Lago launches Agent SDK to automate AI token usage tracking and billing
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Raffi Sarkissian
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Summary
Lago released an Agent SDK (Python and TypeScript) that wraps LLM clients to automatically extract and send token usage data to Lago for billing. The article argues that every team shipping AI features has been building the same token-extraction middleware, and Lago's SDK eliminates this redundant work by handling the "token plumbing" so developers can focus on their actual product.
Key quotes
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All of them ended up writing token-extraction middleware.
The middleware is the same job, repeated everywhere.
The point is what you stop doing.
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