Feat: Track streaming (SSE) LiteLLM cost in litellm-budget-track - #816
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Streamed responses (text/event-stream — what Claude Code's /v1/messages uses) report cost 0 in the x-litellm-response-cost header because the total is not known when the headers are sent, so header-based tracking recorded $0 for all Claude Code traffic. Make the plugin a StreamingResponder: OnResponseFrame parses token usage out of the terminal SSE events (Anthropic message_start/message_delta/message_stop, and OpenAI's final usage chunk), accumulated across frames via per-request pipeline state, and on the terminal frame settles the cost — the response-header cost when present (non-streaming), otherwise parsed usage times the configured per-token rates. On the proxy listeners RunResponse skips StreamingResponder plugins, so OnResponseFrame now drives accumulation for both buffered and streamed shapes; OnResponse is retained for listeners that only call it. New config: input_cost_per_token / output_cost_per_token (USD/token). When unset, streamed responses cannot be priced and contribute 0 (safe default). Adds streaming tests: usage-based pricing, no-price safety, header-cost precedence, -original fallback on the terminal frame, and OpenAI usage parsing. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
Applies the outstanding review feedback from rossoctl#815 (the header-fix PR, now merged), on top of the streaming enhancement: - Reject non-finite response costs (coderabbitai, Major). strconv.ParseFloat accepts NaN/+Inf; both slip past a bare `cost <= 0` check, poison TotalSpend so the budget gate never trips, and break json.Marshal — saveLedger then overwrote the file with empty data. accumulate() is now the single chokepoint that drops non-finite/non-positive costs, headerCost() rejects them so a garbage header falls through to the usage path, and saveLedger() no longer overwrites on marshal error. - Stop before dereferencing a nil Violation in TestOnRequestEnforcesBudget (coderabbitai + clawgenti). Use t.Fatal for the nil guard, then check Status and Code separately. - Add the listener-level forward-proxy SSE test the review asked for (huang195): stand up the real forward proxy with a streamed text/event-stream upstream and BudgetTrack as a StreamingResponder, drive a request through the proxy, and assert the ledger moved. This covers the outbound+SSE+StreamingResponder combination that direct-call unit tests structurally cannot. - Add a non-finite-cost regression test asserting the ledger and its file stay clean for NaN/Inf/+Inf/-Inf headers. - Docs: describe the buffered-vs-streamed hook split and that a streamed (text/event-stream) response only reaches cost accounting via OnResponseFrame because the plugin is a StreamingResponder (huang195 doc nit). Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBudgetTrack now prices streamed SSE usage by uncached input, cache-write, cache-read, and output token rates. It validates these rates, settles streamed responses once, and verifies ledger updates through the forward proxy. ChangesBudgetTrack streaming accounting
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds streamed SSE usage to the shared spend ledger, but duplicate tracker configurations can leave one ledger undercounted and a positive response header can suppress larger terminal usage, delaying budget enforcement; the Envoy-sidecar path may also buffer complete SSE responses and retain unbounded bodies. Merge should wait for these streaming and accounting issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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`@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/forwardproxy_integration_test.go`:
- Around line 74-81: Update the proxy request in the test to create it with
http.NewRequestWithContext using t.Context(), then send it through the
configured client with client.Do instead of client.Get. Preserve the existing
URL and request error handling, and continue closing the response body.
In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go`:
- Around line 54-55: Update Configure to validate InputCostPerToken and
OutputCostPerToken as finite, non-negative values before loading the ledger,
rejecting invalid rates with an appropriate configuration error.
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- Reject negative / non-finite per-token rates in Configure (coderabbitai, Major). A negative input_cost_per_token / output_cost_per_token would make a streamed request's cost negative, which accumulate() drops — so the request would silently neither charge budget nor record a call. Validate both rates finite and >= 0 at config time; add negative-rate cases to TestConfigureRejectsBadConfig. - Use http.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), ...) + client.Do instead of client.Get in the forward-proxy integration test (noctx), and check resp.Body.Close() (errcheck). Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
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This is the right fix for the gap I flagged on #815, and the two integration tests are the honest kind — TestForwardProxyStreamedSSEUpdatesLedger stands up a real forward proxy and would have failed on the header-only version, and TestPipelineDetectsStreamingResponder pins the WrapConfigured behavior that a direct-call unit test structurally cannot see. The non-finite hardening (headerCost rejecting NaN/Inf, saveLedger bailing on a marshal error, config-time rate validation) closes the data-integrity hole properly, and taking p.mu before reading the ledger in the integration test is a good detail.
