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Summary

Makes gateway pricing accurate by default and inspectable at runtime, on top of the
consolidation in #928.

The starting point was a measurement. Differencing x-litellm-response-cost-original
across paired non-streamed calls against ete-litellm.ai-models.vpc-int.res.ibm.com:

model input cache-write cache-read output vs list
claude-opus-5 3.80 4.75 0.38 19.00 0.7600
claude-sonnet-5 1.52 1.90 0.152 7.60 0.7600
claude-haiku-4-5 0.76 3.80 0.7600

Twelve figures agreeing to four decimal places. A gateway discount is a scalar, not a
rate card — so it is expressed as one.

Key changes:

  • pricing.endpoints[].multiplier — scales every rate that resolves for those hosts,
    tiers and long-context thresholds included. One number instead of twelve, and it tracks
    upstream repricing: the gateway's price is derived from list, so refreshing the bundled
    table moves both together. A copied rate card freezes today's numbers and goes stale
    with nothing to say it has.
  • The measured 0.76 ships as a bundled rule for *.res.ibm.com, scoped rather than
    global
    . A global default would silently understate anyone going straight to
    api.anthropic.com by 24%, and understating hides spend. Scoped, both audiences are
    right with no configuration.
  • abctl pricing and GET /pricing/table[?host=] show the rates in effect, with
    provenance.
  • Drift detection in litellm-budget-track: when the modelled cost diverges from the
    gateway's own by more than 5%, warn once per endpoint and model.
  • A commented pricing: block in the generated config, so the knob is visible without
    reading docs.

Verified end to end: a real captured turn (12 input / 169,511 cache-read / 9 output on
opus-5) now prices at $0.0646 — exactly what the gateway charged — while
api.anthropic.com stays at $0.0850 list.

Why not write the rates into the config file

That was the obvious alternative and it is a trap. install.sh writes the config only
when absent
(:1111), so rates stored there would be frozen at each install's date and
never move again, silently — the exact staleness #928 existed to remove. It would also
take the config from 65 lines to ~242, and leave no sane answer to "config says 3.80,
binary says 5.00, which wins?"

So the table is made inspectable rather than stored, and the config carries only the
knob, as comments that cannot go stale because they assert nothing.

Two things the measurement turned up

/model/info is 403 for a scoped virtual key"Virtual key is not allowed to call
this route. Only allowed to call routes: ['llm_api_routes']"
. The rate-discovery
feature deferred from #928 would not have worked on this gateway even if built and even
with a key mounted. Its cost/benefit rejection stands on stronger ground than the one
given at the time.

Haiku's cache accounting looks broken gateway-side. Two calls, one writing 18,388
tokens and one reading them, returned an identical cost — those tokens billed at zero.
Haiku's input and output rates are solid; only its cache tiers are unmeasurable. Applying
the multiplier uniformly (as decided) will slightly overstate haiku cache traffic until
that is fixed gateway-side, and the drift check is what will keep surfacing it.

Corrections to merged content

WarnIfUnpinned and tool-prune-plugin.md asserted a bare 1.32x derived from
comparing hand-measured rates against current list, when the repo's own comment claimed
"roughly 4x". Both were reasoning where a measurement was available. The figure is now
measured, and the text says 0.76x of list with the multiplier as the fix.

Testing

  • authlib and 5 other modules build, vet and go test -race clean
  • golangci-lint --new-from-rev=upstream/main reports 0 issues in authlib and abctl
  • abctl pricing is tested end to end through the real handler and a real Registry,
    not a canned fixture, so the wire shape cannot drift from its producer

One pre-existing failure is untouched and unrelated:
cmd/abctl TestRunExec_BeforeFirstStartRunsAndSaysWhatIsLost fails identically on clean
main with these changes stashed. It arrived with abctl exec (#916) and reports
~/.cortex/ca/bundle.crt "does not exist" when the file is present.

Disclosure of the shipped factor

bundledMultipliers publishes 0.76 bound to *.res.ibm.com — i.e. it states in a
public Apache-2.0 repository that IBM's internal LiteLLM gateways bill 76% of Anthropic's
list price. That is a deliberate decision, taken by @huang195 as maintainer, on the basis
that the factor is not confidential; it is recorded here rather than only in code so the
comment in bundled_multipliers.go has something checkable to point at.

