Anthropic Token Counter via Locus x402

Name: Anthropic Token Counter via Locus x402
Price: 0.001 USD

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Anthropic Token Counter via Locus x402 is a paid API for AI agents from anthropic.x402.paywithlocus.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Counts the number of tokens that would be consumed by a given set of messages, system prompt, and tools for a specified Claude model, without sending a chat completion.

Price / call$0.001

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How this service works

Claude AI models — chat completions, vision, document processing, extended thinking, and tool use.

Output

Returns a token count for the specified model given the provided messages, system prompt, and tool definitions. The response includes a data object with the count result, a payment record showing 0.001 USDC settled, and a request tracking ID with a status URL.

Example use cases

Pre-flight context window check

“Count the tokens for this message thread I'm about to send to claude-3-opus-20240229 — I want to make sure it fits within the context window before I actually call it.”

Tool definition token budgeting

“How many tokens will my system prompt and these five tool definitions consume when used with claude-3-5-haiku-20241022? I need to know how much room I have left for user messages.”

Prompt engineering cost audit

“I have a few different versions of my system prompt — can you run the token counter on each one using claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 so I can pick the most token-efficient version?”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://anthropic.x402.paywithlocus.com/anthropic/count-tokens

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when you need to pre-check token consumption before committing to a full Claude chat completion call — ideal for cost estimation, context window validation, and prompt optimization workflows. Prefer this over making a full completion call when you only need token counts and want to avoid generating output. Particularly useful when iterating on system prompts or tool definitions and needing to stay within context limits.

Side effects

Invalid or unsupported model ID returns an error
Malformed messages array (missing required fields) causes a 400-level error
Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance causes the call to be rejected
Messages exceed maximum allowed size for the token counting endpoint
Missing required 'model' field results in validation error

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
model	string
tools	array
system	—
messages	array

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "data": {},
    "payment": {
      "scheme": "exact",
      "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
      "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
    },
    "request": {
      "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
    },
    "success": true
  }
}

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How this service works

Claude AI models — chat completions, vision, document processing, extended thinking, and tool use.

Output

Example use cases

Pre-flight context window check

“Count the tokens for this message thread I'm about to send to claude-3-opus-20240229 — I want to make sure it fits within the context window before I actually call it.”

Tool definition token budgeting

“How many tokens will my system prompt and these five tool definitions consume when used with claude-3-5-haiku-20241022? I need to know how much room I have left for user messages.”

Prompt engineering cost audit

“I have a few different versions of my system prompt — can you run the token counter on each one using claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 so I can pick the most token-efficient version?”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://anthropic.x402.paywithlocus.com/anthropic/count-tokens

When to prefer

Side effects

Invalid or unsupported model ID returns an error
Malformed messages array (missing required fields) causes a 400-level error
Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance causes the call to be rejected
Messages exceed maximum allowed size for the token counting endpoint
Missing required 'model' field results in validation error

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
model	string
tools	array
system	—
messages	array

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "json",
  "example": {
    "data": {},
    "payment": {
      "scheme": "exact",
      "settledUsdc": "0.001000",
      "authorizedMaxUsdc": "0.001000"
    },
    "request": {
      "id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
      "statusUrl": "/requests/00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000"
    },
    "success": true
  }
}