One blocker: Capabilities() still doesn't declare ReadsBody, which makes the streaming accounting this PR adds a no-op on the extproc listener — or a double-charge, depending on the deployed Envoy processing_mode. It's a one-line fix and the suite stays green with it. The other three are non-blocking, though the headerCost zero-vs-absent one is worth doing in the same pass, because fixing ReadsBody is precisely what makes it reachable.
Author: aslom (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (plugin + tests), Docs
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Against a clone of aslom/cortex@bbfdcf6 on go1.26.5:
- Package suite passes as-is, and still passes with
ReadsBody: trueadded — including the new forward-proxy integration test — so finding 1's fix is non-breaking on the proxy listeners. Pipeline.NeedsBody()isfalsefor a BudgetTrack-only pipeline (Normalize()derivesReadsBodyonly fromWritesBody).- Replayed extproc's header-only branch (
RunResponse+ a singleRunResponseFrame(nil, true)) against a streamed response:TotalSpend=0 TotalCalls=0. - A second terminal dispatch:
spend 0.0003 → 0.0006,calls 1 → 2. - Cost header
"0"plus a usage-bearing body: charged0.0003. - Audited every
last=truedispatch site — all are exactly-once today (reverseproxy guards withb.finished, forwardproxy uses a singledefer), so finding 2 is latent rather than live. - The header constants are canonical-cased, so the
http.Header{responseCostHeader: {...}}map literals in the tests do resolve throughGet— no bug there.
nit, not worth its own thread: accumulate drops cost <= 0, so a streamed request with no configured rates increments neither TotalSpend nor TotalCalls — as TestStreamingWithoutPricesRecordsZero asserts. Enforcement is unaffected (OnRequest gates on TotalSpend only), but it does mean the ledger can't distinguish "no streamed traffic" from "streamed traffic we couldn't price". A slog.Warn on the terminal frame when usage parsed but both rates are zero would surface that misconfiguration — the forward proxy already does something similar when it sees a ReadsBody plugin that isn't a StreamingResponder.
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| Description: "Track x-litellm-response-cost and enforce daily budget limit.", | ||
| Description: "Track LLM cost (response header or streamed usage) and enforce a daily budget.", |
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must-fix — Capabilities() declares neither ReadsBody nor WritesBody, but as of this PR the plugin does parse the response body. PluginCapabilities.Normalize() only derives ReadsBody from WritesBody, so Pipeline.NeedsBody() comes out false for any pipeline containing this plugin:
HasStreamingResponders = true
NeedsBody = false
That matters on the extproc (envoy-sidecar) listener, because handleResponseHeaders requests a buffered response body via ModeOverride only when NeedsBody() is true. With it false it takes the header-only branch, dispatches a single RunResponseFrame(pctx, nil, true), and states in its own comment that "No body phase will run". Driving exactly that sequence with a streamed response (Content-Type: text/event-stream, cost header 0):
after extproc header-only dispatch: TotalSpend=0 TotalCalls=0
So the feature this PR adds records nothing on that listener. And if the deployed Envoy processing_mode sets response_body_mode: BUFFERED statically, then handleResponseBody runs as well — a second last=true via dispatchBufferedFrames — which double-charges the ledger (see the comment on line 171). I can't read the rendered Envoy config from this repo, so it's one or the other depending on deployment. ReadsBody: true fixes both, because the header phase then early-returns without dispatching at all.
inference-parser — the sibling plugin that parses response bodies — declares it (inferenceparser/plugin.go:29):
return pipeline.PluginCapabilities{
ReadsBody: true,
Description: "Track LLM cost (response header or streamed usage) and enforce a daily budget.",
}I ran the full package suite with that one line added, including your new TestForwardProxyStreamedSSEUpdatesLedger — all green. The proxy listeners gate on HasStreamingResponders() rather than NeedsBody(), so nothing there changes.
If extproc is deliberately out of scope for this plugin, that's a legitimate answer — but then the docs should say so, because nothing in the config surface hints at it.
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suggestion — the comment says "settle the cost exactly once", but nothing enforces it, and accumulate is a +=. A second terminal dispatch charges twice:
one last=true : spend=0.0003 calls=1
two last=true : spend=0.0006 calls=2
This is the first plugin whose last=true handler has a non-idempotent side effect. inference-parser and a2a-parser finalize by overwriting fields, so a repeat dispatch is harmless for them — which means the listeners' exactly-once contract is now load-bearing for money in a way it wasn't before.
