From b6f1a033deda54461feda0a47fa59532aee5c089 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mateo Wang <277851410+mateo-berri@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:14:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat(count_tokens)!: configurable token_count_framing and
 token_count_model, count source in the response (#46777)

Backport of #46777 to stable/1.104.x.
Cherry-picked from 75faaeab641e161a3d6bc38a42fcaa71c5602d90 (main).
---
 litellm/litellm_core_utils/core_helpers.py    |   26 +-
 .../prompt_templates/factory.py               |   22 +
 litellm/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/kimi_k3.py  |  502 ++++++
 .../responses/count_tokens/token_counter.py   |    1 +
 .../llms/vertex_ai/count_tokens/context.py    |   25 +-
 ...odel_prices_and_context_window_backup.json |   28 +-
 .../proxy/anthropic_endpoints/endpoints.py    |    3 +-
 .../common_utils/token_count_settings.py      |  164 ++
 litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/endpoints.py   |   11 +-
 litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py                 |  461 +++++-
 .../proxy/response_api_endpoints/endpoints.py |    5 +-
 litellm/types/llms/vertex_ai.py               |    6 +-
 litellm/types/token_count.py                  |   16 +
 litellm/types/utils.py                        |    9 +
 litellm/utils.py                              |    3 +
 model_prices_and_context_window.json          |   28 +-
 model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json   |   30 +
 ...anthropic_count_tokens_system_lift_wire.py |   24 +-
 .../test_bedrock_mantle_count_tokens_wire.py  |   89 +-
 .../test_vertex_partner_count_tokens_wire.py  |   28 +-
 .../integration/spend/test_cache_and_quota.py |    8 +-
 .../test_google_api_endpoints.py              |   42 +-
 .../test_model_management_endpoints.py        |   48 +
 .../proxy/proxy_server/test_routes_utils.py   |    1 +
 .../count_tokens/test_token_counter.py        |    5 +
 .../count_tokens/test_bedrock_kimi_k3.py      |  524 +++++++
 .../count_tokens/test_token_counter.py        |    5 +
 .../common_utils/test_token_count_settings.py |  190 +++
 tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_token_counter.py  | 1364 ++++++++++++++++-
 .../unit/test_router_model_cost_isolation.py  |   34 +
 tests/unit/test_utils.py                      |    7 +
 ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts |   12 +-
 32 files changed, 3571 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 litellm/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/kimi_k3.py
 create mode 100644 litellm/proxy/common_utils/token_count_settings.py
 create mode 100644 litellm/types/token_count.py
 create mode 100644 tests/unit/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/test_bedrock_kimi_k3.py
 create mode 100644 tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_token_count_settings.py

diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/core_helpers.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/core_helpers.py
index b095b4b12c6..d74007dfccb 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/core_helpers.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/core_helpers.py
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 import copy
 import logging
 import re
-from collections.abc import Collection, Iterable, Mapping
+from collections.abc import Collection, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping
 from types import MappingProxyType
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final, Literal, Protocol
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Final, Literal, Protocol, runtime_checkable
 
 import httpx
 from pydantic import TypeAdapter, ValidationError
@@ -51,6 +51,28 @@ def safe_divide_seconds(seconds: float, denominator: float, default: float | Non
 _DROP_PARAMS_BOOL: Final = TypeAdapter(bool)
 