Scope of what is disclosed: the host pattern (already present on main in five files,
including docs/laptop-service.md and authlib/tlsbridge/decision_test.go), the factor,
and the per-model rates that follow from it. Widening the pattern to other gateways, or
changing the factor, should be treated as a fresh disclosure decision and not a data
refresh.

Related issue(s)

Refs #910


Assisted-By: Claude Code

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added pricing details to the stats page and a new abctl pricing command, with host-specific effective rates and JSON output.
    • Added configurable gateway pricing multipliers, including bundled discounts for supported gateways.
    • Added pricing diagnostics for rate sources, discounts, and unresolved models.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added warnings when reported costs differ significantly from modeled pricing while preserving authoritative billing figures.
  • Documentation

    • Documented pricing multipliers, effective-rate inspection, and cost drift detection.

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  • authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/drift.go
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  • authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/describe.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/host.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/multiplier_test.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/table.go
  • authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go
  • authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing_test.go
  • authbridge/docs/plugin-catalog.md
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The change adds host-specific pricing multipliers, pricing diagnostics through the stat server and abctl, runtime wiring and documentation, plus drift warnings when LiteLLM gateway costs differ from modelled costs.

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Pricing multipliers and diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multiplier resolution and validation
authbridge/authlib/pricing/...
Pricing tables accept validated bundled and configured multipliers. Multipliers scale pricing tiers and threshold overrides.
Pricing descriptions and HTTP handler
authbridge/authlib/pricing/describe.go, authbridge/authlib/pricing/handler.go, authbridge/authlib/pricing/*_test.go
The registry exposes raw pricing and host-effective rates as JSON. The handler selects the effective view when a host query parameter is present.
Runtime pricing endpoint integration
authbridge/authlib/observe/statserver.go, authbridge/authlib/runtimeutil/runtimeutil.go, authbridge/cmd/authbridge-*/...
The stat server registers /pricing/table when configured and links to it from the index page. Runtime integrations pass the pricing registry handler.
Pricing CLI and documentation
authbridge/cmd/abctl/..., authbridge/cmd/authbridge-proxy/local.go, authbridge/docs/...
abctl pricing renders raw or host-effective pricing. Tests cover output and connection errors. Configuration and plugin documentation describe multipliers and pricing inspection.
Gateway cost drift detection
authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/...
BudgetTrack compares gateway-header costs with modelled rates, logs one warning per endpoint and model when they differ by more than 5%, and retains the authoritative gateway cost in the ledger.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Operator
  participant abctl
  participant StatServer
  participant PricingRegistry
  participant PricingTable
  Operator->>abctl: Run pricing --host
  abctl->>StatServer: GET /pricing/table?host=...
  StatServer->>PricingRegistry: Handle pricing request
  PricingRegistry->>PricingTable: Resolve effective rates
  PricingTable-->>PricingRegistry: Scaled rates and provenance
  PricingRegistry-->>StatServer: JSON pricing description
  StatServer-->>abctl: HTTP response
  abctl-->>Operator: Render effective pricing
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Before merge, resolve the multiplier matching and precedence defects, the enforced CLI lint failure, and the documented command’s risk of sending credentials over HTTP.

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438-441: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the stale manual-pinning claim.

This paragraph says that every below-list gateway remains overstated until the operator pins it. Lines 409-411 now document shipped gateway multipliers that require no configuration.

Update this paragraph to distinguish gateways with shipped rules from gateways that need a configured multiplier.

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In `@authbridge/docs/plugin-catalog.md` around lines 438 - 441, Update the
paragraph around “Bundled rates are VENDOR LIST” to remove the blanket
manual-pinning claim. Distinguish gateways covered by shipped gateway
multipliers from gateways without shipped rules that still require a host-scoped
configured multiplier, while preserving the precedence of host-scoped entries.
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Inline comments:
In `@authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/drift.go`:
- Line 79: Update the ratio check in the drift evaluation to treat both
tolerance boundaries as silent, so ratios of 0.95 and 1.05 do not emit warnings;
retain warnings only for divergence beyond 5%, and add boundary tests covering
both values.

In `@authbridge/authlib/pricing/describe.go`:
- Line 166: Update the host-effective pricing flow around Resolve and
EffectiveRates so requests above configured prompt thresholds expose the
applicable long-context rate instead of always using the base tier. Apply the
host multiplier to threshold rate data, or pass the prompt-token count through
and clearly expose the selected tier while preserving the existing base-rate
behavior below thresholds.

