Count Tokens
curl --request POST \
--url https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokensimport requests
url = "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens"
response = requests.post(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'POST'};
fetch('https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyClaude Messages
Count Tokens
POST /v1/messages/count_tokens — estimate token count without billing
POST
/
v1
/
messages
/
count_tokens
Count Tokens
curl --request POST \
--url https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokensimport requests
url = "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens"
response = requests.post(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'POST'};
fetch('https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyEstimate the token count before actually calling
The fields are the same as
/v1/messages, useful for:
- Checking in advance whether you’ll exceed the context window.
- Precisely estimating cost in batch jobs.
- Showing the token count on the client.
Request
curl https://openp.ai/v1/messages/count_tokens \
-H "x-api-key: $OPENPAI_API_KEY" \
-H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "claude-opus-4-8",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
}'
/v1/messages (can include system / tools / messages),
and you don’t need to provide generation parameters like max_tokens.
Response
{ "input_tokens": 9 }
Billing
Thecount_tokens endpoint doesn’t consume model quota, but it is still subject to the OpenPAI gateway’s RPM rate limiting.