 
+def as_str_mapping(value: object) -> Mapping[str, object] | None:
+    return value if isinstance(value, Mapping) else None
+
+
+@runtime_checkable
+class _SupportsIter(Protocol):
+    def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[object]: ...
+
+
+@runtime_checkable
+class _SupportsGetItem(Protocol):
+    def __getitem__(self, index: int, /) -> object: ...
+
+
+def iter_items(value: object) -> Iterable[object]:
+    if isinstance(value, _SupportsIter):
+        return value
+    if isinstance(value, _SupportsGetItem):
+        return iter(value)
+    raise TypeError(f"'{type(value).__name__}' object is not iterable")
+
+
 def normalize_drop_params(value: object) -> bool | None:
     if value is None or isinstance(value, bool):
         return value
diff --git a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py
index 7b12d1e939f..26d219a5ebc 100644
--- a/litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py
+++ b/litellm/litellm_core_utils/prompt_templates/factory.py
@@ -5580,3 +5580,25 @@ def resolve_structured_messages(
         if structured:
             return [msg if isinstance(msg, dict) else msg.model_dump() for msg in structured]
     return None
+
+
+def is_flat_responses_tool(tool: Mapping[str, object]) -> bool:
+    tool_type: Final = tool.get("type")
+    return tool_type in ("function", "custom") and tool_type not in tool and "input_schema" not in tool
+
+
+def chat_completion_tools_for(tool: Mapping[str, object]) -> tuple[Mapping[str, object], ...]:
+    from litellm.llms.anthropic.experimental_pass_through.adapters.transformation import LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter
+    from litellm.responses.litellm_completion_transformation.transformation import (
+        LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig,
+    )
+
+    if is_flat_responses_tool(tool):
+        chat_tools, _ = LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig.transform_responses_api_tools_to_chat_completion_tools(
+            [dict(tool)]  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]  # a JSON dict in a flat Responses tool shape
+        )
+        return tuple(chat_tools)
+    anthropic_tools, _ = LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter().translate_anthropic_tools_to_openai(
+        [dict(tool)]  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]  # a JSON dict in an Anthropic or chat tool shape
+    )
+    return tuple(anthropic_tools)
diff --git a/litellm/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/kimi_k3.py b/litellm/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/kimi_k3.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..04ae9fae9c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/litellm/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/kimi_k3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,502 @@
+"""
+Exact Bedrock token counts for Kimi K3, which has no CountTokens support.
+
+Renders the Converse body litellm sends through Moonshot's Kimi K3 chat template and counts it with the
+official tokenizer, downloaded once from Hugging Face at a pinned revision and checked against its SHA-256.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import base64
+import copy
+import hashlib
+import json
+import threading
+import time
+from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Mapping, Sequence
+from concurrent.futures import Future
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from enum import Enum
+from itertools import chain, groupby
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Annotated, Final, Literal, TypeAlias
+
+import regex
+import tiktoken
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field, JsonValue, ValidationError, model_validator
+from typing_extensions import Self
+
+import litellm
+from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
+from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import (
+    chat_completion_tools_for,
+    is_flat_responses_tool,
+)
+from litellm.llms.anthropic.experimental_pass_through.adapters.transformation import LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter
+from litellm.types.llms.openai import AllMessageValues, ChatCompletionToolParam
+
+KIMI_K3_REPO: Final = "moonshotai/Kimi-K3"
+KIMI_K3_REVISION: Final = "f831ab66814297da540d832a5235f8e904f29d06"
+KIMI_K3_RANKS_FILE: Final = "tiktoken.model"
+KIMI_K3_RANKS_SHA256: Final = "b6c497a7469b33ced9c38afb1ad6e47f03f5e5dc05f15930799210ec050c5103"
+_PATTERN: Final = "|".join(
+    (
+        r"[\p{Han}]+",
+        r"[^\r\n\p{L}\p{N}]?[\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lm}\p{Lo}\p{M}&&[^\p{Han}]]*[\p{Ll}\p{Lm}\p{Lo}\p{M}&&[^\p{Han}]]+(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)?",
+        r"[^\r\n\p{L}\p{N}]?[\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lm}\p{Lo}\p{M}&&[^\p{Han}]]+[\p{Ll}\p{Lm}\p{Lo}\p{M}&&[^\p{Han}]]*(?i:'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d)?",
+        r"\p{N}{1,3}",
+        r" ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+[\r\n]*",
+        r"\s*[\r\n]+",
+        r"\s+(?!\S)",
+        r"\s+",
+    )
+)
+# Ends chunks only where the pattern above always splits, so their counts sum to the whole text's count while BPE
+# stays linear. Only a run of over 1024 characters with no such split, like 2000 spaces, is cut mid-piece.
+_CHUNK: Final = regex.compile(
+    r"(?s).{1,1024}(?:(?<=\S)(?= \S)|(?<=\p{N})(?=\P{N})|(?<=[^\s\p{N}])(?=\p{N})|(?<=\p{L})(?=[^\p{L}\p{M}'])"
+    r"|(?<=[\r\n])(?=\S)|\Z)|.{1024}\p{N}*"
+)
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class KimiK3TokenizerSource:
+    ranks_path: Callable[[], str]
+    sha256: str
+
+
+def _hugging_face_ranks_path() -> str:
+    import huggingface_hub
+
+    return huggingface_hub.hf_hub_download(
+        repo_id=KIMI_K3_REPO,
+        filename=KIMI_K3_RANKS_FILE,
+        revision=KIMI_K3_REVISION,
+        local_files_only=litellm.disable_hf_tokenizer_download is True,
+    )
+
+
+HUGGING_FACE_SOURCE: Final = KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=_hugging_face_ranks_path, sha256=KIMI_K3_RANKS_SHA256)
+
+
+def _loaded(source: KimiK3TokenizerSource) -> tiktoken.Encoding | str:
+    try:
+        data: Final = Path(source.ranks_path()).read_bytes()
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001  # a download or read failure of any kind falls back to the estimate
+        return type(e).__name__
+    if hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest() != source.sha256:
+        return "SHA-256 mismatch"
+    rows: Final = (line.split() for line in data.splitlines() if line)
+    return tiktoken.Encoding(
+        name="kimi_k3",
+        pat_str=_PATTERN,
+        mergeable_ranks={base64.b64decode(token): int(rank) for token, rank in rows},
+        special_tokens={},
+    )
+
+
+def load_kimi_k3_encoding(source: KimiK3TokenizerSource) -> tiktoken.Encoding | None:
+    loaded: Final = _loaded(source)
+    if isinstance(loaded, tiktoken.Encoding):
+        return loaded
+    verbose_logger.warning(
+        "Kimi K3 tokenizer unavailable (%s), so Kimi K3 token counts are estimated until a later count loads it. "
+        "Allow downloads of %s from Hugging Face repo %s at revision %s, or put it in the Hugging Face cache",
+        loaded,
+        KIMI_K3_RANKS_FILE,
+        KIMI_K3_REPO,
+        KIMI_K3_REVISION,
+    )
+    return None
+
+
+def _started_load(source: KimiK3TokenizerSource) -> "Future[tiktoken.Encoding | None]":
+    encoding: Final = Future[tiktoken.Encoding | None]()
+    threading.Thread(
+        target=lambda: encoding.set_result(load_kimi_k3_encoding(source)), name="litellm-kimi-k3-tokenizer", daemon=True
+    ).start()
+    return encoding
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _EncodingLoad:
+    encoding: "Future[tiktoken.Encoding | None]"
+    started_at: float
+    is_retry: bool
+
+    def retry_due(self, now: float, retry_after_seconds: float) -> bool:
+        return self.encoding.done() and self.encoding.result() is None and now - self.started_at >= retry_after_seconds
+
+
+@dataclass(slots=True)
+class KimiK3Encodings:
+    source: KimiK3TokenizerSource
+    retry_after_seconds: float
+    clock: Callable[[], float] = time.monotonic
+    current: _EncodingLoad | None = None
+
+    def _load(self) -> _EncodingLoad:
+        now: Final = self.clock()
+        current: Final = self.current
+        if current is not None and not current.retry_due(now, self.retry_after_seconds):
+            return current
+        load: Final = _EncodingLoad(encoding=_started_load(self.source), started_at=now, is_retry=current is not None)
+        self.current = load
+        return load
+
+    async def encoding(self, wait_seconds: float) -> tiktoken.Encoding | None:
+        load: Final = self._load()
+        remaining: Final = 0 if load.is_retry else load.started_at + wait_seconds - self.clock()
+        if load.encoding.done() or remaining <= 0:
+            return load.encoding.result() if load.encoding.done() else None
+        await asyncio.wait((asyncio.wrap_future(load.encoding),), timeout=remaining)
+        if load.encoding.done():
+            return load.encoding.result()
+        verbose_logger.warning(
+            "Kimi K3 tokenizer still loading after %s s, so Kimi K3 token counts are estimated until it loads. "
+            "Check that %s can be downloaded from Hugging Face repo %s at revision %s, or put it in the Hugging Face cache",
+            wait_seconds,
+            KIMI_K3_RANKS_FILE,
+            KIMI_K3_REPO,
+            KIMI_K3_REVISION,
+        )
+        return None
+
+
+class _Converse(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="forbid")
+
+
+class _Text(_Converse):
+    text: str
+
+
+class _CachePoint(_Converse):
+    cache_point: JsonValue = Field(alias="cachePoint")
+
+
+class _ToolUse(_Converse):
+    tool_use_id: str = Field(alias="toolUseId")
+    name: str
+    arguments: Mapping[str, JsonValue] = Field(alias="input")
+
+
+class _ToolUseBlock(_Converse):
+    tool_use: _ToolUse = Field(alias="toolUse")
+
+
+class _ToolResult(_Converse):
+    tool_use_id: str = Field(alias="toolUseId")
+    content: tuple[_Text, ...]
+    status: str | None = None
+
+
+class _ToolResultBlock(_Converse):
+    tool_result: _ToolResult = Field(alias="toolResult")
+
+
+class _ReasoningText(_Converse):
+    text: str
+    signature: str | None = None
+
+
+class _Reasoning(_Converse):
+    reasoning_text: _ReasoningText = Field(alias="reasoningText")
+
+
+class _ReasoningBlock(_Converse):
+    reasoning_content: _Reasoning = Field(alias="reasoningContent")
+
+
+class _UserMessage(_Converse):
+    role: Literal["user"]
+    content: tuple[_Text | _ToolResultBlock | _CachePoint, ...]
+
+
+class _AssistantMessage(_Converse):
+    role: Literal["assistant"]
+    content: tuple[_Text | _ToolUseBlock | _ReasoningBlock | _CachePoint, ...]
+
+    def calls(self) -> tuple[_ToolUse, ...]:
+        return tuple(block.tool_use for block in self.content if isinstance(block, _ToolUseBlock))
+
+
+class _InputSchema(_Converse):
+    definition: JsonValue = Field(alias="json")
+
+
