Laravel AI Guard 🛡️💰🤖 - Control and optimize AI costs in Laravel AI SDK applications 🚀 Track OpenAI & LLM token usage 📊, estimate AI costs before execution ⚠️, enforce AI budgets 🧾, and prevent unexpected billing spikes in production 💥.

LLM budget control and cost governance for AI agents. Python library for token budgets, usage limits and guardrails for OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, LangGraph and agentic systems.

Example showing how to control OpenAI API costs using the shekel Python library

Example showing how to enforce LLM budgets on LangChain using the shekel Python library

Example showing how to control Anthropic API costs using the shekel Python library

Example showing how to enforce LLM budgets on LangGraph agents using the shekel Python library

Before/after examples comparing LLM usage with and without shekel budget enforcement