openai-cost

Utilities to estimate OpenAI API call costs from response.usage, plus a fetch wrapper to track each OpenAI call.

This folder currently provides:

• OpenAiCostCalculator: computes USD cost for one call.
• OpenAICallTracker: wraps fetch so you can process each API response in a callback.

What It Solves

• Convert OpenAI usage tokens into per-call USD cost.
• Handle cached input tokens (when pricing supports cache discounts).
• Support pricing tiers via priorityType: batch, flex, standard, priority.
• Track costs per bucket/team/project with a callback-based fetch wrapper.

Install

From this folder:

npm install

Project dependency currently used here:

• @jeromeetienne/openai-cache

Examples also use:

• openai
• cacheable
• @keyv/sqlite
• chalk (comparator example)

Quick Start: Cost Per Response

import OpenAI from "openai";
import { OpenAiCostCalculator } from "../src/openai_cost_calculator";

const openaiClient = new OpenAI();

const modelName = "gpt-4.1-nano";
const response = await openaiClient.responses.create({
	model: modelName,
	input: "say hello",
});

const usage = response.usage!;
const cost = await OpenAiCostCalculator.calculateCost(modelName, usage);

console.log(cost);
// {
//   inputCost: number,
//   cacheInputCost: number,
//   outputCost: number,
//   totalCost: number
// }

API

OpenAiCostCalculator.calculateCost(modelName, usage, priorityType?)

Signature:

calculateCost(
	modelName: string,
	openaiUsage: OpenAI.Responses.ResponseUsage,
	priorityType: "batch" | "flex" | "standard" | "priority" = "standard"
): Promise<OpenAiCostResponse>

Returns:

• inputCost: input token cost in USD
• cacheInputCost: cached input token cost in USD
• outputCost: output token cost in USD
• totalCost: total USD cost

Behavior notes:

• Normalizes date-suffixed models such as gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-4o.
• Handles special pricing split for:
  • gpt-5.4 (<272K vs >272K context length)
  • gpt-5.4-pro (<272K vs >272K context length)
• Throws if no pricing is found for the model.

OpenAICallTracker.getFetchFn(trackerCallback, options?)

Signature:

getFetchFn(
	trackerCallback: (bucketId: string, response: Response) => Promise<void>,
	options?: {
		bucketId?: string;
		originalFetch?: (input: RequestInfo, init?: RequestInit) => Promise<Response>;
	}
): Promise<(input: RequestInfo, init?: RequestInit) => Promise<Response>>

Behavior:

• Calls the provided originalFetch (default: global fetch).
• Clones the response and passes it to trackerCallback(bucketId, response.clone()).
• Returns the original response untouched.

Running The Included Examples

From contribs/openai-cost:

npm run sample:basic
npm run sample:comparator
npm run sample:tracker

What they show:

• examples/openai_cost_example.ts: one call, print usage and cost.
• examples/openai_cost_comparator.ts: compare cost per call across multiple models.
• examples/openai_cost_tracker_example.ts: combine cache + tracker callback + persisted sample DB.

Tracker + Cache Pattern

openai_cost_tracker_example.ts demonstrates:

• wrapping @jeromeetienne/openai-cache fetch with OpenAICallTracker,
• grouping tracked costs by bucketId,
• splitting spending into spent (live calls) and saved (cache hits),
• persisting tracked totals to JSON.

Pricing Table

Pricing is hardcoded in:

• src/openai_cost_calculator.ts (pricingPerModel)

Update that object when OpenAI pricing changes.

Caveats

• Cost results are estimates based on the local pricing table.
• Unknown/new model names will throw until added to pricingPerModel.
• The calculator currently mutates model pricing values when priorityType is not standard; if you call it repeatedly with mixed priorities in one process, results can drift. If you need strict correctness, clone pricing values before applying priority multipliers.

License

MIT