+class _ToolSpec(_Converse):
+    name: str
+    description: str | None = None
+    input_schema: _InputSchema = Field(alias="inputSchema")
+
+    def declared(self) -> Mapping[str, JsonValue]:
+        described: Final[Mapping[str, JsonValue]] = (
+            {} if self.description is None else {"description": self.description}
+        )
+        return {"name": self.name, **described, "parameters": self.input_schema.definition}
+
+
+class _ToolSpecBlock(_Converse):
+    tool_spec: _ToolSpec = Field(alias="toolSpec")
+
+
+class _ToolConfig(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="ignore")
+    tools: tuple[_ToolSpecBlock | _CachePoint, ...]
+
+
+_Message: TypeAlias = Annotated[_UserMessage | _AssistantMessage, Field(discriminator="role")]
+
+
+def _result_ids(message: _Message) -> frozenset[str]:
+    if isinstance(message, _AssistantMessage):
+        return frozenset()
+    return frozenset(block.tool_result.tool_use_id for block in message.content if isinstance(block, _ToolResultBlock))
+
+
+def _call_ids(message: _Message | None) -> frozenset[str]:
+    if not isinstance(message, _AssistantMessage):
+        return frozenset()
+    return frozenset(call.tool_use_id for call in message.calls())
+
+
+class _ConverseRequest(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="ignore")
+    messages: tuple[_Message, ...]
+    system: tuple[_Text | _CachePoint, ...] = ()
+    tool_config: _ToolConfig | None = Field(default=None, alias="toolConfig")
+
+    @model_validator(mode="after")
+    def _results_answer_the_previous_calls(self) -> Self:
+        pairs: Final = zip((None, *self.messages), self.messages, strict=False)
+        if not all(_result_ids(message) <= _call_ids(previous) for previous, message in pairs):
+            raise ValueError("a toolResult does not answer a toolUse of the previous assistant message")
+        return self
+
+
+class _Control(Enum):
+    OPEN = "<|open|>"
+    CLOSE = "<|close|>"
+    SEP = "<|sep|>"
+    END_OF_MSG = "<|end_of_msg|>"
+
+
+_Segment: TypeAlias = str | _Control
+_Segments: TypeAlias = tuple[_Segment, ...]
+
+
+def _open(tag: str, attrs: Iterable[tuple[str, str]] = ()) -> _Segments:
+    escaped: Final = (
+        (f" {key}", '="', value.replace("&", "&amp;").replace('"', "&quot;"), '"') for key, value in attrs
+    )
+    return (_Control.OPEN, tag, *chain.from_iterable(escaped), _Control.SEP)
+
+
+def _close(tag: str) -> _Segments:
+    return (_Control.CLOSE, tag, _Control.SEP)
+
+
+def _message(attrs: Iterable[tuple[str, str]], body: Iterable[_Segment]) -> _Segments:
+    return (*_open("message", attrs), *body, *_close("message"), _Control.END_OF_MSG)
+
+
+def _tool_declare(specs: Sequence[_ToolSpec]) -> _Segments:
+    tools: Final = json.dumps(
+        [{"type": "function", "function": spec.declared()} for spec in specs],
+        ensure_ascii=False,
+        separators=(",", ":"),
+        sort_keys=True,
+    )
+    return _message(
+        (("role", "system"), ("type", "tool-declare")),
+        (f"# Tools\nHere are the available tools, described in JSONSchema.\n\n```json\n{tools}\n```",),
+    )
+
+
+def _text(blocks: Iterable[_Converse]) -> str:
+    return "".join(block.text for block in blocks if isinstance(block, _Text))
+
+
+def _json_type(value: JsonValue) -> str:
+    match value:
+        case bool():
+            return "boolean"
+        case None:
+            return "null"
+        case int() | float():
+            return "number"
+        case str():
+            return "string"
+        case dict():
+            return "object"
+        case _:
+            return "array"
+
+
+def _argument(key: str, value: JsonValue) -> _Segments:
+    text: Final = value if isinstance(value, str) else json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False)
+    return (*_open("argument", (("key", key), ("type", _json_type(value)))), text, *_close("argument"))
+
+
+def _call(index: int, call: _ToolUse) -> _Segments:
+    arguments: Final = chain.from_iterable(_argument(key, value) for key, value in call.arguments.items())
+    return (*_open("call", (("tool", call.name), ("index", str(index)))), *arguments, *_close("call"))
+
+
+def _tool_calls(calls: Sequence[_ToolUse]) -> _Segments:
+    if not calls:
+        return ()
+    rendered: Final = chain.from_iterable(_call(index, call) for index, call in enumerate(calls, start=1))
+    return (*_open("tools"), *rendered, *_close("tools"))
+
+
+def _assistant_message(message: _AssistantMessage) -> _Segments:
+    reasoning: Final = "".join(
+        block.reasoning_content.reasoning_text.text for block in message.content if isinstance(block, _ReasoningBlock)
+    )
+    return _message(
+        (("role", "assistant"),),
+        (
+            *_open("think"),
+            reasoning,
+            *_close("think"),
+            *_open("response"),
+            _text(message.content),
+            *_close("response"),
+            *_tool_calls(message.calls()),
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+def _tool_messages(results: Sequence[_ToolResult], previous: _AssistantMessage) -> _Segments:
+    names: Final = {call.tool_use_id: call.name for call in previous.calls()}
+    return tuple(
+        chain.from_iterable(
+            _message(
+                (("role", "tool"), ("tool", names[result.tool_use_id]), ("index", str(index))),
+                (_text(result.content),),
+            )
+            for index, result in enumerate(results, start=1)
+        )
+    )
+
+
+def _user_run(blocks: Sequence[_Text | _ToolResultBlock], previous: _Message | None) -> _Segments:
+    results: Final = tuple(block.tool_result for block in blocks if isinstance(block, _ToolResultBlock))
+    if results and isinstance(previous, _AssistantMessage):
+        return _tool_messages(results, previous)
+    return _message((("role", "user"),), (_text(blocks),))
+
+
+def _user_messages(message: _UserMessage, previous: _Message | None) -> _Segments:
+    blocks: Final = tuple(block for block in message.content if not isinstance(block, _CachePoint))
+    runs: Final = groupby(blocks, key=lambda block: isinstance(block, _ToolResultBlock))
+    return tuple(chain.from_iterable(_user_run(tuple(run), previous) for _, run in runs))
+
+
+def _turn(previous: _Message | None, message: _Message) -> _Segments:
+    if isinstance(message, _AssistantMessage):
+        return _assistant_message(message)
+    return _user_messages(message, previous)
+
+
+def _rendered(request: _ConverseRequest) -> _Segments:
+    specs: Final = (
+        ()
+        if request.tool_config is None
+        else tuple(block.tool_spec for block in request.tool_config.tools if isinstance(block, _ToolSpecBlock))
+    )
+    system: Final = _text(request.system)
+    turns: Final = chain.from_iterable(
+        _turn(previous, message) for previous, message in zip((None, *request.messages), request.messages, strict=False)
+    )
+    return (
+        *(_tool_declare(specs) if specs else ()),
+        *(_message((("role", "system"),), (system,)) if system else ()),
+        *turns,
+        *_open("message", (("role", "assistant"),)),
+        *_open("think"),
+    )
+
+
+def _text_tokens(encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, text: str) -> int:
+    spans: Final = (match.span() for match in _CHUNK.finditer(text))
+    return sum(len(encoding.encode_ordinary(text[start:end])) for start, end in spans)
+
+
+class _TextPart(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="ignore")
+    type: Literal["text"]
+
+
+class _TextOnlyMessage(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="ignore")
+    content: str | tuple[_TextPart, ...] | None = None
+
+
+def _text_only(message: AllMessageValues) -> bool:
+    try:
+        _TextOnlyMessage.model_validate(message)
+    except ValidationError:
+        return False
+    return True
+
+
+def _as_converse_input(tool: ChatCompletionToolParam) -> tuple[Mapping[str, object], ...]:
+    return chat_completion_tools_for(tool) if is_flat_responses_tool(tool) else (tool,)
+
+
+def _converse_request(
+    model: str, messages: Sequence[AllMessageValues], tools: Sequence[ChatCompletionToolParam] | None
+) -> _ConverseRequest | None:
+    if not all(_text_only(message) for message in messages):
+        return None
+    try:
+        chat_tools: Final = tuple(
+            chat_tool for tool in tools or () for chat_tool in _as_converse_input(tool)
+        )  # comprehension-ok: flattens each tool's translation
+        return _ConverseRequest.model_validate(
+            litellm.AmazonConverseConfig().transform_request(
+                model=model,
+                messages=copy.deepcopy(list(messages)),
+                optional_params={"tools": copy.deepcopy(list(chat_tools))} if chat_tools else {},
+                litellm_params={},
+                headers={},
+            )
+        )
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001  # a body litellm cannot send to Bedrock, or cannot render, falls back to the estimate
+        return None
+
+
+def kimi_k3_tokens(
+    encoding: tiktoken.Encoding,
+    model: str,
+    messages: Sequence[AllMessageValues],
+    tools: Sequence[ChatCompletionToolParam] | None,
+) -> int | None:
+    request: Final = _converse_request(model, messages, tools)
+    if request is None:
+        return None
+    return sum(
+        1 if isinstance(segment, _Control) else _text_tokens(encoding, segment) for segment in _rendered(request)
+    )
+
+
+def kimi_k3_anthropic_tokens(encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, model: str, fields: Mapping[str, object]) -> int | None:
+    body: Final = {**fields, "model": model, "max_tokens": 1}
+    try:
+        translated, _ = LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter().translate_anthropic_to_openai(
+            copy.deepcopy(body),  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]  # raw /v1/messages fields
+            custom_llm_provider="bedrock",
+        )
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001  # a request the adapter cannot translate falls back to the estimate
+        return None
+    match translated:
+        case {"tools": tools}:
+            return kimi_k3_tokens(encoding, model, translated["messages"], tools)
+        case _:
+            return kimi_k3_tokens(encoding, model, translated["messages"], None)
+
+
+def kimi_k3_template_tokens(message_count: int, has_tools: bool) -> int:
+    return 14 + 13 * max(message_count - 1, 0) + (40 if has_tools else 0)
diff --git a/litellm/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/token_counter.py b/litellm/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/token_counter.py
index bdaea0b4104..b34b6fbce2f 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/token_counter.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/token_counter.py
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ class OpenAITokenCounter(BaseTokenCounter):
                 error=True,
                 error_message=request_error,
                 status_code=400,
+                rejected_before_provider_call=True,
             )
 
