Calculate Streaming Token Usage Costs
Company: Anthropic
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Coding & Algorithms
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: Onsite
Overview: Implement an exact usage calculator for language-model API requests with separate input and output token prices. Normalize streaming chunk deltas and non-streaming totals, reject malformed counts, avoid floating-point billing errors, and handle empty or very large workloads.
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