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ilan lachkar
ilan lachkar

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I built a CLI that estimates LLM API cost before you send the request

I kept overrunning my Anthropic/OpenAI budget by guessing token counts
before sending big prompts. So I built llm-tokencheck, a free CLI
that estimates tokens + USD cost for a file or text across Anthropic,
OpenAI and Google models before you make the API call.

 ```bash
 npm install -g llm-tokencheck
 tokencheck myfile.txt
 ```
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 It prints a cost table across models so you can pick the cheapest one
 that fits, or just sanity-check a big request before sending it.

 There's an optional $9 Pro license (`--activate`) that unlocks batch
 processing of a whole folder + CSV export โ€” useful if you're auditing
 costs across a codebase or a dataset.

 - GitHub: https://github.com/ilan-lachkar/llm-tokencheck
 - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-tokencheck

 Feedback welcome, especially on pricing accuracy for newer models.
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