain: API costs can spiral fast, and most of the time you have no idea how many tokens you're actually burning until the invoice hits. I've been shipping AI-powered features for months now, and the single biggest quality-of-life improvement in my workflow wasn't a new framework or a fancier model - it was simply being able to see my token usage in real time. The Problem Most LLM providers give you a dashboard, but it's always lagging behind.