         deployment = deployment or {}
diff --git a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/count_tokens/context.py b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/count_tokens/context.py
index 3c9c30b4a29..62503bf2aa6 100644
--- a/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/count_tokens/context.py
+++ b/litellm/llms/vertex_ai/count_tokens/context.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Final, Literal
 from pydantic import JsonValue, TypeAdapter, ValidationError
 from typing_extensions import assert_never
 
+from litellm.litellm_core_utils.prompt_templates.factory import chat_completion_tools_for
 from litellm.types.llms.anthropic import AnthropicMessagesTextParam
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import AllMessageValues
 from litellm.types.llms.vertex_ai import ContentType
@@ -70,27 +71,6 @@ def _is_function_tool(tool: Mapping[str, JsonValue]) -> bool:
     return isinstance(tool.get("name"), str) or "input_schema" in tool or "function" in tool
 
 
-def _is_responses_function_tool(tool: Mapping[str, JsonValue]) -> bool:
-    return tool.get("type") == "function" and "function" not in tool and "input_schema" not in tool
-
-
-def _chat_tool(tool: Mapping[str, JsonValue]) -> tuple[Mapping[str, object], ...]:
-    from litellm.llms.anthropic.experimental_pass_through.adapters.transformation import LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter
-    from litellm.responses.litellm_completion_transformation.transformation import (
-        LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig,
-    )
-
-    if _is_responses_function_tool(tool):
-        chat_tools, _ = LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig.transform_responses_api_tools_to_chat_completion_tools(
-            [dict(tool)]  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]  # validated JSON dict in the Responses function tool shape
-        )
-        return tuple(chat_tools)
-    anthropic_tools, _ = LiteLLMAnthropicMessagesAdapter().translate_anthropic_tools_to_openai(
-        [dict(tool)]  # pyright: ignore[reportArgumentType]  # validated JSON dict in an Anthropic or chat tool shape
-    )
-    return tuple(anthropic_tools)
-
-
 def _map_function_tools(
     tools: object | None,
 ) -> tuple[Mapping[str, object], ...] | None | VertexGeminiCountContextError:
@@ -107,7 +87,7 @@ def _map_function_tools(
     from litellm.llms.vertex_ai.gemini.vertex_and_google_ai_studio_gemini import VertexGeminiConfig
 
     chat_tools: Final = tuple(
-        chat_tool for tool in function_tools for chat_tool in _chat_tool(tool)
+        chat_tool for tool in function_tools for chat_tool in chat_completion_tools_for(tool)
     )  # comprehension-ok: flattens each tool's translation
     try:
         mapped_tools: Final = VertexGeminiConfig()._map_function(  # pyright: ignore[reportPrivateUsage]  # the tool mapping inference uses
@@ -158,6 +138,7 @@ def count_context_error_response(
         error=True,
         error_message=error.error_message,
         status_code=400,
+        rejected_before_provider_call=True,
     )
 
 
diff --git a/litellm/model_prices_and_context_window_backup.json b/litellm/model_prices_and_context_window_backup.json
index d89c8baf9b0..9635cf3ce72 100644
--- a/litellm/model_prices_and_context_window_backup.json
+++ b/litellm/model_prices_and_context_window_backup.json
@@ -19337,7 +19337,13 @@
         "supports_prompt_caching": true,
         "supports_reasoning": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": false
+        "supports_vision": false,
+        "token_count_framing": 97
+    },
+    "databricks/system.ai.deepseek-v4-flash-0731": {
+        "litellm_provider": "databricks",
+        "mode": "chat",
+        "token_count_framing": 97
     },
     "databricks/databricks-deepseek-v4-pro-0813": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 1.31999e-06,
@@ -20328,7 +20334,13 @@
         "supports_prompt_caching": true,
         "supports_reasoning": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 100
+    },
+    "databricks/system.ai.kimi-k3": {
+        "litellm_provider": "databricks",
+        "mode": "chat",
+        "token_count_framing": 100
     },
     "databricks/databricks-llama-4-maverick": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 5.0001e-07,
@@ -75642,7 +75654,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "global.moonshotai.kimi-k3": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 3.75e-06,
@@ -75662,7 +75676,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 4.125e-06,
@@ -75682,7 +75698,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "openrouter/xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash": {
         "cache_read_input_token_cost": 2.8e-09,
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/anthropic_endpoints/endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/anthropic_endpoints/endpoints.py
index 210bd5a8bfd..98e1cf92026 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/anthropic_endpoints/endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/anthropic_endpoints/endpoints.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.common_utils.openai_error_payload import (
     openai_error_type,
     with_litellm_call_id,
 )
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import count_source_fields
 
 router: Final = APIRouter()
 
@@ -366,7 +367,7 @@ async def count_tokens(
         log_llm_api_exception(e, litellm_call_id)
         return _anthropic_error_json_response(proxy_exception_from_route_error(e), request)
     else:
-        return {"input_tokens": token_response.total_tokens}
+        return {"input_tokens": token_response.total_tokens, **count_source_fields(token_response)}
 
 
 @router.post(
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/common_utils/token_count_settings.py b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/token_count_settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6f805616820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/litellm/proxy/common_utils/token_count_settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping
+from dataclasses import dataclass, replace
+from types import MappingProxyType
+from typing import Final, Literal
+
+from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, ValidationError
+
+import litellm
+from litellm.anthropic_interface.exceptions.exception_mapping_utils import AnthropicExceptionMapping
+from litellm.litellm_core_utils.core_helpers import as_str_mapping
+from litellm.proxy._types import ProxyException
+from litellm.types.token_count import TokenCountSourceFields, TokenCountTokenizer
+from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
+
+CANNOT_COUNT_MODEL_STATUSES: Final = frozenset({400, 404})
+TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS: Final = 5.0
+TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS: Final = 60.0
+TOKENIZER_LOAD_MAX_RUNNING: Final = 4
+
+
+class _UpstreamErrorDetail(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="allow")
+    message: str
+
+
+class _UpstreamErrorEnvelope(BaseModel):
+    model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True, extra="allow")
+    type: Literal["error"]
+    error: _UpstreamErrorDetail
+
+
+def _joined(message: str, hint: str) -> str:
+    return f"{message.rstrip().rstrip('.')}. {hint}"
+
+
+def _with_hint(message: str, hint: str) -> str:
+    try:
+        envelope: Final = _UpstreamErrorEnvelope.model_validate_json(message)
+    except ValidationError:
+        return _joined(AnthropicExceptionMapping.extract_error_message(message), hint)
+    detail: Final = envelope.error.model_copy(update={"message": _joined(envelope.error.message, hint)})
+    return envelope.model_copy(update={"error": detail}).model_dump_json()
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class TokenCountModel:
+    model: str
+    region: str | None
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class TokenCountSettings:
+    framing: int | None
+    count_model: TokenCountModel | None
+    tokenizer: TokenCountTokenizer | None = None
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class ProviderCountFailure:
+    status_code: int
+    message: str
+    rejected_before_provider_call: bool = False
+
+    @property
+    def cannot_count_model(self) -> bool:
+        return not self.rejected_before_provider_call and self.status_code in CANNOT_COUNT_MODEL_STATUSES
+
+    def with_hint(self, hint: str) -> "ProviderCountFailure":
+        return replace(self, message=_with_hint(self.message, hint))
+
+    def to_proxy_exception(self) -> ProxyException:
+        return ProxyException(
+            message=self.message,
+            type="token_counting_error",
+            param="model",
+            code=self.status_code,
+        )
+
+
+def cost_map_entry(model: str, custom_llm_provider: str | None = None) -> Mapping[str, object]:
+    try:
+        return litellm.get_model_info(model=model, custom_llm_provider=custom_llm_provider)
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001  # get_model_info raises bare Exception for unmapped models
+        return MappingProxyType({})
+
+
+def _framing(value: object) -> int | None:
+    match value:
+        case bool():
+            return None
+        case int() if value >= 0:
+            return value
+        case float() if value.is_integer() and value >= 0:
+            return int(value)
+        case _:
+            return None
+
+
+def _non_blank(value: object) -> str | None:
+    return value if isinstance(value, str) and value.strip() else None
+
+
+def _count_model(value: Mapping[str, object]) -> TokenCountModel | None:
+    model: Final = _non_blank(value.get("model"))
+    return None if model is None else TokenCountModel(model=model, region=_non_blank(value.get("region")))
+
+
+def _geography(region: str) -> str:
+    return region.rsplit("-", 2)[0]
+
+
+def _within_deployment_geography(
+    count_model: TokenCountModel | None, deployment_region: Callable[[], str]
+) -> TokenCountModel | None:
+    if count_model is None or count_model.region is None or count_model.model.startswith("global."):
+        return count_model
+    if _geography(deployment_region()) == _geography(count_model.region):
+        return count_model
+    return replace(count_model, region=None)
+
+
+def _resolved_count_model(
+    configured: object, default: object, deployment_region: Callable[[], str]
+) -> TokenCountModel | None:
+    configured_mapping: Final = as_str_mapping(configured)
+    if configured_mapping is not None:
+        return _count_model(configured_mapping)
+    default_mapping: Final = as_str_mapping(default)
+    return (
+        None
+        if default_mapping is None
+        else _within_deployment_geography(_count_model(default_mapping), deployment_region)
+    )
+
+
+def _tokenizer(value: object) -> TokenCountTokenizer | None:
+    match value:
+        case "kimi_k3":
+            return "kimi_k3"
+        case _:
+            return None
+
+
+def resolve_token_count_settings(
+    configured: Mapping[str, object], default: Mapping[str, object], deployment_region: Callable[[], str]
+) -> TokenCountSettings:
+    framing: Final = _framing(configured.get("token_count_framing"))
+    return TokenCountSettings(
+        framing=framing if framing is not None else _framing(default.get("token_count_framing")),
+        count_model=_resolved_count_model(
+            configured.get("token_count_model"), default.get("token_count_model"), deployment_region
+        ),
+        tokenizer=_tokenizer(default.get("token_count_tokenizer")),
+    )
+
+
+def count_source_fields(response: TokenCountResponse) -> TokenCountSourceFields:
+    match response.count_source:
+        case None:
+            return {}
+        case "token_count_model":
+            return {"litellm_count_source": "token_count_model", "litellm_count_model": response.model_used}
+        case source:
+            return {"litellm_count_source": source}
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/endpoints.py
index 818fd1ad516..5fbe780379e 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/endpoints.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.common_request_processing import (
     resolve_litellm_call_id,
 )
 from litellm.proxy.common_utils.http_parsing_utils import _read_request_body
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import count_source_fields
 from litellm.types.llms.vertex_ai import TokenCountDetailsResponse
 
