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Usage and Cost Management

Pydantic2 provides comprehensive usage tracking and cost management capabilities through two main components:

Overview

  1. Model Pricing
  2. Model price management
  3. Budget control
  4. Cost calculation

  5. Price updates

  6. Request Tracking

  7. Request lifecycle
  8. Usage monitoring
  9. Performance tracking
  10. Usage analysis

Basic Example

from pydantic2 import PydanticAIClient

# Initialize client with usage tracking
client = PydanticAIClient(
    model_name="openai/gpt-4",
    client_id="my_app",
    user_id="user123",
    max_budget=10.0  # Optional budget limit
)

# Make API calls...
response = client.generate(...)

# Get usage statistics
stats = client.get_usage_stats()
print(f"Total cost: ${stats['total_cost']:.4f}")

Detailed Documentation

See Model Pricing and Request Tracking for detailed information about each component.