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24 alternatives to Token Guard

Local LLM gateway & cost tracker

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Tokenwise▲143
A smart LLM proxy that shows where you're overpaying
Jun 2026 · tokenwisehq.com · its alternatives →
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Inferock Bench▲295
Local LLM cost-tracking proxy for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and pinned OpenRouter calls with token usage, failure, and billing-integrity receipts. - inferock/inferock-bench
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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llm-cost-guard▲2
Stop runaway LLM API spend before it happens
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Token price calculator for 400+ LLMs▲268
Hey HN! Tokencost is a utility library for estimating LLM costs. There are hundreds of different models now, and they all have their own pricing schemes. It’s difficult to keep up with the pricing changes, and it’s even more difficult to estimate how much your prompts and completions will cost until you see the bill. Tokencost works by counting the number of tokens in prompt and completion messages and multiplying that number by the corresponding model cost. Under the hood, it’s really just a simple cost dictionary and some utility functions for getting the prices right. It also accounts for…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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TokenGuard▲3
See what every AI feature costs you — in real time
Jun 2026 · tokenguards.com · its alternatives →
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TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken▲281
TokenDagger is a drop-in replacement for OpenAI’s Tiktoken (the tokenizer behind Llama 3, Mistral, GPT-3.*, etc.). It’s written in C++ 17 with thin Python bindings, keeps the exact same BPE vocab/special-token rules, and focuses on raw speed. I’m teaching myself LLM internals by re-implementing the stack from first principles. Profiling TikToken’s Python/Rust implementation showed a lot of time was spent doing regex matching. Most of my perf gains come from a) using a faster jit-compiled regex engine; and b) simplifying the algorithm to forego regex matching special tokens at all.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free LLM API▲86
Access 1 billion tokens per month for free
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending▲218
I built this out of curiosity about what Claude Code was actually sending to the API. Turns out, watching your tokens tick up in real-time is oddly satisfying. Sherlock sits between your LLM tools and the API, showing you every request with a live dashboard, and auto-saved copies of every prompt as markdown and json.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Breadcrumb▲163
Open-source LLM tracing for agent visibility
Mar 2026 · breadcrumb.sh · its alternatives →
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LLM Pricing▲178
LLMs price comparison tool developed and updated by LLM
2024 · ailesson.io · its alternatives →
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LLM Token Counter▲3
Estimate prompt cost before you call the LLM API
May 2026 · singhajit.com · its alternatives →
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AI Cost Guard▲2
Monitor every LLM API call and cost in real time
Mar 2026 · aicostguard.com · its alternatives →
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Tokenomy.ai▲105
See your LLM token bill before you hit send.
2025 · tokenomy.ai · its alternatives →
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Lakera Guard▲131
Protect your LLM applications with a few lines of code.
2023 · lakera.ai · its alternatives →
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OneGlanse▲77
Free open-source GEO tracker for LLM visibility
Apr 2026 · oneglanse.com · its alternatives →
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Open Source LLM Performance Tracker▲28
An open source Next app template to monitor your AI apps
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An unmetered LLM API–$6/month, no token tracking, no limits▲12
Hi HN, I was once given the advice: Don't waste expensive frontier model credits (GPT/Claude/etc.) on bulk work. Send the boring, repetitive, high-volume jobs to a smaller model, and save the expensive prompts for when you actually need frontier-level reasoning. I complained and told my manager that I shouldnt have to think about using certain models for certain coding tasks, and that one model should handle everything. Well, here we are anyway. If anyone needs a place to absolutely abuse an LLM with high-volume tasks, come beat ours up at https://yolo-auto.com. Here are…
Jul 2026 · yolo-auto.com · its alternatives →
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LLM Ops Toolkit by Lamatic.ai▲96
Aggregate uptime monitoring across OpenAI, Claude, and more
Apr 2026 · tools.lamatic.ai · its alternatives →
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Afford AI▲11
Track LLM usage, costs & tokens with real-time insights.
2025 · affordai.io · its alternatives →
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Tiktokenizer▲61
Track your users' AI token usage through an API
2023 · its alternatives →
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Free Token counter▲8
toolify100.com is a collection of tools
2025 · freetokencounter.com · its alternatives →
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Token Diet▲2
Free prompt token counter and optimizer - cut LLM API costs
Jun 2026 · ranker.co.za · its alternatives →
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TokenScope▲1
Real-time, privacy-first monitoring of your LLM API usage
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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tokmon – CLI to monitor your program's OpenAI token costs▲11
CLI to monitor your program's OpenAI API token usage. - yagil/tokmon
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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