Today's listeners are disciplined about it (reverseproxy guards with b.finished, forwardproxy uses a single defer), so this is latent rather than a live bug. But a flag makes the comment true for free, and it also neutralizes the extproc double-dispatch branch described on line 95:
type usageState struct {
inputTokens int
outputTokens int
settled bool
}One wrinkle worth handling: on a header-cost-only response no usage frame ever arrives, so the scratch is still nil at the terminal frame. Materialize it unconditionally in the terminal block (or use a separate sentinel key) so the guard covers that case too — otherwise the header-only path stays unguarded, which is exactly the extproc shape.
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| // headerCost returns the cost reported in the response headers, or 0 when | ||
| // absent/zero/unparseable. Streamed responses report 0 here. | ||
| func headerCost(pctx *pipeline.Context) float64 { |
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suggestion — headerCost returns 0 for "header absent", "header is 0", and "header is garbage" alike, and the caller treats all three identically as "fall back to per-token pricing". But x-litellm-response-cost: 0 is also what LiteLLM reports for a genuinely free call — cache hits and error responses, not only streams. So a non-streamed response that LiteLLM priced at zero gets charged from its own usage block:
cost header "0" + usage body => TotalSpend=0.0003 TotalCalls=1
Not reachable today on the forward proxy, since pctx.ResponseBody is empty without ReadsBody and there's no usage to find — but it becomes reachable the moment the Capabilities() finding on line 95 is addressed. The two interact, so they're worth fixing in the same pass rather than sequentially.
Tightening the fallback condition settles it: price from usage only when the header is absent, or when Content-Type is text/event-stream (the listeners already carry an isEventStream helper for precisely this test). Streaming is the case you want the fallback for, and it's exactly identifiable — no need to infer it from a zero.
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suggestion — this is no longer accurate for any in-tree listener. Now that the plugin satisfies StreamingResponder (the new assertion at plugin.go:327), pipeline.RunResponse skips it — and that skip is unconditional, not streaming-only. Buffered application/json bodies reach the plugin as a single RunResponseFrame(..., last=true), the same as everything else.
Only reverseproxy, forwardproxy, and extproc call RunResponse, and all three pair it with RunResponseFrame when HasStreamingResponders() — so no in-tree listener calls only OnResponse, which makes that hook dead outside tests. The godoc on OnResponse itself is careful about this ("listeners that only call OnResponse"); it's this table that reads as though buffered accounting still flows through it.
Suggest reframing the two bullets around what the cost source is (response header vs parsed usage) rather than which hook fires, since OnResponseFrame is now the answer to both. As written, an operator would conclude buffered accounting is unaffected by the StreamingResponder change — the opposite of what happened.
huang195 CHANGES_REQUESTED on PR rossoctl#816: - MUST-FIX: declare Capabilities().ReadsBody = true. The plugin parses the response body now, but with ReadsBody unset Pipeline.NeedsBody() is false, so the extproc (envoy-sidecar) listener never buffers the body — it takes the header-only branch and streamed accounting records nothing (or double-charges if Envoy is statically BUFFERED). Mirrors inference-parser. Proxy listeners gate on HasStreamingResponders() and are unaffected. - Enforce exactly-once settlement. accumulate() is a +=, and the terminal-frame comment claimed "settle once" without enforcing it; a second last=true dispatch double-charged. Add usageState.settled, materialized unconditionally on the terminal frame so the header-only path is guarded too. Neutralizes the extproc header+body double-dispatch as defense-in-depth. - Fix headerCost zero-vs-absent. A genuine free call (x-litellm-response-cost: 0 on a non-streamed response — cache hit / error) was re-priced from its usage block. headerCost now reports presence; usage pricing applies only when the header is absent or the response is text/event-stream (isEventStream helper). - Docs: reframe around cost source (header vs parsed usage) since RunResponse skips the plugin unconditionally now and OnResponseFrame handles both shapes. Adds tests: ReadsBody capability, exactly-once (double terminal dispatch), zero-cost header not re-priced (non-streamed) vs priced from usage (streamed). Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go`:
- Around line 97-104: The Envoy response path buffers SSE bodies because
BudgetTrack.Capabilities() declares ReadsBody; preserve streaming delivery by
adding a streamed response-body dispatch path for StreamingResponder plugins
instead of requesting BUFFERED handling. Update the relevant
response-header/body dispatch functions, including dispatchBufferedFrames as
needed, while retaining buffered behavior for non-streaming plugins. Add an
extproc test with an upstream that remains open and verify the first SSE event
reaches the client before the terminal event.