In `@authbridge/authlib/pricing/multiplier.go`:
- Around line 53-56: Update the multiplier host validation around
validHostPattern in NewMultiplier to apply the same hostKey validation used by
NewTable entries, rejecting patterns that include a port before accepting them.
Preserve existing anyHost handling and error reporting for other invalid host
patterns.

In `@authbridge/authlib/pricing/table.go`:
- Around line 341-351: Update NewTable’s multiplier-rule loading logic to detect
duplicate rules sharing the same normalized host and provenance, and return an
error instead of appending the conflicting multRule. Match the existing
duplicate-rate-row validation behavior, while preserving valid rules with
different hosts or provenance and the multiplierFor specificity logic.
- Around line 414-418: The Resolve logic around multiplierFor must promote
provenance for configured rules even when the multiplier is 1. Update the block
to enter when mprov is not ProvNone, always apply the provenance update, and
only call rates.scale when f differs from 1.

In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go`:
- Line 74: Update the HTTP request in fetchPricing around c.Get(url) to preserve
the existing 10-second client timeout and explicitly suppress the noctx lint
warning, matching the established bounded http.Client.Get pattern without
changing request behavior.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@authbridge/docs/plugin-catalog.md`:
- Around line 438-441: Update the paragraph around “Bundled rates are VENDOR
LIST” to remove the blanket manual-pinning claim. Distinguish gateways covered
by shipped gateway multipliers from gateways without shipped rules that still
require a host-scoped configured multiplier, while preserving the precedence of
host-scoped entries.

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  • authbridge/authlib/observe/statserver.go
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  • authbridge/authlib/plugins/litellm_budgettrack/plugin.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/bundled_multipliers.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/config.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/describe.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/describe_test.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/handler.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/multiplier.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/multiplier_test.go
  • authbridge/authlib/pricing/table.go
  • authbridge/authlib/runtimeutil/runtimeutil.go
  • authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing.go
  • authbridge/cmd/abctl/cmd_pricing_test.go
  • authbridge/cmd/abctl/main.go
  • authbridge/cmd/authbridge-cpex/main.go
  • authbridge/cmd/authbridge-envoy/main.go
  • authbridge/cmd/authbridge-proxy/local.go
  • authbridge/cmd/authbridge-proxy/main.go
  • authbridge/docs/litellm-budgettrack-plugin.md
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Comment on lines +53 to +56
if !anyHost(m.Host) {
if err := validHostPattern(strings.ToLower(m.Host)); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q: %w", what, m.Host, err)
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject multiplier host patterns that contain a port.

Request endpoints are matched after their ports are stripped. This validation does not apply the equivalent check used for pricing rows. A rule such as gw.internal:443 can therefore pass startup but never match, which silently leaves the gateway at list price.

Apply the same hostKey validation used by NewTable for entries.

Proposed fix
 	if !anyHost(m.Host) {
-		if err := validHostPattern(strings.ToLower(m.Host)); err != nil {
+		host := strings.ToLower(m.Host)
+		if err := validHostPattern(host); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q: %w", what, m.Host, err)
 		}
+		if bare := hostKey(host); bare != host {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q must not include a port; use %q",
+				what, m.Host, bare)
+		}
 	}
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if !anyHost(m.Host) {
if err := validHostPattern(strings.ToLower(m.Host)); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q: %w", what, m.Host, err)
}
if !anyHost(m.Host) {
host := strings.ToLower(m.Host)
if err := validHostPattern(host); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q: %w", what, m.Host, err)
}
if bare := hostKey(host); bare != host {
return fmt.Errorf("%s: multiplier host pattern %q must not include a port; use %q",
what, m.Host, bare)
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In `@authbridge/authlib/pricing/multiplier.go` around lines 53 - 56, Update the
multiplier host validation around validHostPattern in NewMultiplier to apply the
same hostKey validation used by NewTable entries, rejecting patterns that
include a port before accepting them. Preserve existing anyHost handling and
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func fetchPricing(url string) ([]byte, error) {
c := &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}
resp, err := c.Get(url)

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-	resp, err := c.Get(url)
+	resp, err := c.Get(url) //nolint:noctx // bounded by Timeout

fetchPricing already bounds this request with a 10-second client timeout. Match the existing bounded http.Client.Get calls and suppress noctx.

