Ganivra Python SDK

See which customers and workflows drive your AI costs. Ganivra captures model usage from your Python app and connects calls to the customer action that caused them. Add revenue to see contribution after recorded AI costs.

Two customer actions can each earn $0.05. If one costs $0.01 in AI calls and the other costs $0.08, they leave $0.04 and lose $0.03 respectively. These illustrative amounts show what customer attribution helps you investigate.

• Find the customers and workflows responsible for your largest costs.
• Inspect the model and MCP calls behind one customer action.
• Compare recorded costs with customer revenue.

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Ganivra measures AI cost, revenue, profit, and margin without proxying model traffic or storing prompt and response bodies. Version 0.6 supports automatic OpenAI Responses and Claude Messages telemetry, explicit provider-independent REST events, MCP tool calls, non-model delivery costs, pricing plans, customer plan attribution, and confirmed purchase or subscription transactions.

Start with one customer action

Requires Python 3.10+, a Ganivra workspace key, and an OpenAI API key. This example makes one paid model call using your OpenAI account.

python -m pip install ganivra
export GANIVRA_API_KEY="YOUR_WORKSPACE_KEY"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="YOUR_OPENAI_KEY"

Save this as track_cost.py and run python track_cost.py.

import os
import ganivra
from openai import OpenAI

ganivra.init(api_key=os.environ["GANIVRA_API_KEY"])
client = OpenAI()

with ganivra.trace(
    application="support-app",
    workflow="support_answer",
    customer_id="demo_customer",
):
    response = client.responses.create(
        model="gpt-6.1-sol",
        input="Write a one-sentence acknowledgement of a support request.",
    )

ganivra.flush()
print(response.output_text)

Open your dashboard, filter by application support-app, and inspect the execution to see its model usage and recorded cost for demo_customer. Configure customer pricing or report revenue to calculate contribution and margin.

flush() waits briefly for the best-effort queue to drain. It does not confirm server acceptance. If the event is missing, check your workspace key and endpoint.

Choose your next step

You want to…	Start here
Group calls by customer and billable action	Business context
Capture Claude usage	Claude setup
Include tool costs	MCP instrumentation
Connect confirmed payments	Revenue transactions
Submit usage from another provider	REST client guide

Version 0.6 capability status

Capability	Status
OpenAI Responses	Automatic for synchronous, non-streaming calls
Claude Messages	Automatic for sync, async, and streaming calls with ganivra[anthropic]
OpenAI Chat Completions and open-model APIs	Automatic for synchronous calls, including streaming. A client pointed at Together AI, Fireworks, DeepInfra or Baseten is recorded under that provider and priced at its rates; other base URLs are recorded as openai. Streams need stream_options={"include_usage": True}; without it the call is recorded as unpriced
Self-hosted models (vLLM, SGLang, TGI)	Automatic for hosts listed in self_hosted_hosts (0.6.3); priced as a share of your GPU pools
MCP tools	Instrument with ganivra.mcp_call(...) or submit through REST
Gemini and other providers	Submit complete usage through ganivra.Client; not automatically instrumented
Customer, workflow, feature, prompt, plan, and agent attribution	Supported through trace attributes and explicit events
Purchases, renewals, credit purchases, and refunds	Synchronous acknowledged transaction API
Telephony, speech, OCR, search, compute, and other delivery costs	Synchronous acknowledged delivery-cost API

Automatic telemetry uses a bounded best-effort queue. Financial transactions, delivery costs, and explicit REST writes require acknowledgement and surface API errors to the caller.

Install

python -m pip install ganivra

Ganivra requires Python 3.10 or newer. Auto-capture supports synchronous, non-streaming OpenAI Responses and Claude Messages (sync, async and streaming). Claude support requires SDK 0.6 and the optional Anthropic dependency.

Initialize before creating the OpenAI client

import ganivra
from openai import OpenAI

ganivra.init(api_key="gv_live_your_workspace_key")
client = OpenAI()

response = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-6.1-sol",
    input="Explain our refund policy simply.",
)

Initialization automatically captures model, input/output/cached token counts, latency, status, error type, and environment. Ganivra creates execution and step IDs and exports the metadata on a bounded background queue.