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| // ReadsBody: the plugin parses the response body (streamed usage). It | ||
| // makes Pipeline.NeedsBody() true so the extproc (envoy-sidecar) listener | ||
| // buffers the response body and takes its body-phase branch; without it | ||
| // that listener dispatches a single header-only RunResponseFrame and the | ||
| // streamed accounting silently records nothing (or double-charges if | ||
| // Envoy is statically configured BUFFERED). The proxy listeners gate on | ||
| // HasStreamingResponders() and are unaffected. Mirrors inference-parser. | ||
| ReadsBody: true, |
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In Envoy's external processing (ext_proc) filter, the response_body_mode within ProcessingMode determines how the response body is delivered to an external processing server. The two primary modes you inquired about function as follows: BUFFERED: In this mode, the filter buffers the entire message body in memory before sending it as a single message to the external processor [1][2]. If the total size of the body exceeds the configured buffer limit, the downstream system will receive an error [3][2]. When combined with SEND for the response_header_mode, it is the external processor's responsibility to ensure that any mutated body matches the Content-Length header; if they do not match, the mutation is rejected and a local reply with an error is issued [4][2]. STREAMED: In this mode, the body is streamed to the external processor in pieces as they arrive at the proxy [2]. This avoids the memory overhead of buffering the entire body [3]. Because the header processing completes before body mutation is returned, the ext_proc filter will automatically remove the Content-Length header to prevent inconsistencies [3][2]. Key Considerations: 1. Content-Length Header: The ext_proc filter automatically removes the Content-Length header in STREAMED mode (and other non-buffered modes) because the body length cannot be guaranteed during header processing [3][2]. 2. Mutation Responsibility: In BUFFERED mode with SEND header mode enabled, you must manage the Content-Length header manually if you mutate the body [4][2]. 3. Configuration: These modes are configured via the response_body_mode field in the ProcessingMode configuration within the ext_proc filter [4][5]. For further technical details and specific protocol definitions, refer to the official Envoy ext_proc processing_mode.proto documentation [4][6].
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Preserve SSE delivery on the Envoy path.
BudgetTrack.Capabilities() sets ReadsBody, so handleResponseHeaders requests ResponseBodyMode: BUFFERED. Envoy buffers the entire response before sending it to handleResponseBody. dispatchBufferedFrames can reframe events for plugins, but it cannot restore downstream flushes. Long-lived or large SSE responses can block delivery, retain the full body in memory, and exceed Envoy's buffer limit.
Use a streamed response-body dispatch path for StreamingResponder plugins. Add an extproc test that holds the upstream open and asserts that the first SSE event reaches the client before the terminal event.
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go` around lines 97 -
104, The Envoy response path buffers SSE bodies because
BudgetTrack.Capabilities() declares ReadsBody; preserve streaming delivery by
adding a streamed response-body dispatch path for StreamingResponder plugins
instead of requesting BUFFERED handling. Update the relevant
response-header/body dispatch functions, including dispatchBufferedFrames as
needed, while retaining buffered behavior for non-streaming plugins. Add an
extproc test with an upstream that remains open and verify the first SSE event
reaches the client before the terminal event.
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general question out of curiosity - the header path is generic, but the streaming fallback is already inference-specific. Is there a reason we don't reuse pctx.Extensions.Inference (populated by inference-parser) for the streaming case?
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All four findings from my previous review are fixed, each with a regression test. I re-verified them against 667b9b9 independently rather than taking the new tests' word for it:
| Finding | Fix | Verified |
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Capabilities() missing ReadsBody |
added + TestCapabilitiesDeclaresReadsBody |
NeedsBody() now true |
| terminal settle not idempotent | usageState.settled, scratch materialized unconditionally |
6 terminal dispatches → spend/calls unchanged after the first |
headerCost zero-vs-absent |
(cost, present) + isEventStream gate |
all four combinations correct |
| docs buffered-path claim | rewritten around cost source | accurate against RunResponse's unconditional skip |
absent header, json → priced from usage (no authoritative cost)
zero header, json → 0 (genuine free call)
zero header, SSE → priced from usage (streams always report 0)
positive header, SSE → header wins
The settled fix also handled the wrinkle I flagged — materializing the scratch even when no usage frame ever arrived — which is the case that actually matters on the extproc header-only path. CI is green (19 pass, Spellcheck skipped), DCO signed on all four commits.
One new blocker, on plugin.go:203: the flat input_cost_per_token is applied to uncached input, cache writes and cache reads alike, which overstates cached traffic by 4–10×. That was present in the version I first reviewed and I missed it — #814 merging is what sent me back to the pricing math. Details inline, including a docs-only mitigation if you'd rather not expand the config surface now.
