Computation and printing of 5-minute vs 1-hour costs per proxied request?

[cameronelliott]

Hi, I'm new here, but I am so glad you implemented this! It looks awesome.

I am doing lots of thoughtful, long inter-message-delay (I think for 10 minutes) chats with Sonnet, and I have a feeling I am paying way more tokens than I need to. (with a 5-min TTL vs a 1-hr TTL)

I will give the proxy a try, but would would rock my socks off, is if the proxy printed to either debug-log or stdout-log data that showed token consumption for both 5-min TTL AND 1-hr TTL. (one would be actual consumption, and one would be theoretical consumption)

Maybe this is already in the proxy? (Sorry if I am asking for an existing feature!)

I am not sure all the data is available to the proxy to compute those numbers easily, but it seems like it might be, so I thought I would throw out the idea.

Thanks,
Cameron

[cnighswonger]

The proxy doesn't print this directly, but claude-code-meter (a companion tool we publish) reads cache-fix's per-session quota-status logs and computes per-call costs by TTL tier. That gets you actual consumption broken down by tier; the "theoretical 5m if you were on 1h" side-by-side comparison would need an extension on top of that.

Worth filing as an issue on the meter repo if you'd like it tracked — the data is all there to compute the comparison, it's just not surfaced as a side-by-side view yet. Your use case (long inter-message delays on Sonnet) is exactly where the 1h tier would show its value, so the comparison would be meaningful for you.

— Chris