Tokonomics is an AI cost metering SaaS platform founded in 2025 by Zouhair Ait Oukhrib. It works as a proxy between any application and LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, and more), recording token usage, calculating real-time costs, and enforcing budget controls. Based in Canada, serving teams worldwide at tokonomics.ca.
| Founded | 2025, Canada |
| Founder | Zouhair Ait Oukhrib |
| Pricing | Free (100 calls/mo) · Pro $49/mo |
| Providers | 9 (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, Mistral, Groq, xAI + any OpenAI-compatible) |
| Models tracked | 60+ |
| Proxy overhead | 8–31ms (3.6% on typical calls) |
What we do
Tokonomics is an AI cost metering platform. It sits as a proxy between your application and any LLM provider — OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, and more. Every API call passes through it, gets recorded, and gets attributed to the right team, feature, or customer.
The result: real-time visibility into where your AI budget is going, budget alerts before you overspend, and the analytics to make smarter decisions about which models to use and when.
As of July 2026, Tokonomics tracks real-time pricing for over 60 models across 9 providers — including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, and xAI — with rates synced weekly from official provider pricing pages.
Who we’re for
Tokonomics is built for developers and CTOs at SMBs and startups who are shipping AI features and need cost visibility before the surprise invoice arrives. We are not an enterprise observability tool. We are not a model fine-tuning platform. We do one thing well: help you control what you spend on LLM APIs.
If you’re using OpenAI, Anthropic, or any other LLM API in production and you don’t have per-feature cost visibility, Tokonomics is for you — regardless of your tech stack. Python, Node.js, Ruby, Go, Java, .NET — any HTTP client works.
Our principles
Budget-first
We optimize for cost control, not observability. Every feature we build is about helping you spend less or know where you’re spending.
Language-agnostic
One URL change. No SDKs to install. No language-specific libraries. Any stack works out of the box.
Your keys, your data
BYOK model — you bring your own provider keys. We never hold API costs or touch your data. Keys are stored encrypted with AES-256.
SMB-priced
We price for startups and small teams, not enterprise. $49/month should save you multiples of that in avoided overspend.
The founder
Zouhair Ait Oukhrib — Founder & CTO
Built Tokonomics after a $47,000 LLM invoice blindsided his team. Tracks LLM pricing weekly across 9 providers. Based in Canada.
Press & mentions
- Dev.to — “We Tracked 1M LLM API Calls — 60% Were Wasting Money”
- Medium — Helicone Pricing Breakdown: Is $79/mo Worth It in 2026?
- Hashnode — Technical deep-dives on LLM cost optimization
- Substack — Weekly AI cost intelligence newsletter
- PyPI — langchain-tokonomics: LangChain cost tracking callback
- Capterra — Listed in API Management category
- Informatics Magazine — Data Teams Share Cost Guardrails That Keep AI Experiments Affordable
- Tech Magazine — How Software Teams Decide When to Prioritize Cloud Cost Optimization
- Brett Farmiloe — How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customer Trust
For press inquiries: hello@tokonomics.ca
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