 
@@ -306,10 +307,12 @@ async def google_count_tokens(request: Request, model_name: str):
             ProxyException(message="Internal server error", type="internal_server_error", param=None, code=500),
         )
     original_response: Final[dict] = token_response.original_response or {}
-    return TokenCountDetailsResponse(
-        totalTokens=original_response.get("totalTokens") or token_response.total_tokens or 0,
-        promptTokensDetails=original_response.get("promptTokensDetails", []),
-    )
+    counted: Final[TokenCountDetailsResponse] = {
+        "totalTokens": original_response.get("totalTokens") or token_response.total_tokens or 0,
+        "promptTokensDetails": original_response.get("promptTokensDetails", []),
+        **count_source_fields(token_response),
+    }
+    return counted
 
 
 # ============================================================
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
index ee1e8647bf2..8369e79596c 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from collections.abc import (
     MutableMapping,
     Sequence,
 )
+from dataclasses import dataclass
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from itertools import chain
 from types import MappingProxyType, UnionType
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ from typing import (
 )
 
 import anyio
+import anyio.lowlevel
 import websockets
 import websockets.exceptions
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Json, JsonValue, TypeAdapter, ValidationError
@@ -87,6 +89,13 @@ from litellm.litellm_core_utils.litellm_logging import (
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.safe_json_dumps import safe_dumps
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.safe_json_loads import safe_json_loads
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.token_counter import offload_token_count
+from litellm.llms.bedrock.count_tokens.kimi_k3 import (
+    HUGGING_FACE_SOURCE,
+    KimiK3Encodings,
+    kimi_k3_anthropic_tokens,
+    kimi_k3_template_tokens,
+    kimi_k3_tokens,
+)
 from litellm.proxy._types import (
     UI_TEAM_ID,
     CallbackDelete,
@@ -133,6 +142,15 @@ from litellm.proxy.common_utils.callback_utils import (
     strip_callback_config,
 )
 from litellm.proxy.common_utils.realtime_utils import _realtime_request_body
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import (
+    TOKENIZER_LOAD_MAX_RUNNING,
+    TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS,
+    TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS,
+    ProviderCountFailure,
+    TokenCountSettings,
+    cost_map_entry,
+    resolve_token_count_settings,
+)
 from litellm.proxy.management_helpers.auto_router_availability import AutoRouterCatalogEntry, build_auto_router_catalog
 from litellm.router_utils.access_windows import access_windows_config_error
 from litellm.router_utils.add_retry_fallback_headers import (
@@ -278,6 +296,7 @@ from litellm.constants import (
     CLI_SSO_SESSION_TTL_SECONDS,
     DAYS_IN_A_MONTH,
     DEFAULT_HEALTH_CHECK_INTERVAL,
+    DEFAULT_MAX_LRU_CACHE_SIZE,
     DEFAULT_MODEL_CREATED_AT_TIME,
     GLOBAL_PROXY_SPEND_CACHE_KEY,
     LITELLM_PROXY_ADMIN_NAME,
@@ -308,8 +327,10 @@ from litellm.litellm_core_utils.agentic_loop_settings import (
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.audio_utils.utils import resolve_speech_media_type
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.core_helpers import (
     _get_parent_otel_span_from_kwargs,
+    as_str_mapping,
     drop_params_flag,
     get_litellm_metadata_from_kwargs,
+    iter_items,
 )
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.credential_accessor import CredentialAccessor
 from litellm.litellm_core_utils.litellm_logging import Logging as LiteLLMLoggingObj
@@ -880,7 +901,13 @@ from litellm.types.secret_managers.main import (
     KeyManagementSettings,
     KeyManagementSystem,
 )
-from litellm.types.utils import CredentialItem, CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer, RawRequestTypedDict, StandardLoggingPayload
+from litellm.types.utils import (
+    CredentialItem,
+    CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer,
+    RawRequestTypedDict,
+    SelectTokenizerResponse,
+    StandardLoggingPayload,
+)
 from litellm.types.utils import ModelInfo as ModelMapInfo
 from litellm.utils import _add_custom_logger_callback_to_specific_event
 
@@ -13614,24 +13641,35 @@ async def _try_provider_token_count(
     provider_counter: "BaseTokenCounter",
     custom_llm_provider: str | None,
     model_to_use: str,
+    region: str | None,
     messages: list | None,
     contents: list | None,
-    deployment: dict[str, Any] | None,
+    deployment: Mapping[str, object] | None,
     request_model: str,
     tools: list | None = None,
     system: str | None = None,
     messages_format: TokenCountMessagesFormat = "openai",
     output_format: JsonValue = None,
-) -> Optional["TokenCountResponse"]:
-    """Attempt provider-specific token counting. Returns result on success, None to fall through to local counting."""
+) -> Union["TokenCountResponse", ProviderCountFailure, None]:
+    """Attempt provider-specific token counting. Returns None to fall through to local counting."""
     if not provider_counter.should_use_token_counting_api(custom_llm_provider=custom_llm_provider):
         return None
+    deployment_in_region: Final = (
+        None
+        if deployment is None
+        else dict(deployment)
+        if region is None
+        else {
+            **deployment,
+            "litellm_params": {**(as_str_mapping(deployment.get("litellm_params")) or {}), "aws_region_name": region},
+        }
+    )
     try:
         result: Final = await provider_counter.count_tokens(
             model_to_use=model_to_use or "",
             messages=messages,
             contents=contents,
-            deployment=deployment,
+            deployment=deployment_in_region,
             request_model=request_model,
             tools=tools,
             system=system,
@@ -13639,24 +13677,325 @@ async def _try_provider_token_count(
             output_format=output_format,
         )
     except httpx.HTTPStatusError as e:
-        error_message: Final = getattr(e, "message", None) or str(e)
-        status_code: Final = getattr(e, "status_code", None) or e.response.status_code
-        raise ProxyException(
-            message=error_message,
-            type="token_counting_error",
-            param="model",
-            code=status_code,
+        return ProviderCountFailure(
+            status_code=getattr(e, "status_code", None) or e.response.status_code,
+            message=getattr(e, "message", None) or str(e),
         )
     if result is not None and result.error is True:
-        raise ProxyException(
+        return ProviderCountFailure(
+            status_code=result.status_code or 500,
             message=result.error_message or "Token counting failed",
-            type="token_counting_error",
-            param="model",
-            code=result.status_code or 500,
+            rejected_before_provider_call=result.rejected_before_provider_call,
         )
     return result
 
