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tokeneff: An Open-Source LLM Cost Meter That Runs Locally
Community description: Most LLM dashboards show you the bill after the damage is done. You run a coding agent for an...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | nio_zang@hotmail.com zang
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This is the problem we kept hitting, so we built tokeneff — an open-source CLI that puts a real-time electricity meter on your LLM API spend. tokeneff runs a tiny local proxy on localhost:7860. Here's where tokeneff fits: The killer feature. Building tokeneff as part of a broader open-source LLM gateway stack.
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