Add business context for unit economics

def answer_for(account, credits_debited):
    with ganivra.trace(
        metadata={"channel": "voice"},
        application="support-platform",
        workflow="support_answer",
        feature="support_chatbot",
        customer_id=account.id,
        plan_key=account.plan_key,
        credits=credits_debited,
        prompt_id="support_answer",
        prompt_version="v1",
    ):
        return client.responses.create(
            model="gpt-6.1-sol",
            input="Explain our refund policy simply.",
        )

Trace metadata is optional. It enables customer, feature, workflow, prompt, and margin reporting. Use the stable tenant or account identifier already present in each authenticated request as customer_id; customers do not need to be registered with Ganivra first. Configure customer pricing plans separately when you want revenue derived automatically instead of sending revenue_usd per execution. The metadata mapping accepts additional bounded JSON dimensions and is inherited by nested traces. Use pseudonymous identifiers where appropriate.

Pricing rates stay in Ganivra; never look up a rate or calculate revenue in the instrumented request. Subscription and per-execution plans only need customer_id. Token and hybrid plans use the token/execution telemetry captured by the SDK. For a credit/unit plan, also pass the exact usage attribute configured on the plan—credits above—with the units your application already deducted. Send plan_key when customers can choose or change plans without a manual Ganivra assignment. Ganivra combines the plan and credit usage with the rate configured in your workspace.

Treat one billable customer action as one trace/execution. If one trace produces multiple model calls, the inherited transaction-level credit value is repeated on the resulting events and counted once. Start a separate trace for each independently billed action.

Example: a customer pays $100 for 500 credits. Record the purchase through the Transactions API as credit_purchase with units_purchased=500; a trace that deducts 50 credits passes credits=50 and earns $10 against the cost of its model calls. Each subscription payment covers one month from its payment date and is shared across the customer's actions in that period, and credits included with a subscription (units_purchased on the subscription_payment) are used before pack credits. Do not pass a credit plan_key for users who have not bought credits, such as guests.

Track MCP tool calls through the same API

Use ganivra.mcp_call(...) to capture tool execution. It uses the same API key, background queue, batching, retries, /v1/events endpoint, and active trace as automatic model instrumentation. The helper measures latency and outcome around the tool call but never receives or inspects its arguments or result.

import ganivra

with ganivra.trace(
    application="customer-operations-platform",
    workflow="lead_qualification",
    feature="sales_agent",
    customer_id=account.id,
) as execution:
    with ganivra.mcp_call(
        server="crm-server",
        tool="search_accounts",
        transport="streamable_http",
        auth_type="oauth",
        metadata={
            "result_count": 3,
            "cache_hit": False,
            "region": "us-east",
        },
        provider_reported_cost_usd=0.002,
    ) as tool_call:
        result = mcp_client.call_tool("search_accounts", arguments)

The emitted MCP event shares execution.execution_id with model calls inside the surrounding trace. On success it records status="success"; if the tool raises, Ganivra records only the exception class as error_type and re-raises the original exception unchanged.

Link a model call caused by an MCP result

Shared execution_id is sufficient for execution-level cost attribution. When you also need an explicit parent-child edge, use the yielded MCP step_id as the next trace's parent_step_id:

with ganivra.trace(
    execution_id=execution.execution_id,
    parent_step_id=tool_call.step_id,
):
    response = client.responses.create(
        model="gpt-6.1-sol",
        input=build_model_input(result),
    )

The OpenAI event remains a normal model event with no event_type; only the MCP tool event sends event_type="mcp".

MCP helper parameters

Parameter	Required	Guidance
server	Yes	Stable logical MCP server name, such as crm-server; do not send a URL containing credentials
tool	Yes	Exact stable tool name advertised by the server
transport	No	Category such as stdio, sse, or streamable_http
auth_type	No	Coarse category such as oauth, api_key, or none; never send scopes or credentials
metadata	No	Bounded counts, categories, IDs, and booleans only
provider_reported_cost_usd	No	Exact known cost; send 0 only when the tool is known to be free
execution_id	No	Override when joining a trace created in another process or service
parent_step_id	No	Step that directly caused this MCP invocation

Do not place tool arguments, tool results, prompts, responses, OAuth scopes, workspace IDs, tokens, secrets, personal data, or request/response bodies in metadata. Ganivra rejects these content-bearing fields at ingestion.

