BurnRate

Estimate execution cost

Estimates total LLM cost for a multi-step agent plan. Returns per-step cost breakdown, total, and optimization suggestions. Costs 1 credit.

post/api/burnrate/estimate

Request

  • Base URL: https://plith.ai
  • URL: https://plith.ai/api/burnrate/estimate
  • Auth: none required

Request body

Example request

{
  "plan": [
    {
      "provider": "anthropic",
      "model": "claude-sonnet-4-6",
      "estimated_input_tokens": 1000,
      "estimated_output_tokens": 500
    }
  ]
}

Response

Cost estimate with per-step breakdown

optimization_suggestionsstring[]
cross_productobject
request_idstring
credits_usedinteger
credits_remaininginteger
fallback_behaviorstring

Example response

{
  "estimate": {
    "steps": [
      {
        "cost_usd_formatted": "$0.03"
      }
    ],
    "total_cost_usd_formatted": "$1.47",
    "pricing_source": "litellm"
  },
  "credits_used": 1,
  "fallback_behavior": "proceed_without_estimate"
}

Changes

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