 
+async def _provider_token_count(
+    count_with: Callable[[str, str | None], Awaitable[Union["TokenCountResponse", ProviderCountFailure, None]]],
+    model_to_use: str,
+    settings: TokenCountSettings,
+    local_estimate_allowed: bool,
+) -> Union["TokenCountResponse", ProviderCountFailure, None]:
+    """Count with the provider, using the token_count_model in its region when one is set.
+
+    Returns None when the count should be estimated locally, or the provider's failure when the framed local
+    estimate stands in for it and that failure is the answer if the estimate cannot read the request."""
+    count_model: Final = settings.count_model
+    counted: Final = await (
+        count_with(model_to_use, None) if count_model is None else count_with(count_model.model, count_model.region)
+    )
+    if counted is None:
+        return None
+    if isinstance(counted, TokenCountResponse):
+        if count_model is None:
+            return counted.model_copy(update={"count_source": "provider"})
+        return counted.model_copy(update={"count_source": "token_count_model", "model_used": count_model.model})
+    failure: Final = (
+        counted
+        if count_model is None or count_model.region is None
+        else counted.with_hint(
+            f"This model counts tokens with {count_model.model} in {count_model.region}. "
+            "If that region is not enabled for the AWS account, enable it or set token_count_model in model_info"
+        )
+    )
+    if count_model is None and failure.cannot_count_model and settings.framing is not None and local_estimate_allowed:
+        return failure
+    raise failure.to_proxy_exception()
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _LocalTokenEstimate:
+    total_tokens: int
+    tokenizer_type: str
+
+
+def _is_fork_guard_error(error: BaseException) -> bool:
+    from litellm.rust_bridge.fork_guard import ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted, ProcessReservedForForking
+
+    return isinstance(error, (ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted, ProcessReservedForForking))
+
+
+def _is_tokenizer_panic(error: BaseException) -> bool:
+    return type(error).__module__ == "pyo3_runtime" and type(error).__name__ == "PanicException"
+
+
+def _answers_provider_error(error: BaseException) -> bool:
+    return (isinstance(error, Exception) or _is_tokenizer_panic(error)) and not _is_fork_guard_error(error)
+
+
+def _provider_error_after_failed_estimate(
+    provider_failure: ProviderCountFailure, error: BaseException
+) -> ProxyException:
+    verbose_proxy_logger.warning(
+        "Local token estimate failed after the provider's count error %s, answering that error: %s",
+        provider_failure.status_code,
+        type(error).__name__,
+    )
+    return provider_failure.to_proxy_exception()
+
+
+async def _estimate_or_provider_error(estimate: Awaitable[int], provider_failure: ProviderCountFailure) -> int:
+    try:
+        return await estimate
+    except BaseException as e:
+        if not _answers_provider_error(e):
+            raise
+        raise _provider_error_after_failed_estimate(provider_failure, e) from e
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _CustomTokenizerKey:
+    identifier: str
+    revision: str
+    auth_token: str | None
+
+
+class _TokenizerLoadsBusy(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _TokenizerLoadOutcome:
+    tokenizer: SelectTokenizerResponse | BaseException
+    finished_at: float
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
+class _SharedTokenizerLoad:
+    outcome: asyncio.Task[_TokenizerLoadOutcome]
+    started_at: float
+
+    def reusable(self, now: float) -> bool:
+        return not self.outcome.done() or now - self.outcome.result().finished_at < TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS
+
+
+async def _loaded_tokenizer(
+    model: str, custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None, threads: anyio.CapacityLimiter
+) -> SelectTokenizerResponse | BaseException:
+    try:
+        return await asyncify(litellm.utils._select_tokenizer, limiter=threads)(
+            model=model, custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer
+        )
+    except asyncio.CancelledError:
+        raise
+    except BaseException as e:  # noqa: BLE001  # every count sharing this load decides what it answers, pyo3 panics included
+        return e
+
+
+async def _tokenizer_load_outcome(
+    model: str, custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None, threads: anyio.CapacityLimiter
+) -> _TokenizerLoadOutcome:
+    tokenizer: Final = await _loaded_tokenizer(model, custom_tokenizer, threads)
+    return _TokenizerLoadOutcome(tokenizer=tokenizer, finished_at=asyncio.get_running_loop().time())
+
+
+@dataclass(slots=True)
+class _TokenizerLoads:
+    threads: anyio.CapacityLimiter
+    running: int = 0
+
+    def start(
+        self, model: str, custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None, loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop
+    ) -> _SharedTokenizerLoad | None:
+        if self.running >= self.threads.total_tokens:
+            return None
+        self.running += 1
+        outcome: Final = loop.create_task(_tokenizer_load_outcome(model, custom_tokenizer, self.threads))
+        outcome.add_done_callback(self._finished)
+        return _SharedTokenizerLoad(outcome=outcome, started_at=loop.time())
+
+    def _finished(self, _outcome: asyncio.Task[_TokenizerLoadOutcome]) -> None:
+        self.running -= 1
+
+
+_TOKENIZER_LOADS: Final = anyio.lowlevel.RunVar[_TokenizerLoads]("litellm_proxy_tokenizer_loads")
+
+
+def _tokenizer_loads_for_this_loop() -> _TokenizerLoads:
+    existing: Final = _TOKENIZER_LOADS.get(None)
+    if existing is not None:
+        return existing
+    created: Final = _TokenizerLoads(threads=anyio.CapacityLimiter(TOKENIZER_LOAD_MAX_RUNNING))
+    _TOKENIZER_LOADS.set(created)
+    return created
+
+
+@dataclass(slots=True)
+class _TokenizerLoadSlot:
+    model: str
+    custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None
+    current: _SharedTokenizerLoad | None = None
+
+    def load(self, loads: _TokenizerLoads, loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop) -> _SharedTokenizerLoad | None:
+        current: Final = self.current
+        if current is not None and current.reusable(loop.time()):
+            return current
+        self.current = loads.start(self.model, self.custom_tokenizer, loop)
+        return self.current
+
+
+@lru_cache(maxsize=DEFAULT_MAX_LRU_CACHE_SIZE)
+def _tokenizer_load_slot(
+    model: str, custom_tokenizer: _CustomTokenizerKey | None, loop: asyncio.AbstractEventLoop
+) -> _TokenizerLoadSlot:
+    return _TokenizerLoadSlot(
+        model=model,
+        custom_tokenizer=None
+        if custom_tokenizer is None
+        else CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer(
+            identifier=custom_tokenizer.identifier,
+            revision=custom_tokenizer.revision,
+            auth_token=custom_tokenizer.auth_token,
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+async def _tokenizer_after_provider_error(
+    model: str, custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None
+) -> SelectTokenizerResponse | BaseException:
+    loop: Final = asyncio.get_running_loop()
+    try:
+        load: Final = _tokenizer_load_slot(
+            model,
+            None
+            if custom_tokenizer is None
+            else _CustomTokenizerKey(
+                identifier=custom_tokenizer["identifier"],
+                revision=custom_tokenizer["revision"],
+                auth_token=custom_tokenizer["auth_token"],
+            ),
+            loop,
+        ).load(_tokenizer_loads_for_this_loop(), loop)
+        if load is None:
+            return _TokenizerLoadsBusy()
+        outcome: Final = await asyncio.wait_for(
+            asyncio.shield(load.outcome),
+            timeout=max(load.started_at + TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS - loop.time(), 0),
+        )
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001  # a tokenizer that cannot be read, loaded in time, or loaded at all answers the provider's error
+        return e
+    return outcome.tokenizer
+
+
+async def _tokenizer_or_provider_error(
+    model: str, custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None, provider_failure: ProviderCountFailure
+) -> SelectTokenizerResponse:
+    tokenizer: Final = await _tokenizer_after_provider_error(model, custom_tokenizer)
+    if not isinstance(tokenizer, BaseException):
+        return tokenizer
+    if not _answers_provider_error(tokenizer):
+        raise tokenizer.with_traceback(None)
+    raise _provider_error_after_failed_estimate(provider_failure, tokenizer) from tokenizer
+
+
+async def _local_token_estimate(
+    model: str,
+    prompt: str | None,
+    messages: Sequence[AllMessageValues] | None,
+    tools: list[ChatCompletionToolParam] | None,
+    custom_tokenizer: CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None,
+    provider_failure: ProviderCountFailure | None,
+) -> _LocalTokenEstimate:
+    tokenizer: Final = (
+        await asyncify(litellm.utils._select_tokenizer)(model=model, custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer)
+        if provider_failure is None
+        else await _tokenizer_or_provider_error(model, custom_tokenizer, provider_failure)
+    )
+    count: Final = offload_token_count(litellm.token_counter)(
+        model=model,
+        text=prompt,
+        messages=messages,
+        tools=tools,
+        custom_tokenizer=tokenizer,
+    )
+    total_tokens: Final = await (
+        count if provider_failure is None else _estimate_or_provider_error(count, provider_failure)
+    )
+    return _LocalTokenEstimate(total_tokens=total_tokens, tokenizer_type=str(tokenizer["type"]))
+
+
+_KIMI_K3_ENCODINGS: Final = KimiK3Encodings(
+    source=HUGGING_FACE_SOURCE, retry_after_seconds=TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS
+)
+
+
+async def _kimi_k3_count(
+    request: TokenCountRequest,
+    messages_format: TokenCountMessagesFormat,
+    model: str,
+    messages: Sequence[AllMessageValues],
+    tools: Sequence[ChatCompletionToolParam] | None,
+) -> int | None:
+    encoding: Final = await _KIMI_K3_ENCODINGS.encoding(TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS)
+    if encoding is None:
+        return None
+    match messages_format:
+        case "anthropic":
+            return await offload_token_count(kimi_k3_anthropic_tokens)(
+                encoding, model, request.model_dump(include={"messages", "system", "tools"}, exclude_none=True)
+            )
+        case "openai":
+            return await offload_token_count(kimi_k3_tokens)(encoding, model, messages, tools)
+
+
+class _TokenCountDeployment(TypedDict, total=False):
+    litellm_params: ReadOnly[Mapping[str, object]]
+    model_info: ReadOnly[Mapping[str, object]]
+
+
+_TOKEN_COUNT_DEPLOYMENT: Final = TypeAdapter(_TokenCountDeployment)
+
+
+def _model_group_deployment(router: Router | None, model_group: str) -> Mapping[str, object] | None:
+    group: Final = () if router is None else router._get_all_deployments(model_name=model_group)
+    return group[0] if group else None
+
+
+def _non_empty_str(value: object) -> str | None:
+    return value if isinstance(value, str) and value else None
+
+
+def _deployment_aws_region(deployment: _TokenCountDeployment) -> str:
+    from litellm.llms.bedrock.base_aws_llm import BaseAWSLLM
+
+    params: Final = deployment.get("litellm_params", {})
+    return BaseAWSLLM()._get_aws_region_name(
+        {"aws_region_name": params.get("aws_region_name")}, model=_non_empty_str(params.get("model"))
+    )
+
+
+def _token_count_settings_model(deployment: _TokenCountDeployment, request_model: str) -> tuple[str, str | None]:
+    model_info: Final = deployment.get("model_info", {})
+    params: Final = deployment.get("litellm_params", {})
+    base_model: Final = _non_empty_str(model_info.get("base_model")) or _non_empty_str(params.get("base_model"))
+    if base_model is not None:
+        return base_model, None
+    model: Final = _non_empty_str(params.get("model"))
+    if model is None:
+        return request_model, None
+    return model, _non_empty_str(params.get("custom_llm_provider"))
+
+
 _PROVIDERS_COUNTING_WITHOUT_MESSAGES: Final = frozenset(
     {litellm.LlmProviders.GEMINI.value, litellm.LlmProviders.VERTEX_AI.value}
 )
@@ -13667,6 +14006,14 @@ def _drops_params(deployment: Mapping[str, object] | None) -> bool:
     return litellm.drop_params is True or (litellm_params is not None and litellm_params.get("drop_params") is True)
 