Also addressed inline: @coderabbitai's extproc-buffering finding (real mechanism, but pre-existing — I'd resolve it differently than its autofix suggests), and a nit on isEventStream. @evaline-ju's question is answered below.
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@evaline-ju — good question, and the answer isn't obviously "keep them separate".
Reusing pctx.Extensions.Inference would be cleaner in one way that matters: inference-parser is the parser that got the ?beta=true cache-count fix in #811, where prompt tokens were undercounted by ~3,700× because Claude Code puts cache counts on message_delta rather than message_start. Two parsers for one wire format is exactly how that class of fix ends up applied in one place and not the other. And post-#814 the extension carries CacheWriteTokens / CacheReadTokens — which, per the blocking comment on plugin.go:203, is precisely the breakdown this plugin currently needs and doesn't have. Reuse would hand it over for free.
For the record they have not drifted yet: inference-parser's promptTotal() is input + cache_creation + cache_read, this plugin's inputTotal() is those three plus OpenAI's prompt_tokens, and both take the max across frames. Today the token numbers agree.
The cost of reuse is a cross-plugin dependency that fails silently, in two ways:
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Config coupling — cost tracking would record 0 whenever
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Ordering, and it is counter-intuitive —
RunResponseFrameiteratesfor i := len(p.plugins) - 1; i >= 0; i--, i.e. reverse declaration order. For budget-track to read a finalizedExtensions.Inference,inference-parsermust be dispatched first, which means declared last:pipeline: - litellm-budget-track # reads Extensions.Inference - inference-parser # must be declared AFTER in order to run BEFORE
Get that backwards and every request silently costs 0. Nothing in the config surface hints at it.
Also worth knowing: Extensions.Inference is only populated for paths inference-parser recognizes (/v1/messages, /v1/chat/completions, /v1/completions), so a budget plugin fronting anything else gets nothing.
If it were me I'd take the middle path rather than either extreme: prefer Extensions.Inference when populated, fall back to the local parse when it isn't. That gets single-source-of-truth where the pipeline provides it, keeps the plugin standalone, and usefully makes the fallback cover the ordering mistake instead of silently zeroing. Cheap to add later — I wouldn't hold this PR for it.
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must-fix — this prices uncached input, cache writes and cache reads at one flat rate. inputTotal() (line 324) sums InputTokens + CacheCreationInputTokens + CacheReadInputTokens + PromptTokens, and all of it is multiplied by p.cfg.InputCostPerToken.
pipeline/extensions.go:179-185 — from #814, merged two days ago — states the problem directly:
a provider that prices prompt caching charges a premium to write an entry and a steep discount to read one, so two requests with an identical
PromptTokenscan differ by an order of magnitude in price
Using the real Claude Code turn captured in #811 (input_tokens: 9, cache_creation: 3755, cache_read: 30008) and the usual multipliers (uncached 1.0×, cache write 1.25×, cache read 0.1× — exact values vary by provider):
plugin charges (flat 1.0×): 33,772 token-equivalents
actual (1.0 / 1.25 / 0.1×): 7,703.55
overcharge: 4.38×
And 4.38× is the mild case. As a session warms and cache reads come to dominate the prompt, the ratio approaches 10×. The consequence isn't just a wrong number in a ledger — OnRequest rejects with 429 budget.exceeded off that figure, so operators would get cut off four to ten times earlier than their real spend warrants, on exactly the traffic shape the docs name (Claude Code /v1/messages).
Blast radius is bounded, and worth stating: this only affects the usage-fallback path, since LiteLLM's x-litellm-response-cost already accounts for cache tiers correctly and wins when present. But that fallback path is what this PR adds, so it's in scope.
The encouraging part is that usageJSON already parses the three counts separately — only inputTotal() throws the split away. Two routes, both acceptable to me:
- Track the buckets — keep
inputTokens/cacheWriteTokens/cacheReadTokensonusageStateand add optionalcache_write_cost_per_token/cache_read_cost_per_token, defaulting toinput_cost_per_tokenwhen unset so existing config keeps working. Small change; the data is already there. - Docs-only — if you'd rather not grow the config surface in this PR, say plainly in
litellm-budgettrack-plugin.mdthatinput_cost_per_tokenis applied to all prompt tokens including cached ones, so it must be set to a blended rate, and that cached traffic will otherwise overstate spend by up to ~10×. Then file (1) as a follow-up.
I'd rather not push scope creep on you, so option 2 clears this block as far as I'm concerned — the trap is an operator reading "USD per input/prompt token", setting the model's list input price, and getting a 4× overstatement with no warning.