MCP cost behavior

• If the MCP provider returns an exact cost, pass it through provider_reported_cost_usd.
• If a tool has a fixed contract rate, configure provider mcp, model <server>/<tool>, and a request component rate in Ganivra.
• Send provider_reported_cost_usd=0 only for a confirmed free tool call.
• If no exact cost or rate exists, omit cost. Ganivra marks the step unpriced rather than silently treating unknown cost as zero.

When not to use the Python helper

Use the REST event contract directly when MCP calls happen in Node.js, Java, Go, another service, or existing middleware that already measures tool calls. Do not duplicate the event from both the Python helper and REST integration; if retries are possible, keep one stable event_id in the direct REST path.

Record confirmed purchases (optional)

Event telemetry works on its own and provides AI cost plus plan-rated unit economics. After your payment webhook is verified and your application has updated the customer's credits or subscription, optionally send the confirmed financial transaction so Ganivra can reconcile plan-rated revenue with payment actuals.

result = ganivra.transactions.create(
    external_id=payment_intent.id,  # stable provider ID; retries are idempotent
    customer_id=account.id,
    transaction_type="credit_purchase",
    amount=3999,
    currency="INR",
    amount_usd=47,
    units_purchased=1000,
    plan_key="growth",
    source="stripe",
)

Currency defaults to USD. For another currency, optionally send either amount_usd or exchange_rate_to_usd to normalize (never both). Without either, Ganivra retains the native amount and compares its raw number with USD costs; contribution and margin display a currency-normalization warning. Use transaction_type="subscription_payment" for renewals and transaction_type="refund" for refunds. Include execution_id when a payment belongs to a particular AI result. This call is synchronous and raises ganivra.GanivraAPIError if Ganivra does not accept the transaction; only call it after your own payment and entitlement updates succeed.

Self-hosted models on your own GPUs

From 0.6.3, name your own OpenAI-compatible model servers once. Their calls are recorded as provider self_hosted with the response id as attributes.request_id, so Ganivra can match vLLM's trace for the request.

ganivra.init(api_key="gv_live_your_workspace_key", self_hosted_hosts=["vllm.internal"])

Add the GPUs as a pool in Ganivra (Dashboard → Own GPUs, or the client below). Each UTC day's GPU bill is split across that day's calls. A pool rented to one customer charges them every hour, idle included, and with a sell rate shows the margin on them:

admin = Client(access_token=current_user_access_token, workspace_id=workspace_id)
admin.economics.create_gpu_pool(payload={
    "name": "Acme node", "gpu_type": "B200", "gpu_count": 8, "hourly_rate_usd": 6.69,
    "customer_id": "acme", "sell_hourly_rate_usd": 9.50,
})
tenants = admin.economics.gpu_tenants(params={"days": 30})

See the self-hosted setup for vLLM traces and GPU utilization metrics.

Configuration

ganivra.init(
    api_key="gv_live_your_workspace_key",
    endpoint="https://api.ganivra.com",
    environment="production",
    queue_size=1000,
    batch_size=20,
    timeout_seconds=2.0,
    max_retries=2,
)

For local Ganivra development, set endpoint="http://127.0.0.1:8000". Call ganivra.flush() in short-lived scripts when you want to wait briefly for queued telemetry.

Privacy and failure behavior

• OpenAI requests continue going directly from your application to OpenAI.
• Prompt and response bodies are never collected.
• OpenAI API keys are never collected.
• Telemetry failures never change the OpenAI result or exception your code sees.
• A full queue or unavailable Ganivra endpoint drops telemetry instead of blocking the application.

Prefer the language-independent REST API when automatic Python instrumentation is not appropriate. The canonical API contract is documented at docs/API.md in the Ganivra project.

Integration fields that unlock value

Send a stable customer ID, application, feature and workflow with every execution. For calculated revenue, send the configured plan_key or assign the customer to an effective pricing plan. Credit/unit plans also need actual consumed units in the configured attribute. Missing revenue appears as Unknown, not zero.

