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>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBudgetTrack now supports streamed SSE cost accounting. It parses terminal usage frames, applies configured per-token rates when headers are absent, preserves header precedence, rejects invalid costs, and integrates with the forward proxy streaming pipeline. ChangesBudgetTrack streaming accounting
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Streamed responses are now priced and added to the budget ledger, but invalid token-rate configuration can still make streamed usage record zero, and concurrent streams may exceed the configured limit before their final costs settle. These merge-readiness risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. 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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Summary
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
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 3 commits, all signed-off: yes
CI status: passing (19 checks green, Spellcheck skipped)
How the findings were verified
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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Why
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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