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nit — this is now the third copy of this helper: listener/extproc/server.go, listener/forwardproxy/server.go, and here. There's no exported one to reuse (grep 'func IsEventStream' finds nothing), so the duplication is reasonable — but note the two listener copies take a contentType string while this one takes a *pipeline.Context, so they can drift independently.
Not worth restructuring here. If a fourth copy shows up, a shared helper taking the string is the natural home and this becomes isEventStream(pctx.ResponseHeaders.Get("Content-Type")).
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| header of `0` on a non-streamed response is a genuine free call (cache hit / error) | ||
| and is charged `0` — it is **not** re-priced from usage. | ||
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suggestion (non-blocking) — this is accurate for the forward and reverse proxies, but an operator on the envoy sidecar gets a materially different shape: extproc requests ResponseBodyMode_BUFFERED whenever any plugin declares ReadsBody, so "frame-by-frame" there means re-parsed from an already-buffered body, not incrementally as events arrive — and it's capped at that listener's 1MB maxBodySize.
That's a listener property rather than anything this plugin does (see the note on plugin.go:104), but this page is where someone would look before enabling the plugin on the sidecar. A sentence saves them the surprise:
On the extproc (envoy sidecar) listener, Envoy buffers the whole response body before frames are dispatched, so streamed cost is settled at end-of-response and is subject to that listener's 1MB body cap. The forward and reverse proxies dispatch frames as they arrive.
PR rossoctl#816 blocker (huang195): the streamed usage-fallback path applied a flat input_cost_per_token to uncached input, cache writes, and cache reads alike. Providers price a cache WRITE at a premium and a cache READ at a steep discount, so cache-heavy traffic (Claude Code /v1/messages) was overstated up to ~10× — and that inflated figure drives the 429, cutting operators off far too early. Track the three input tiers separately (usageJSON already parsed them; only inputTotal() collapsed them) and price each at its own rate. New optional config cache_write_cost_per_token / cache_read_cost_per_token default to input_cost_per_token when unset, so existing config is unchanged (flat) and accurate cache pricing is opt-in. Only the usage-fallback path is affected; LiteLLM's x-litellm-response-cost header already accounts for cache tiers and wins when present. Docs: document the cache tiers + the overstatement trap, and the envoy-sidecar buffering behavior (ReadsBody => ResponseBodyMode BUFFERED, 1MB cap) raised by @coderabbitai and @huang195. Tests: TestCacheTierPricing (real cortex#811 turn: input 9 / cache_creation 3755 / cache_read 30008 — asserts per-tier total and that flat would be higher), TestCacheRatesDefaultToInputRate, TestCacheTierParsing, negative cache-rate config rejection. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@us.ibm.com>
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Make settlement state instance-specific.
stateKey stores usageState in the shared pipeline.Context, and plugins.Build permits duplicate litellm-budget-track entries. When two instances process one response, the first sets settled; the second returns before calling accumulate, so its configured ledger misses the response. Store settlement state per BudgetTrack instance or reject duplicate entries. Add a regression test for two configured trackers.
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In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go` around lines 90 -
95, Make settlement tracking instance-specific in BudgetTrack instead of storing
settled in the shared usageState under stateKey, so duplicate
litellm-budget-track plugins each accumulate the response once. Update the
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The cache-tier blocker is properly fixed — option 1, done thoroughly. Verified against d3d1df0 independently rather than relying on the new tests:
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| Per-tier pricing | TestCacheTierPricing asserts the exact total and guards against regression to flat |
| Backward compat | cacheWriteRate() / cacheReadRate() fall back to the input rate — pre-fix behavior preserved for existing config |
| Across frames | the beta-path shape (uncached input in message_start, cache counts only in message_delta) prices correctly: 0.009698550, matching the expected per-tier total |
| Validation | both new rates rejected at Configure when negative |
| Docs | the trap is called out directly (~10× overstatement, trips the 429 that much earlier), plus the envoy-sidecar buffering note |
CI green (19 pass, Spellcheck skipped), DCO signed on all five commits, author suite clean locally on go1.26.5. Approving.
Four non-blocking findings inline. One of them (plugin.go:95) is a regression introduced by the settled flag I asked for in round two — @coderabbitai caught it and it's real, so I've written it up with the fix rather than leaving it as a bot thread. I'm not blocking on it because no in-tree config declares duplicate instances, unlike the extproc listener I did block on; but it's ~3 lines and worth taking before someone writes that config.
Thanks for the end-to-end run against live LiteLLM — a real tiered figure on a streamed /v1/messages with a 0 cost header is the evidence that matters here, and it's more than I asked for.