The integration field guide explains required fields, occurrence timestamps, execution/step identity, model and MCP quantities, plan selection, and a one-execution verification checklist. Preserve event IDs on delivery retries; actual additional calls need new IDs. Business workflow names are open-ended; the top-level event_type is not.

Additional delivery costs

Use ganivra.delivery_costs.create(...) or create_batch([...]) to record explicit telephony, speech, OCR, search, compute and other non-model costs. Unlike best-effort model telemetry this call requires acknowledgement and raises GanivraAPIError on failure. Persist and retry identical event IDs/payloads in your application. See the integration guide for schemas and corrections. Do not report charges already present in model or MCP events.

Explicit REST client and administration

ganivra.Client covers provider-independent events, revenue, pricing plans, assignments and historical dates, contract rates, reconciliation, reports, investigations, evidence, snapshots, audit logs, bills, allocations, budgets and workspace administration. Use api_key for ingestion or access_token for authorized management. See the REST client guide for examples and methods. SDK 0.6 additionally supports automatic Claude Messages capture; Gemini remains explicit submission only.

Explicit client quick start

from ganivra import Client, APIError

usage = Client(api_key="your_workspace_key")
# event is a complete REST event with actual provider usage and stable IDs.
result = usage.events.create(payload=event)

admin = Client(access_token=current_user_access_token, workspace_id=workspace_id)
history = admin.events.history(event["event_id"])
assessments = admin.value.list(params={"limit": 25, "offset": 0})

The client supports complete REST payloads, including corrections, revenue imports, pricing administration and evidence. Authentication and permissions are identical to REST. Errors expose status, body and Retry-After; writes are never automatically retried. Use trace(agent_name="review_agent", ...) for first-class agent attribution in auto-captured calls. See REST_CLIENT.md for coverage and the automatic-capture limitations.

Automatic Claude capture (0.6)

pip install 'ganivra[anthropic]>=0.6,<0.7'

Install the optional Claude adapter with pip install 'ganivra[anthropic]>=0.6,<0.7'. Version 0.6 is tested with official anthropic==0.125.0; the optional dependency is constrained to >=0.125,<0.126 for the managed-stream adapter. No paid provider calls are required for the transport tests.

import os
import ganivra
from anthropic import Anthropic

ganivra.init(api_key=os.environ['GANIVRA_API_KEY'])
client = Anthropic()  # Uses your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY; requests go directly to Claude.

with ganivra.trace(customer_id='tenant_42', plan_key='growth',
                   workflow='document_review', agent_name='review_agent'):
    with client.messages.stream(
        model='claude-sonnet-4-6', max_tokens=1024,
        messages=[{'role': 'user', 'content': 'Summarize the document.'}],
    ) as stream:
        for text in stream.text_stream:
            print(text, end='')

ganivra.flush()  # Best-effort queue drain; not proof of server acceptance.

Supported: Anthropic.messages.create, AsyncAnthropic.messages.create, stream=True, and both clients' messages.stream context managers. Initialize before constructing clients. Use AsyncAnthropic and async with / async for for asynchronous streaming; attribution uses the context active at invocation.

One event is emitted per observed SDK operation, not per chunk. Usage updates are cumulative. Capture includes input/output tokens, cache reads, 5-minute and 1-hour cache writes, and reported web search/fetch counts. Reasoning tokens are already included in output tokens and are not added twice. No message, prompt, response, tool content or error message is sent. Provider SDK internal retry attempts are not separately visible; application-level calls generate new events.

Consume streams to completion or explicitly close them. Early closure, stream errors and cancellation retain available usage with usage_incomplete=1 and error status. Ganivra leaves incomplete usage unpriced, including after repricing, unless exact provider cost is supplied. Successful responses without usage are also unpriced. Priority-tier usage is unpriced without exact provider cost.

The default Messages API is covered; beta APIs, batch jobs, raw HTTP-response helpers, Bedrock/Vertex clients, Gemini, and OpenAI async/streaming are outside this adapter's supported scope. Do not also submit the same calls manually. The background queue remains best-effort; process termination or queue exhaustion can lose telemetry. This feature does not add durable delivery.