APIClaw [beta] Anthropic Messages Token Counting API
The [beta] Anthropic Messages Token Counting API from APIClaw — 1 operation(s) for [beta] anthropic messages token counting.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: LiteLLM [beta] Anthropic Messages Token Counting API
description: 'Proxy Server to call 100+ LLMs in the OpenAI format. **Customize Swagger Docs**
👉 ```LiteLLM Admin Panel on /ui```. Create, Edit Keys with SSO. Having issues? Try ```Fallback Login```
💸 ```LiteLLM Model Cost Map```.
🔎 ```LiteLLM Model Hub```. See available models on the proxy. **Docs**'
version: 1.105.1
tags:
- name: '[beta] Anthropic Messages Token Counting'
paths:
/v1/messages/count_tokens:
post:
tags:
- '[beta] Anthropic Messages Token Counting'
summary: Count Tokens
description: 'Count tokens for Anthropic Messages API format.
This endpoint follows the Anthropic Messages API token counting specification.
It accepts the same parameters as the /v1/messages endpoint but returns
token counts instead of generating a response.
Example usage:
```
curl -X POST "http://localhost:4000/v1/messages/count_tokens?beta=true" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer your-key" -d ''{
"model": "claude-3-sonnet-20240229",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello Claude!"}]
}''
```
Returns: {"input_tokens": }'
operationId: count_tokens_v1_messages_count_tokens_post
responses:
'200':
description: Successful Response
content:
application/json:
schema: {}
security:
- APIKeyHeader: []
components:
securitySchemes:
APIKeyHeader:
type: apiKey
description: Bearer token
in: header
name: x-litellm-api-key
HTTPBearer:
type: http
scheme: bearer