Count Anthropic Tokens

Count input tokens for an Anthropic-format request without running the model.

POST /v3/v1/messages/count_tokens

Count Anthropic Tokens

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.edenai.run/v3/v1/messages/count_tokens \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "model": "<string>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "content": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "system": "<string>",
  "tools": [
    {}
  ],
  "tool_choice": {}
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.edenai.run/v3/v1/messages/count_tokens"

payload = {
    "model": "<string>",
    "messages": [{ "content": "<string>" }],
    "system": "<string>",
    "tools": [{}],
    "tool_choice": {}
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    model: '<string>',
    messages: [{content: '<string>'}],
    system: '<string>',
    tools: [{}],
    tool_choice: {}
  })
};

fetch('https://api.edenai.run/v3/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://api.edenai.run/v3/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",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'model' => '<string>',
    'messages' => [
        [
                'content' => '<string>'
        ]
    ],
    'system' => '<string>',
    'tools' => [
        [
                
        ]
    ],
    'tool_choice' => [
        
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.edenai.run/v3/v1/messages/count_tokens"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"model\": \"<string>\",\n  \"messages\": [\n    {\n      \"content\": \"<string>\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"system\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tools\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"tool_choice\": {}\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.edenai.run/v3/v1/messages/count_tokens")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"model\": \"<string>\",\n  \"messages\": [\n    {\n      \"content\": \"<string>\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"system\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tools\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"tool_choice\": {}\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.edenai.run/v3/v1/messages/count_tokens")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"model\": \"<string>\",\n  \"messages\": [\n    {\n      \"content\": \"<string>\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"system\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tools\": [\n    {}\n  ],\n  \"tool_choice\": {}\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "input_tokens": 123
}

{
  "detail": [
    {
      "loc": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "msg": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>"
    }
  ]
}

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json

Body for /v1/messages/count_tokens — same fields as messages but max_tokens is optional.

model · string · required

messages · AnthropicMessage · object[] · required

Show child attributes

system · string System · object[]

tools · Tools · object[] | null

tool_choice · Tool Choice · object | null

Response

200

application/json

Successful Response

Response body for POST /v1/messages/count_tokens.

input_tokens · integer · required

Number of input tokens the request would consume.