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Probe output behind the four findings
#1 duplicate instances (both configured, distinct spend files):
instance A (team): spend=0 calls=0 <-- records nothing
instance B (global): spend=0.0003 calls=1
each should be: spend=0.0003 calls=1
#2 OpenAI usage, 9500 of 10000 prompt tokens cached:
{uncached:10000 cacheWrite:0 cacheRead:0 output:50}
#3 beta-path tiers across frames: got=0.009698550 want=0.009698550 (correct, untested)
#4 cache_read_cost_per_token=0 (meaning free), 1000 cache-read tokens => spend=0.001
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suggestion — @coderabbitai is right about this one, and it's my regression: settled was my suggestion in round two, and storing it in the shared stateKey scratch means two litellm-budget-track instances in one pipeline collide. SetState is a flat pctx.Extensions.Custom[key] map whose documented convention is "key should be the plugin's Name()" — which necessarily collides for two instances of the same plugin.
Two instances configured with distinct spend files, driven through one RunResponseFrame sequence:
instance A (team): spend=0 calls=0 <-- records nothing
instance B (global): spend=0.0003 calls=1
each should be: spend=0.0003 calls=1
B is dispatched first (reverse declaration order), settles, and A finds settled == true and no-ops. Before 667b9b9 both accumulated correctly, so this is a regression rather than a pre-existing gap.
Worth noting it's a supported config shape, not a hypothetical: config.PluginEntry carries an id field specifically to differentiate duplicates, and plugins/registry.go:387 documents the duplicated-name case ("requires config.PluginEntry.ID differentiation"). A per-team budget alongside a global one is a reasonable thing to want from a budget plugin.
Plugins don't receive their id — Configure only gets the config blob — so the natural per-instance discriminator is the ledger path, which is already unique per instance (two instances sharing a spend file would be a config error anyway):
// in BudgetTrack, set at the end of Configure:
p.stateKey = "litellm-budget-track/" + p.cfg.SpendFileand use p.stateKey in place of the package const. That also un-shares the token buckets, which is fine — RunResponseFrame dispatches the frame to each instance anyway, so each accumulates its own copy.
Not blocking: nothing in-tree declares duplicates today. But it's a silent zero in a billing plugin, and the fix is three lines.
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@huang195, agreed. The package-level stateKey shares usageState between duplicate BudgetTrack instances. The first dispatched instance sets settled, so the other instance skips its ledger update.
Use an instance field initialized during Configure, such as:
p.stateKey = "litellm-budget-track/" + p.cfg.SpendFileThen use p.stateKey for all pipeline.GetState and pipeline.SetState calls.
Please also add a regression test with two configured instances and distinct spend_file values. The test should drive one terminal frame sequence and verify that both ledgers record the same call and cost.
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suggestion — this is the same class of issue as the cache-tier blocker, one dialect over. OpenAI does report a cache split; it just lives in usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens rather than in sibling fields, and prompt_tokens is the inclusive total. So every cached OpenAI token lands in the uncached bucket at the full rate:
OpenAI usage, 9500 of 10000 prompt tokens cached:
{uncached:10000 cacheWrite:0 cacheRead:0 output:50}
OpenAI discounts cached input (50%, and more on some models), so that's roughly a 2× overstatement on cache-heavy OpenAI traffic — smaller than the ~10× Anthropic case, same mechanism.
The comment above is what I'd fix regardless of whether the pricing follows: "OpenAI's prompt_tokens carries no cache split" isn't quite right, and pipeline/extensions.go says so in as many words — "the OpenAI dialect, which reports cached tokens in a different shape". Someone reading this later will take the comment at face value.
If you do want the pricing too, it's small — add PromptTokensDetails *struct{ CachedTokens int json:"cached_tokens" } to usageJSON, route CachedTokens to the cacheRead bucket, and subtract it from uncachedInput(). Non-blocking either way: Claude Code /v1/messages is the stated target and that path is now correct.
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| // from cortex#811 (input 9, cache_creation 3755, cache_read 30008). | ||
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suggestion — this covers the tiers arriving in a single frame, but the shape that motivated the finding is the one where they arrive across frames: on the ?beta=true Messages path message_start carries only input_tokens and the cache counts show up in message_delta (that's what cortex#811 was about). The max-per-bucket accumulation handles it — I checked:
across-frames tiered: got=0.009698550 want=0.009698550
— so this is a coverage gap rather than a bug. But it's the exact interaction that would break if someone later "simplified" the per-bucket max into a single assignment, and TestCacheTierPricing wouldn't catch that. Two extra frames on this test, or a sibling test, would pin it:
p.OnResponseFrame(ctx, pctx, []byte(`{"type":"message_start","message":{"usage":{"input_tokens":9,"output_tokens":0}}}`), false)
p.OnResponseFrame(ctx, pctx, []byte(`{"type":"message_delta","usage":{"input_tokens":9,"output_tokens":399,"cache_creation_input_tokens":3755,"cache_read_input_tokens":30008}}`), false)
p.OnResponseFrame(ctx, pctx, nil, true)While you're here: the existing frameMessageStart / frameMessageDelta constants carry no cache counts at all, so none of the streaming tests exercise a cached turn end-to-end. Adding the counts to those constants would broaden coverage in one edit — though it would change the expected totals in the tests that use them.