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A gateway discount is a SCALAR, not a rate card. Measured against
ete-litellm.ai-models.vpc-int.res.ibm.com by differencing
x-litellm-response-cost-original across paired non-streamed calls: input,
cache-write, cache-read and output, for opus-5, sonnet-5 and haiku-4-5, all
came to exactly 0.7600 of vendor list. Twelve independent figures agreeing to
four decimal places.

Copying those twelve numbers into config has two costs a multiplier does not:
twelve chances to fumble a decimal place, and it goes stale silently the moment
Anthropic reprices. The gateway's price is DERIVED from list, so one scalar
tracks a repricing automatically once the bundled table is refreshed, while a
copied rate card keeps reporting last quarter's numbers with nothing to say it
is wrong.

pricing.endpoints[].multiplier is that scalar, and a multiplier-only endpoint
needs no models block since it scales whatever already resolves — including
models no entry names.

The measured 0.76 ships as a bundled rule for *.res.ibm.com, and is SCOPED
rather than global. A global default would silently understate anyone going
straight to api.anthropic.com by 24%, and understating hides spend, which is
worse than overstating it. Scoped means both audiences are correct with no
configuration: those gateways get the discount, everything else gets list, and
an operator with different terms overrides in one line. Verified end to end —
a real captured turn (12 in / 169,511 cache-read / 9 out on opus-5) now prices
at $0.0646, exactly what the gateway charged, while api.anthropic.com stays at
$0.0850.

The rule lives in a hand-maintained bundled_multipliers.go, not the generated
table: it comes from a commercial agreement rather than LiteLLM's price map, and
`make pricing-table` must never be able to clobber it. It is gated on
BundledEnabled, because a multiplier on rates you did not ship would scale
somebody else's numbers.

Thresholds scale too. Missing that would leave a discounted gateway correct
below its long-context breakpoint and wrong above it — an unexplained jump in
reported cost on exactly the long sessions this is meant to measure.

Provenance takes the STRONGER of the rate's and the multiplier's sources.
"bundled" is the label meaning "you have told us nothing about this endpoint,
expect it to be wrong" — it drives WarnIfUnpinned and abctl's annotation — so an
operator who set a multiplier must not be told to go pin rates they have
effectively already pinned. I implemented the weaker reading first; it looks
conservative and is in fact less informative.

The factor is capped at 10. `multiplier: 76` for 0.76 inflates every figure a
hundredfold and reads as entirely plausible in a config file; the error says so
and suggests the decimal.

Also corrects WarnIfUnpinned, which asserted a bare "1.32x" from an unfounded
comparison. It now names the measured 0.76x, points at the multiplier as the
fix, and says that gateways matching the shipped rule need nothing.

Refs rossoctl#910

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…h the gateway

Three additions that answer the same question from different angles: what
rates is this process actually charging, and how would I know if they were
wrong.

abctl pricing renders the rates in effect, and GET /pricing/table serves them
on the diagnostic listener beside /config and /reload/status. The --host form
is the one worth having: "which rows exist" is answerable from the source,
while "what will this gateway charge me" needs host scoping, specificity,
provenance precedence and the discount applied together, which is not
something a reader can carry out by eye over 33 rows.

This is deliberately NOT the same as writing the rates into the config file,
which was the obvious alternative. install.sh writes config only when it is
absent, so rates stored there would be frozen at each install's date and never
move again, silently — the exact staleness this pricing work existed to
remove. The table is made inspectable instead of stored, and the generated
config carries a commented block naming the one knob most deployments need,
which cannot go stale because it asserts nothing.

Drift detection closes the loop. A non-streamed response carries both the
gateway's settled cost and the token counts, so the modelled figure can be
checked against the real one for free — and for months a gateway billing 0.76x
vendor list was reported at list with that discrepancy present in every such
response and no signal anywhere. It now warns once per endpoint and model past
a 5% tolerance, which absorbs rounding and micro quantization while catching
every mistake that matters: a forgotten discount is 32% off, a decimal slip is
a factor of ten.

Once per endpoint and model, not per request: an agent makes thousands of
calls and a per-request warning would bury every other line. The ledger keeps
using the authoritative figure — drift is a diagnostic about the rate table,
never a reason to distrust the gateway's own number. Streamed responses are
silent because their cost header is 0 by design, so there is nothing to
compare; that is also why the check matters, since a misconfigured table is
otherwise invisible on exactly the traffic an agent generates.

A tier with no rate renders "-", never 0.00. pricing.Cost refuses to price a
request that used such a tier, so a zero would present a coverage gap as a
price of nothing.