 
+_ESTIMABLE_GOOGLE_PART_KEYS: Final = frozenset({"text", "functionCall", "functionResponse", "thoughtSignature"})
+
+
+def _estimable_contents(contents: Sequence[Mapping[str, object]]) -> bool:
+    parts: Final = chain.from_iterable(iter_items(content.get("parts") or ()) for content in contents)
+    return all(set(as_str_mapping(part) or ()) <= _ESTIMABLE_GOOGLE_PART_KEYS for part in parts)
+
+
 def _system_message(system: object) -> ChatCompletionSystemMessage | None:
     if not isinstance(system, (str, list)) or not system:
         return None
@@ -13735,6 +14082,14 @@ async def count_request_tokens(
     model_to_use: str = (
         litellm_model_name if isinstance(litellm_model_name, str) and litellm_model_name else request.model
     )
+    deployment_view: Final = _TOKEN_COUNT_DEPLOYMENT.validate_python(
+        deployment or _model_group_deployment(llm_router, request.model) or {}
+    )
+    settings: Final = await asyncify(resolve_token_count_settings)(
+        configured=deployment_view.get("model_info", {}),
+        default=await asyncify(cost_map_entry)(*_token_count_settings_model(deployment_view, request.model)),
+        deployment_region=partial(_deployment_aws_region, deployment_view),
+    )
 
     # Try provider-specific token counting first - only for non-direct requests (from provider endpoints)
     provider_counter: BaseTokenCounter | None = None
@@ -13754,23 +14109,32 @@ async def count_request_tokens(
             code=400,
         )
     prompt_only: Final = bool(prompt) and conversation_empty
-    if provider_counter is not None:
-        prompt_as_message: Final = prompt_only and custom_llm_provider in _PROVIDERS_COUNTING_WITHOUT_MESSAGES
-        result: Final = await _try_provider_token_count(
-            provider_counter=provider_counter,
-            custom_llm_provider=custom_llm_provider,
+    contents_estimable: Final = not contents or (bool(messages) and _estimable_contents(contents))
+    prompt_as_message: Final = prompt_only and custom_llm_provider in _PROVIDERS_COUNTING_WITHOUT_MESSAGES
+    ladder: Final = (
+        None
+        if provider_counter is None
+        else await _provider_token_count(
+            count_with=partial(
+                _try_provider_token_count,
+                provider_counter,
+                custom_llm_provider,
+                messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] if prompt_as_message else messages,
+                contents=None if prompt_as_message else contents,
+                deployment=deployment,
+                request_model=request.model,
+                tools=tools,
+                system=system,
+                messages_format=messages_format,
+                output_format=output_format,
+            ),
             model_to_use=model_to_use,
-            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": prompt}] if prompt_as_message else messages,
-            contents=None if prompt_as_message else contents,
-            deployment=deployment,
-            request_model=request.model,
-            tools=tools,
-            system=system,
-            messages_format=messages_format,
-            output_format=output_format,
+            settings=settings,
+            local_estimate_allowed=litellm.disable_token_counter is not True and contents_estimable,
         )
-        if result is not None:
-            return result
+    )
+    if isinstance(ladder, TokenCountResponse):
+        return ladder
 
     # Check if token counter is disabled before fallback
     if litellm.disable_token_counter is True:
@@ -13788,11 +14152,6 @@ async def count_request_tokens(
             CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer | None,
             model_info.get("custom_tokenizer", None),
         )
-    _tokenizer_used: Final = await asyncify(litellm.utils._select_tokenizer)(
-        model=model_to_use, custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer
-    )
-
-    tokenizer_used: Final = str(_tokenizer_used["type"])
     system_message: Final = _system_message(system)
     prompt_turn: Final = prompt_only and not (system_message is None and not tools)
     typed_messages: Final = cast(  # cast-ok: request messages are raw chat-shaped dicts that token_counter normalizes
@@ -13805,18 +14164,38 @@ async def count_request_tokens(
     counted_tools: Final = cast(  # cast-ok: raw OpenAI or Anthropic tool dicts, both of which token_counter formats
         list[ChatCompletionToolParam] | None, tools if counted_messages is not None else None
     )
-    total_tokens: Final = await offload_token_count(litellm.token_counter)(
+    framing: Final = settings.framing if counted_messages is not None and settings.framing is not None else 0
+    kimi_k3_messages: Final = counted_messages if settings.tokenizer == "kimi_k3" else None
+    exact: Final = (
+        await _kimi_k3_count(request, messages_format, model_to_use, kimi_k3_messages, counted_tools)
+        if kimi_k3_messages is not None and custom_tokenizer is None
+        else None
+    )
+    if exact is not None:
+        return TokenCountResponse(
+            total_tokens=exact + framing,
+            request_model=request.model,
+            model_used=model_to_use,
+            tokenizer_type="huggingface_tokenizer",
+            count_source="local_estimate",
+        )
+    estimate: Final = await _local_token_estimate(
         model=model_to_use,
-        text=prompt if counted_messages is None else None,
+        prompt=prompt if counted_messages is None else None,
         messages=counted_messages,
         tools=counted_tools,
-        custom_tokenizer=_tokenizer_used,
+        custom_tokenizer=custom_tokenizer,
+        provider_failure=ladder,
+    )
+    template: Final = (
+        0 if kimi_k3_messages is None else kimi_k3_template_tokens(len(kimi_k3_messages), bool(counted_tools))
     )
     return TokenCountResponse(
-        total_tokens=total_tokens,
+        total_tokens=estimate.total_tokens + template + framing,
         request_model=request.model,
         model_used=model_to_use,
-        tokenizer_type=tokenizer_used,
+        tokenizer_type=estimate.tokenizer_type,
+        count_source="local_estimate",
     )
 
 
diff --git a/litellm/proxy/response_api_endpoints/endpoints.py b/litellm/proxy/response_api_endpoints/endpoints.py
index 021c741b2bc..d33d8a83bfa 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/response_api_endpoints/endpoints.py
+++ b/litellm/proxy/response_api_endpoints/endpoints.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ from litellm.proxy.common_utils.openai_error_payload import (
     error_status_code,
     openai_error_type_for_status,
 )
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import count_source_fields
 from litellm.proxy.route_llm_request import raise_if_required_body_param_missing
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import (
     REASONING_EFFORT,
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ from litellm.types.llms.openai import (
     ResponsesAPIResponse,
 )
 from litellm.types.responses.main import DeleteResponseResult
+from litellm.types.token_count import TokenCountSourceFields
 from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -1074,7 +1076,7 @@ class _ResponsesApiErrorBody(TypedDict):
     error: ReadOnly[_ResponsesApiErrorDetail]
 
 
-class _ResponsesInputTokensResult(TypedDict):
+class _ResponsesInputTokensResult(TokenCountSourceFields):
     object: ReadOnly[str]
     input_tokens: ReadOnly[int]
 
@@ -1289,6 +1291,7 @@ async def responses_input_tokens(
     result: Final[_ResponsesInputTokensResult] = {
         "object": "response.input_tokens",
         "input_tokens": token_response.total_tokens,
+        **count_source_fields(token_response),
     }
     return result
 
diff --git a/litellm/types/llms/vertex_ai.py b/litellm/types/llms/vertex_ai.py
index ce51e46ef15..28fdf3acf67 100644
--- a/litellm/types/llms/vertex_ai.py
+++ b/litellm/types/llms/vertex_ai.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from typing_extensions import (
 )
 
 from litellm.types.llms.openai import EmbeddingInput
+from litellm.types.token_count import TokenCountSourceFields
 
 # Gemini supports nested-list inputs (e.g. [["text", "image"]]) as an explicit
 # opt-in for combined embeddings — a provider-specific extension of the
@@ -308,12 +309,13 @@ class UsageMetadata(TypedDict, total=False):
     candidatesTokensDetails: list[PromptTokensDetails]  # Alternative key name used in some responses
 
 
-class TokenCountDetailsResponse(TypedDict):
+class TokenCountDetailsResponse(TokenCountSourceFields):
     """
     Response structure for token count details with modality breakdown.
 
