Custom LLM Token Counting

This guide shows how to get your custom functions to have their token count tracked by LangSmith. The key is to coerce your inputs and outputs to conform with a minimal version OpenAI's API format. We will review adding support for both chat models (llms that expect a list of chat messages as inputs and return with a chat message) and completion models (models that expect a string as input and return a string).

note

This guide assumes you are using the traceable decorator, though the same principles can be applied to other tracing methods.

Chat Models (messages in, message out)

For chat models, your inputs must contain a list of messages as input. The output must return an object that, when serialized, contains the key choices with a list of dicts. Each dict must contain the key message with a dict value. The message dict must contain the key content with a string value and the key role.

from langsmith import traceable

@traceable(run_type="llm")
def my_chat_model(messages: list):
    return {
        "choices": [
            {
                "message": {
                    "content": "hello, " + messages[1]["content"],
                    "role": "assistant",
                }
            }
        ]
    }

# Usage
my_chat_model(
    [
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a bot."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "SolidGoldMagikarp"},
    ]
)

You can configure the model and other arguments as well. The model key is used to match cost information:

@traceable(run_type="llm")
def my_chat_model_with_model(messages: list, model: str):
    return {
        "choices": [
            {
                "message": {
                    "content": "hello, " + messages[1]["content"],
                    "role": "assistant",
                }
            }
        ]
    }

my_chat_model_with_model(
    [
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a bot."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "SolidGoldMagikarp"},
    ],
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
)

Streaming

For streaming, you can "reduce" the outputs into the same format as the non-streaming version:

def _reduce_chunks(chunks: list):
    all_text = "".join([chunk["choices"][0]["message"]["content"] for chunk in chunks])
    return {"choices": [{"message": {"content": all_text, "role": "assistant"}}]}

@traceable(run_type="llm", reduce_fn=_reduce_chunks)
def my_streaming_chat_model(messages: list, model: str):
    for chunk in ["hello, " + messages[1]["content"]]:
        yield {
            "choices": [
                {
                    "message": {
                        "content": chunk,
                        "role": "assistant",
                    }
                }
            ]
        }

list(
    my_streaming_chat_model(
        [
            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a bot."},
            {"role": "user", "content": "SolidGoldMagikarp but streaming"},
        ],
        model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    )
)

Note: Tool calling and other messages are also supported, following the OpenAI format.

Manually Providing Token Counts

By default, LangSmith uses tiktoken to count tokens, using our best guess at the model's tokenizer based on the model parameter you provide. To manually provide token counts, you can add a usage key to the function's response, containing a dictionary with the keys prompt_tokens, completion_tokens, and total_tokens. You must also add batch_size=1 to the extra dictionary in the run_tree.extra object.

from langsmith.run_helpers import get_current_run_tree

@traceable(run_type="llm")
def my_chat_model_with_usage(messages: list, model: str = "gpt-3.5-turbo"):
    run_tree = get_current_run_tree()
    run_tree.extra["batch_size"] = 1
    return {
        "choices": [
            {
                "message": {
                    "content": "hello, " + messages[1]["content"],
                    "role": "assistant",
                }
            }
        ],
        "usage": {
            "prompt_tokens": 9_999,
            "completion_tokens": 32,
            "total_tokens": 10_031,
        },
    }

my_chat_model_with_usage(
    messages=[
        {"role": "system", "content": "You are a bot."},
        {"role": "user", "content": "SolidGoldMagikarp but with usage"},
    ],
)

This is also supported via streaming:

def _reduce_chunks_with_usage(chunks: list):
    all_text = "".join(
        [
            chunk["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
            for chunk in chunks
            if "choices" in chunk
        ]
    )
    usages = [chunk["usage"] for chunk in chunks if "usage" in chunk]
    usage = {}
    if usages:
        total_tokens = sum([usage["total_tokens"] for usage in usages])
        prompt_tokens = sum([usage["prompt_tokens"] for usage in usages])
        completion_tokens = sum([usage["completion_tokens"] for usage in usages])
        usage = {
            "prompt_tokens": prompt_tokens,
            "completion_tokens": completion_tokens,
            "total_tokens": total_tokens,
        }
    return {
        "choices": [{"message": {"content": all_text, "role": "assistant"}}],
        "usage": usage,
    }

@traceable(run_type="llm", reduce_fn=_reduce_chunks_with_usage)
def my_streaming_chat_model_with_usage(messages: list, model: str = "gpt-3.5-turbo"):
    run_tree = get_current_run_tree()
    run_tree.extra["batch_size"] = 1
    for chunk in ["hello, " + messages[1]["content"]]:
        yield {
            "choices": [
                {
                    "message": {
                        "content": chunk,
                        "role": "assistant",
                    }
                }
            ],
        }
    yield {
        "usage": {
            "prompt_tokens": 9_999,
            "completion_tokens": 32,
            "total_tokens": 10_031,
        }
    }

list(
    my_streaming_chat_model_with_usage(
        messages=[
            {"role": "system", "content": "You are a bot."},
            {"role": "user", "content": "SolidGoldMagikarp but with usage"},
        ]
    )
)

Completion Models (string in, string out)

For completion models, your inputs must contain a key prompt with a string value. Other inputs are also permitted. The output must return an object that, when serialized, contains the key choices with a list of dicts. Each dict must contain the key text with a string value.

@traceable(run_type="llm")
def my_llm(prompt: str):
    return {"choices": [{"text": "hello, " + prompt}]}

my_llm("SolidGoldMagikarp")

If you want to add additional "invocation params" such as the model name, you can just add those keys. The model key can be used to let the cost estimator know which model is being used.

@traceable(run_type="llm")
def my_llm_with_model(prompt: str, model: str):
    return {"choices": [{"text": "hello, " + prompt}]}

my_llm_with_model("SolidGoldMagikarp", model="gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct")

For streaming, you can "reduce" the outputs into the same format as the non-streaming version:

def _reduce_chunks(chunks: list):
    all_text = "".join([chunk["choices"][0]["text"] for chunk in chunks])
    return {"choices": [{"text": all_text}]}

@traceable(run_type="llm", reduce_fn=_reduce_chunks)
def my_streaming_llm(prompt: str, model: str):
    for chunk in ["hello, " + prompt]:
        yield {"choices": [{"text": chunk}]}

list(my_streaming_llm("SolidGoldMagikarp but streaming", model="gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct"))

Custom LLM Token Counting

Chat Models (messages in, message out)​

Streaming​

Manually Providing Token Counts​

Completion Models (string in, string out)​

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Chat Models (messages in, message out)

Streaming

Manually Providing Token Counts

Completion Models (string in, string out)