Tested end to end through the real handler and a real Registry rather than a
canned fixture, so the wire shape cannot drift from its producer.

Refs rossoctl#910

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Seven review items, each verified against the code before changing it.

- Rates.scale walked r.Thresholds, but Resolve flattens with At(promptTotal)
  first, so that branch could never see one. Proven by putting a panic in it
  and watching the whole suite pass — including the test that appeared to
  cover it, which reaches the same property through At(). Removed rather than
  left implying a guarantee it did not provide; the comment now credits the
  ordering that actually holds it.

- abctl pricing --host quoted below-threshold rates as if they were the only
  rates. Four bundled models have a 200k long-context tier, and the host view
  resolves at prompt size 0, so a long session was shown a figure it is not
  charged — the failure this package exists to remove, reintroduced by the
  tool built to inspect it. EffectiveRates now carries longContextAbove, and
  the renderer marks those rows with a footnote giving the breakpoint.

- The drift dedup map was unbounded and keyed on (Host, model), both taken
  off the request, in a process that runs for weeks. Capped at 256 pairs;
  at the cap reporting stops and says so once, because dropping the dedup
  instead would trade bounded memory for unbounded logs, and going quiet
  without a word would read as the drift having been fixed.

- --host went into the URL unescaped, so a "&" or "#" in an operator's host
  silently truncated the parameter and the proxy answered for a different
  endpoint. url.Values.Encode now.

- Documented that provenance ranks before specificity, so a catch-all
  multiplier an operator configures beats a specific rule Cortex ships, and
  that an explicit 1.0 is how to drop a shipped discount. Both are surprising
  enough to be pinned by tests rather than asserted in prose.

- MultiplierRule.Prov said a scaled figure reports the WEAKER of its two
  sources. It reports the stronger, and has since review; the comment was
  stale and contradicted table.go.

- Replaced Contains(got, "5") in the abctl test: "5" also matches the model
  name claude-opus-5, so it asserted nothing. Now scoped to the opus-5 row,
  checking the list rates are there and the discounted ones are not.

Also added the measurement method to plugin-catalog.md — a comment cited it
as being there and it was not, and an operator on a different gateway needs
it to find their own factor. Dropped an unused os.Stdout reference and a typo.

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Second review pass. Five code items plus the disclosure marker.

- scale passed Thresholds through UNSCALED after the dead branch came out, so
  one Rates value carried two scales at once. Harmless from Resolve, which
  always flattens first, but silently wrong for the future caller the comment
  above it anticipates: At() would fold a list-price premium onto a discounted
  base. Neither passing them through nor dropping them is right — a discounted
  gateway discounts its long-context tier too — so they scale, and a direct
  unit test covers the branch its caller cannot reach. The test asserts the
  property that makes the ordering safe: scale and At COMMUTE.

- lowestThresholdFor had reimplemented Resolve's row ranking verbatim. Two
  copies would diverge the first time the ranking is touched, and silently —
  a marker attached to a row other than the one being charged. Extracted
  Table.bestRow; both call it.

- The raw `abctl pricing` view dropped long-context overrides even though the
  JSON has always carried them, so it presented the below-threshold half of a
  two-tier row as the whole answer — the same gap as the host view, in the
  other direction. Overrides now render on a continuation line with their own
  rates, indented under the row they modify.

- The provenance bump sat inside the `f != 1` guard, so an operator writing
  `multiplier: 1.0` to pin "this endpoint bills at list" was reported as
  bundled and then told by WarnIfUnpinned to pin the endpoint they had just
  pinned. Bumped unconditionally; multiplierFor returns ProvNone when nothing
  matches, so this is a no-op then.

- The opus-5 assertion was still vacuous: "5" is a substring of both
  claude-opus-5 and 25, so Contains proved nothing even scoped to the row.
  Asserted by column position instead.

On the shipped factor: the previous rewording removed the marker that told a
maintainer this number is sensitive, while keeping the number. Restored, and
stated plainly — it is the fraction of list IBM's internal gateways bill,
publishing it is a deliberate call, and a change to that line is a disclosure
decision rather than a data refresh.

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- The override assertion used Contains("        6 "), which depends on the %9s
  column padding — it would have failed on a width change while the rate it
  checks was correct. Parsed by column instead, which is the pattern the same
  commit established ten lines away for the opus-5 row. The helper takes the
  line FOLLOWING the model's row rather than scanning for "above" anywhere,
  since a continuation line only means anything attached to the row above it;
  verified by mutation — dropping the override lines from the renderer fails
  the test.

