Log every LLM call with tokens, cost, latency, and time to first token
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Hi HN,Llmtee is a lightweight llm proxy. I built this project because I needed a simple way to log llm calls across my agents.Existing options require running Postgres, ClickHouse and Redis, or have me use an SDK. llmtree is just a single binary. You point your provider base url to llmtee, it will pass the traffic through chunk by chunk and log the usage to an SQLite database (or optionally Postgres).The container image is ~25 MB. Memory footprint is around ~40 MB and added latency is ~0.2 ms.
HN · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 40%) · 0 views
Niche: ai token and inference cost trackers · 82 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- AI-native
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Yes An OpenAI-compatible reverse proxy that logs tokens, cost, latency and time-to-first-token is a well-scoped streaming proxy with a lightweight embedded store, which is squarely within vibe-coding range.
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Competitors mentioned: cliproxy, ClickHouse
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Attention rank: #44 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 375 days after the earliest competitor.
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