Laravel AI Usage

Tracks the tokens and cost of every laravel/ai call in your application and shows them on a filterable dashboard. Usage is recorded automatically from the laravel/ai events, priced with a model price list synced from OpenRouter, and attributed to a feature, a subject (any Eloquent model) and a user. The pages are standalone Livewire pages that ship their own compiled CSS, so they work without your application's Tailwind build.

• Records agent prompts and streams, embeddings, images, transcriptions, reranking and failovers.
• Prices every call when it is recorded (input, cached input, cache write and output tokens) and keeps the rates used.
• A dashboard with a chart of cost, tokens or requests (per hour, day or month) and breakdowns, a record list with filters, sorting and CSV export, a detail page per call, and a model list with a sync button.
• Budgets per day, week or month, with an event and an optional mail.
• Prompt and response text are not stored unless you enable it.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• Laravel 12 or 13, Livewire 4
• laravel/ai 0.9 or newer, including 1.x

Installation

composer require spaanproductions/laravel-ai-usage

Publish the migrations and run them. The ai_models table (the price list) has its own tag, so skip it if your application already has that table:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-usage-migrations
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-usage-models-migrations
php artisan migrate

Sync the AI models and their prices. Every provider with an API key in config/ai.php is synced, plus the public OpenRouter catalogue, which is always included:

php artisan ai-usage:sync-models

Allow access to the pages by defining the gate, for example in AppServiceProvider::boot(). Until you do, the package denies everyone:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate;

Gate::define('viewAiUsage', fn ($user): bool => $user->isAdmin());

The dashboard is now available at /ai-usage.

Schedule the price sync and, if you configure a retention period, the pruning, in routes/console.php:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schedule;
use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Models\AiUsageRecord;
use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Console\Commands\SyncAiModelsCommand;

Schedule::command(SyncAiModelsCommand::class)->weekly();
Schedule::command('model:prune', ['--model' => [AiUsageRecord::class]])->daily();

Configuration

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-usage-config

Attributing usage

Every laravel/ai call is recorded without any code. To know what the cost belongs to, give your agents a feature and link calls to the record they were made for.

Implement ProvidesAiUsageContext on an agent to set its feature. Without it, the agent's class name in snake_case is used:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Contracts\ProvidesAiUsageContext;

class InvoiceReader implements Agent, ProvidesAiUsageContext
{
    use Promptable;

    public function aiUsageFeature(): string
    {
        return 'invoice_reading';
    }

    public function aiUsageSubject(): ?Model
    {
        return null;
    }
}

Wrap a call in AiUsage::context() to link it to a subject, override the feature or user, or add metadata. Contexts can be nested, with the inner values winning, and the callback's return value is passed through:

use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Facades\AiUsage;

$response = AiUsage::context(
    fn () => (new InvoiceReader())->prompt($text),
    subject: $invoice,
);

AiUsage::context(fn () => $this->importAll(), feature: 'bulk_import', user: $user, metadata: ['batch' => 7]);

The user defaults to the authenticated user. In queued jobs there is none, so pass it to the context when it matters.

Add the HasAiUsage trait to a subject model to get its usage and cost:

use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Concerns\HasAiUsage;

class Invoice extends Model
{
    use HasAiUsage;
}

$invoice->aiUsage;          // AiUsageRecord collection
$invoice->aiUsageCost();    // total cost

Invoice::query()->withSum('aiUsage', 'total_cost')->get(); // no N+1 in lists

If the subject has an aiUsageUrl(): ?string method, the record detail page links to it.

Pricing

Costs are calculated when a call is recorded, using the prices (per 1M tokens) of the matching row in ai_models. Input, cache-read, cache-write and output tokens are each charged at their own rate. The token counts are read the same way from laravel/ai 0.x and 1.x, even though 1.x includes the cached tokens in inputTokens. The rates used are stored on the record. A model is matched on provider and model id, then on the id without a date or -latest suffix, then on its OpenRouter id. Calls to a model without a price are recorded with a cost of 0 and flagged as "without pricing".

After the prices change, or once a missing model has been synced, recalculate the old rows:

php artisan ai-usage:reprice --missing-only --dry-run
php artisan ai-usage:reprice --missing-only
php artisan ai-usage:reprice --from=2026-10-01 --to=2026-10-31

Budgets

'budgets' => [
    'monthly' => [
        'period' => 'month',        // day, week or month
        'limit' => 50,              // in the configured currency
        'thresholds' => [0.8, 1.0], // fractions of the limit
        'feature' => null,          // or limit the budget to one feature
        'mail' => ['admin@example.com'],
    ],
],

When the spend in a period crosses a threshold, BudgetThresholdReached fires once for that budget, period and threshold, and the addresses are mailed. AiUsageRecorded fires after every recorded call.

Pages

The pages use a standalone layout with the package's own stylesheet. To show them in your application's layout instead, set layout to your layout component (e.g. layouts::app). Then add the package views to your Tailwind sources:

@source "../../vendor/spaanproductions/laravel-ai-usage/resources/views";

To change the views, publish them. To serve the stylesheet as a static file instead of through a route, publish the assets:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-usage-views
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=ai-usage-assets

Testing

The package factories make test data easy:

use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Models\AiModel;
use SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Models\AiUsageRecord;

AiModel::factory()->withPricing(input: 2, output: 10, cachedInput: 0.5)->create(['model_id' => 'gpt-4o']);
AiUsageRecord::factory()->create(['feature' => 'invoice_reading', 'total_cost' => 1.25]);
AiUsageRecord::factory()->failed()->create();

laravel/ai fakes (Agent::fake()) are recorded too, but with zero tokens.

For three months of demo data, run the seeder. Running it again replaces the earlier demo rows:

php artisan db:seed --class="SpaanProductions\LaravelAiUsage\Database\Seeders\AiUsageDemoSeeder"

AI assistants

The package ships a Laravel Boost skill, ai-usage-development. Select it when you run php artisan boost:install.

Development

composer test       # PHPUnit via Orchestra Testbench
composer analyse    # PHPStan (Larastan), level 5
composer format     # php-cs-fixer (PSR-12, tabs)

After changing a view, rebuild the stylesheet and commit dist/ai-usage.css:

npm install
npm run build

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 © Spaan Productions.