- Dropped the "and not 3.8/19" check: after asserting f[1] == "5" and
  f[4] == "25", no other value is reachable, discounted ones included.

- "A deliberate call by the maintainers" was asserted by the file it justifies,
  so a reader had no way to check it. Now names the approver and points at the
  "Disclosure of the shipped factor" section of cortex#968, which was added to
  the PR body so the citation resolves to something real.

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Review notes — pricing multiplier, inspection, and drift detection

Nice shape overall: the multiplier-as-a-rule approach reads much better than threading a discount through every rate row, abctl pricing is a genuinely useful inspection surface, and the drift check is a good instinct — a rate table that can silently rot is worth having an alarm on.

Three findings below, all in the substantive code path. Filing as comments rather than blocking: the first one is the one I'd most want your read on, since you know the LiteLLM header semantics better than I do.

Provenance note: these came out of an automated review pass, then I re-verified each one against source before posting. The drift finding is confirmed at the source level (headerCost's actual body on main) but not runtime-confirmed — I did not stand up a gateway and observe the warning fire. If I've misread which endpoints emit which header, that finding collapses and I'd rather hear so.

1. Drift detection looks like it will false-positive on the Anthropic path

checkDrift is gated on source == costevent.SourceGatewayHeader, but headerCost on main reads X-Litellm-Response-Cost and falls back to X-Litellm-Response-Cost-Original, returning only (cost, state) — the identity of the header it read is discarded, and both paths produce headerPositiveSourceGatewayHeader.

Per the constant's own doc comment on main, the bare header is the effective post-discount cost, while the Anthropic /v1/messages endpoint emits only the pre-discount -original variant. If that holds, then on Anthropic traffic the modelled figure is multiplier-scaled while authoritative is list price, so ratio collapses to roughly the factor itself (~0.76) — well outside the 5% tolerance — and the warning advises changing a multiplier that is already correct.

Two things make me fairly confident this case was simply not considered rather than deliberately accepted: this PR's own plugin-catalog.md tells operators to derive the factor by dividing x-litellm-response-cost-original by list (only valid if -original is list), and all five new drift tests set the bare responseCostHeader — the fallback path has no coverage.

Possible direction: have headerCost also report which header it read, then either skip drift or compare against the unscaled figure when the number came from -original.

2. A bundled multiplier also scales operator-pinned per-model rates

An operator who measures their gateway and pins the real rates for a host that also has a bundled multiplier gets those pinned rates scaled again — a ~24% understatement, which is the direction this PR's own rationale calls out as the dangerous one.

The multiplier: 1.0 opt-out is documented as a way to get vendor list, but not as the thing you need when you pin measured rates. Two doc lines in plugin-catalog.md read as actively contrary here: the claim that pinning outranks anything bundled, and that your gateway prices at your pinned rates. Both hold for un-multiplied hosts and not for multiplied ones.

The mitigations do work — abctl pricing --host surfaces multiplierFrom=bundled, and drift catches a >5% gap — so this is a docs-and-a-sentence issue rather than a code defect. Worth making the interaction explicit in the per-model section.

3. abctl pricing footer can contradict the row above it

The multiplier footer says "rates above are vendor list scaled by it" unconditionally, but the rates may be operator-configured rather than vendor list. A row reading configured directly above that sentence is confusing. Keying the wording off the row's provenance would fix it.

Also noted, not blocking

  • The drift dedup key is built from raw pctx.Host, while rate resolution lowercases and strips ports — so case and port variants of the same host occupy separate seen entries, meaning the same drift can warn more than once per endpoint/model and the 256-key budget drains faster than expected.
  • Reaching maxDriftKeys sets capped with no reset path, so drift reporting is off for the remaining process lifetime. The comment says this is deliberate; flagging only because in a long-lived proxy, enough distinct client-supplied hosts would quietly retire a spend-correctness check.

Supply-chain surface is clean: no agent/IDE config paths touched, no new dependencies, no workflow changes, all commits signed off, CI green.