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nit — 0 doubles as the "unset" sentinel, so an operator can't express a genuinely free tier:
cache_read_cost_per_token=0 (meaning free), 1000 cache-read tokens => spend=0.001
They get the uncached input rate instead — a 10× overcharge on exactly the config they wrote to say "don't charge for this". It's self-consistent with the documented "defaults to input_cost_per_token when unset", so this is a design choice rather than a bug, and it doesn't bite Anthropic or Bedrock where cache reads are never free (~0.1×).
It could bite a provider with free implicit caching. *float64 would separate unset from zero properly, but that ripples into Configure validation and the config surface for a case nobody has today — not worth it here. A parenthetical in the docs table ("0 means unset, not free") would close the gap for the cost of a few words.
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The header-only cost tracking merged in #815 works for buffered responses, but
records $0 for the path that matters most — Claude Code (and any
stream:trueclient) hits the Anthropic
/v1/messagesendpoint, which LiteLLM returns astext/event-stream. For a streamed response LiteLLM reports cost0in the responseheader (the total isn't known when headers are sent), so a header-only reader never
sees it. Worse, on the outbound/forward-proxy path a streamed response with a
StreamingResponderin the pipeline never invokesOnResponseat all — exactly thegap raised in the #815 review.
This PR makes
litellm-budget-trackaccount for streamed responses, and applies theoutstanding review feedback from #815.
What changed
Streaming cost accounting (
6d7e19a6)StreamingResponder.OnResponseFrameparses the tokenusageout of the terminal SSE events (Anthropicmessage_start/message_delta/message_stop, and OpenAI's finalusagechunk), accumulatedacross frames via per-request
pipelinestate.(non-streaming), otherwise parsed usage × the configured per-token rates.
input_cost_per_token/output_cost_per_token(USD/token,optional). When unset, streamed responses can't be priced and contribute
0— asafe default that changes nothing for existing non-streaming deployments.
sseframereader strips thedata:prefix, soOnResponseFramereceives thebare JSON payload; the parser decodes bare JSON (and still handles
data:lines).PR #815 review fixes (
d9b26513)strconv.ParseFloataccepts
NaN/+Inf, both slip past a barecost <= 0check, poisonTotalSpendso the budget gate never trips, and break
json.Marshal—saveLedgerthenoverwrote the file with empty data.
accumulate()is now the single chokepointthat drops non-finite/non-positive costs,
headerCost()rejects them (so a garbageheader falls through to the usage path), and
saveLedger()no longer overwrites onmarshal error.
t.Fatalon nilViolation(coderabbitai + clawgenti): the budget test usedt.Errorfthen dereferencedViolationon the next line — a nil would panic. Nowt.Fatals the nil case, then checksStatusandCodeseparately.TestForwardProxyStreamedSSEUpdatesLedgerstands up the real forward proxy with a streamed
text/event-streamupstream andBudgetTrackas aStreamingResponder, drives a request through the proxy, andasserts the ledger moved — the outbound+SSE+StreamingResponder combination that
direct-call unit tests structurally cannot cover ("it would fail today").
reaches cost accounting only via
OnResponseFramebecause the plugin is aStreamingResponder.Testing
20 unit + integration tests, including:
TestForwardProxyStreamedSSEUpdatesLedger— end-to-end through the forward proxy.TestPipelineDetectsStreamingResponder— the built pipeline recognizes the pluginas a
StreamingResponder(guards the wrapper path).TestStreamingPricesFromUsage/TestStreamingBareFrames/TestParseFrameUsage*.TestNonFiniteCostRejected— NaN/Inf/±Inf leave the ledger and its file clean.Verified end-to-end against a real LiteLLM proxy via
rossoctl authbridge exec:claude -p "say hello"recorded a streamed-response cost reproducibly (header-onlyrecorded
$0), and per-agentspend_fileisolation + the429 budget.exceededrejection both hold.
Notes
read first; per-token rates only affect streamed responses when set).
main.Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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