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- drift.go:104 — Drift detection compares a multiplier-scaled modelled cost against a figure that may have come from X-Litellm-Response-Cost-Original, which is pre-discount list price. On the Anthropic /v1/messages path only that header is emitted, so the ratio computes to the multiplier itself (0.76) — a 24% divergence outside the 5% tolerance — and warns operators to change a multiplier that is already correct, inverting the feature's purpose. headerCost should report which header it read; drift should then skip or unscale accordingly. No test exercises this fallback.
- config.go:131 — A bundled multiplier re-scales operator-pinned per-model rates. Pinning measured gateway rates of 3.80/19.00 for a *.res.ibm.com host yields 2.888/14.44, a 24% understatement of spend. Confirmed through the real YAML config path.
- plugin-catalog.md:469,481 — Both statements are false for a host with a shipped multiplier: "your gateway prices at yours" and pinning "outranks anything bundled." The multiplier: 1.0 escape hatch is documented at line 428 but framed only as "get vendor list," never as required when pinning real rates.
- cmd_pricing.go:137 — The footer prints "rates above are vendor list scaled by it" unconditionally, contradicting rows whose provenance is configured. Wording should key off provenance.
- drift.go:66 — The dedup key uses raw pctx.Host while rate resolution lowercases and strips ports, so case and port variants of one host get separate seen entries: the same drift warns more than once per endpoint/model and the 256-key budget drains faster.
- drift.go:80 — Reaching maxDriftKeys disables drift detection permanently for the process lifetime; capped has no reset path. In a long-lived proxy, 256 distinct client-supplied host/model pairs silence a spend-correctness diagnostic indefinitely. The tradeoff is documented, so this is a design question rather than a defect.
- PR description — The "Corrections to merged content" section claims tool-prune-plugin.md was fixed, but the file is not in the diff and 1.32x remains at lines 196–203. The table itself is fine (a historical comparison, internally consistent); only the description is wrong.
- PR description — The test cited as a pre-existing failure passes on the PR branch; the failure appears to depend on local CA-bundle state rather than the code.
- ```

…pinned rates

Addresses @esnible's review and CodeRabbit's inline findings.

The drift false-positive (esnible rossoctl#1) does not happen, but the comment that
implied it does was wrong and is the reason the finding was filed. MEASURED
against the gateway (LiteLLM 1.85.5), 16 in + 4 out of claude-opus-5:

  /v1/chat/completions   both headers present, both 0.00013680000000000002
  /v1/messages           only -original, same value

List for those tokens is 0.00018, so both figures are 0.76x list — i.e.
"-original" is what the gateway CHARGED, not a pre-discount price, and the
fallback compares like with like. "Original" refers to LiteLLM's own
discount/margin layer (reported in adjacent headers, 0.0 here), not to the
commercial discount. The constant's doc comment said the opposite; corrected
with the measurement recorded.

What the finding did surface is a real gap: on a gateway that DOES run that
layer, the fallback figure is pre-adjustment. checkDrift now declines to
compare in that case rather than blaming the rate table for the gateway's own
arithmetic. And the fallback path had no drift coverage at all — every
existing test set the bare header — so it has tests now, including the
adjusted case.

- A multiplier weaker than the rates it would scale is dropped (esnible rossoctl#2).
  An operator who measures their gateway and pins per-model rates was having
  the shipped 0.76 applied on top: a 24% UNDERSTATEMENT, the direction this
  package treats as dangerous. Framed as provenance, not a bundled special
  case — a scalar derived from list may only scale list-derived rates. A
  configured multiplier still applies to configured rates.

- `abctl pricing --host` no longer calls operator-pinned rates "vendor list"
  in the footer (esnible rossoctl#3); the wording follows what the rows say.

- Multiplier rules now get both checks rate rows already had (CodeRabbit): a
  port in the pattern can never match, and two rules with one host and
  provenance silently drop a factor. Both fail toward leaving a discounted
  gateway at list.

- The host view carries the above-threshold rates, scaled, on a continuation
  line (CodeRabbit) — naming the breakpoint alone left the operator to apply
  the discount by hand, which is this command's job.

- Drift's dedup key normalizes the host through pricing.EndpointKey, so
  `GW.internal:443` and `gw.internal` are one endpoint, and Configure clears
  the reporter — a reload is the way out of the cap, and quite possibly the
  operator acting on the warning.

- The tolerance period is inclusive: the contract says "more than 5%" and the
  code warned AT 5%. Mutation-checked; the ratio computes to exactly 1.050x.

- Doc snippet pins `--proto '=https'` so a mistyped URL cannot put a bearer
  token on the wire in cleartext (CodeRabbit).

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