     Example:
-        {'totalTokens': 12, 'promptTokensDetails': [{'modality': 'TEXT', 'tokenCount': 12}]}
+        {'totalTokens': 12, 'promptTokensDetails': [{'modality': 'TEXT', 'tokenCount': 12}],
+         'litellm_count_source': 'provider'}
     """
 
     totalTokens: int
diff --git a/litellm/types/token_count.py b/litellm/types/token_count.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b21401066c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/litellm/types/token_count.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from typing import Literal, TypeAlias
+
+from typing_extensions import NotRequired, ReadOnly, TypedDict
+
+TokenCountSource: TypeAlias = Literal["provider", "token_count_model", "local_estimate"]
+TokenCountTokenizer: TypeAlias = Literal["kimi_k3"]
+
+
+class TokenCountModelInfo(TypedDict):
+    model: ReadOnly[str]
+    region: ReadOnly[NotRequired[str]]
+
+
+class TokenCountSourceFields(TypedDict, total=False):
+    litellm_count_source: ReadOnly[TokenCountSource]
+    litellm_count_model: ReadOnly[str]
diff --git a/litellm/types/utils.py b/litellm/types/utils.py
index d3f856697e3..2cce951ca60 100644
--- a/litellm/types/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/types/utils.py
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ from litellm.types.llms.base import (
     LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase,
 )
 from litellm.types.mcp import MCPServerCostInfo
+from litellm.types.token_count import TokenCountModelInfo, TokenCountSource, TokenCountTokenizer
 
 from ..litellm_core_utils.core_helpers import map_finish_reason, process_response_headers
 from . import litellm_params as _litellm_params
@@ -211,6 +212,9 @@ class ProviderSpecificModelInfo(TypedDict, total=False):
     vertex_ai_audio_api: ReadOnly[Literal["lyria_predict", "lyria_interactions"] | None]
     bedrock_output_config_effort_ceiling: Literal["low", "medium", "high", "max", "xhigh"] | None
     bedrock_converse_supports_strict_tools: bool | None
+    token_count_framing: ReadOnly[int | None]
+    token_count_model: ReadOnly[TokenCountModelInfo | None]
+    token_count_tokenizer: ReadOnly[TokenCountTokenizer | None]
 
 
 class SearchContextCostPerQuery(TypedDict, total=False):
@@ -3826,10 +3830,13 @@ class CustomPricingLiteLLMParams(MirroredPricingParams):
 
 DEPLOYMENT_SCOPED_PRICING_FIELDS: Final[frozenset[str]] = frozenset({"off_peak_pricing"})
 
+DEPLOYMENT_SCOPED_TOKEN_COUNT_FIELDS: Final[frozenset[str]] = frozenset({"token_count_framing", "token_count_model"})
+
 SHARED_BACKEND_MODEL_INFO_FIELDS: Final[frozenset[str]] = (
     frozenset(ModelInfoBase.__required_keys__ | ModelInfoBase.__optional_keys__)
     - frozenset(CustomPricingLiteLLMParams.model_fields)
     - DEPLOYMENT_SCOPED_PRICING_FIELDS
+    - DEPLOYMENT_SCOPED_TOKEN_COUNT_FIELDS
 )
 
 
@@ -4226,6 +4233,7 @@ class TokenCountResponse(LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase):
     request_model: str
     model_used: str
     tokenizer_type: str
+    count_source: TokenCountSource | None = None
     original_response: dict | None = None
     """
     Original Response from upstream API call - if an API call was made for token counting
@@ -4236,6 +4244,7 @@ class TokenCountResponse(LiteLLMPydanticObjectBase):
     HTTP status code from the token counting API (e.g., 200 for success, 429 for rate limit, 400 for bad request)
     """
     status_code: int | None = None
+    rejected_before_provider_call: bool = Field(default=False, exclude=True)
 
 
 class CustomHuggingfaceTokenizer(TypedDict):
diff --git a/litellm/utils.py b/litellm/utils.py
index e91460b5987..64ecfcac98c 100644
--- a/litellm/utils.py
+++ b/litellm/utils.py
@@ -6327,6 +6327,9 @@ def _get_model_info_helper(
                 uses_embed_content=_model_info.get("uses_embed_content", None),
                 supports_image_size=_model_info.get("supports_image_size", None),
                 supported_audio_formats=_model_info.get("supported_audio_formats", None),
+                token_count_framing=_model_info.get("token_count_framing", None),
+                token_count_model=_model_info.get("token_count_model", None),
+                token_count_tokenizer=_model_info.get("token_count_tokenizer", None),
                 vertex_ai_audio_api=_model_info.get("vertex_ai_audio_api", None),
             )
             for cost_key, cost_value in _model_info.items():
diff --git a/model_prices_and_context_window.json b/model_prices_and_context_window.json
index d89c8baf9b0..9635cf3ce72 100644
--- a/model_prices_and_context_window.json
+++ b/model_prices_and_context_window.json
@@ -19337,7 +19337,13 @@
         "supports_prompt_caching": true,
         "supports_reasoning": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": false
+        "supports_vision": false,
+        "token_count_framing": 97
+    },
+    "databricks/system.ai.deepseek-v4-flash-0731": {
+        "litellm_provider": "databricks",
+        "mode": "chat",
+        "token_count_framing": 97
     },
     "databricks/databricks-deepseek-v4-pro-0813": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 1.31999e-06,
@@ -20328,7 +20334,13 @@
         "supports_prompt_caching": true,
         "supports_reasoning": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 100
+    },
+    "databricks/system.ai.kimi-k3": {
+        "litellm_provider": "databricks",
+        "mode": "chat",
+        "token_count_framing": 100
     },
     "databricks/databricks-llama-4-maverick": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 5.0001e-07,
@@ -75642,7 +75654,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "global.moonshotai.kimi-k3": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 3.75e-06,
@@ -75662,7 +75676,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": {
         "cache_creation_input_token_cost": 4.125e-06,
@@ -75682,7 +75698,9 @@
         "supports_response_schema": true,
         "supports_system_messages": true,
         "supports_tool_choice": true,
-        "supports_vision": true
+        "supports_vision": true,
+        "token_count_framing": 64,
+        "token_count_tokenizer": "kimi_k3"
     },
     "openrouter/xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash": {
         "cache_read_input_token_cost": 2.8e-09,
diff --git a/model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json b/model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json
index 35624045fdf..b99f8ee6f98 100644
--- a/model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json
+++ b/model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json
@@ -1083,6 +1083,36 @@
             "additionalProperties": false
           }
         },
+        "token_count_framing": {
+          "type": "integer",
+          "minimum": 0,
+          "description": "Tokens added once per request to a local count estimate, for the provider's chat framing."
+        },
+        "token_count_model": {
+          "type": "object",
+          "required": [
+            "model"
+          ],
+          "additionalProperties": false,
+          "properties": {
+            "model": {
+              "type": "string",
+              "pattern": "\\S"
+            },
+            "region": {
+              "type": "string",
+              "pattern": "\\S"
+            }
+          },
+          "description": "Model that counts tokens for this one, and the AWS region its count API runs in."
+        },
+        "token_count_tokenizer": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "Tokenizer litellm counts this model's requests with when the provider cannot count them.",
+          "enum": [
+            "kimi_k3"
+          ]
+        },
         "tpm": {
           "type": "integer",
           "minimum": 0,
diff --git a/tests/integration/providers/test_anthropic_count_tokens_system_lift_wire.py b/tests/integration/providers/test_anthropic_count_tokens_system_lift_wire.py
index a4b5c15ad54..b34b0b6b526 100644
--- a/tests/integration/providers/test_anthropic_count_tokens_system_lift_wire.py
+++ b/tests/integration/providers/test_anthropic_count_tokens_system_lift_wire.py
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_lifts_the_leading_system_run(
 ) -> None:
     with _listening(deployment) as peer:
         response: Final = _count(gateway, count_request(deployment.model, case))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (expected_count_body(_MODEL, case),)
 
 
@@ -335,7 +335,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_lifts_instructions(deployment: _Deployment, gate
             "/v1/responses/input_tokens",
             {"model": deployment.model, "input": USER_TEXT, "instructions": INSTRUCTION},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (_STRING_BODY,)
 
 
@@ -348,7 +352,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_lifts_instructions_ahead_of_a_leading_system_ite
             "/v1/responses/input_tokens",
             {"model": deployment.model, "input": [MID_SYSTEM, USER], "instructions": INSTRUCTION},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (
             {"model": _MODEL, "messages": [USER], "system": [LIFTED, {"type": "text", "text": REMINDER}]},
         )
@@ -379,7 +387,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_tools_beside_the_lifted_system(
 ) -> None:
     with _listening(deployment) as peer:
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**count_request(deployment.model, STRING_CASE), "tools": TOOLS})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == ({**_STRING_BODY, "tools": TOOLS},)
 
 
@@ -392,7 +400,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_keeps_a_mid_conversation_system_in_place(
             "messages": [LEADING, USER, MID_SYSTEM, ASSISTANT, FOLLOW_UP],
         }
         response: Final = _count(gateway, body)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (
             {"model": _MODEL, "messages": [USER, MID_SYSTEM, ASSISTANT, FOLLOW_UP], "system": [LIFTED]},
         )
@@ -424,7 +432,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_repeated_request_lifts_each_time(deployment: _Dep
         answers: Final = tuple(
             _payload(_count(gateway, count_request(deployment.model, STRING_CASE))) for _ in range(2)
         )
-        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _COUNT},) * 2
+        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"},) * 2
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (_STRING_BODY,) * 2
 
 
@@ -438,7 +446,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_surfaces_the_counting_error_for_a_leading_system_
         assert "input_tokens" not in response.text, response.text
         assert peer.drain() == ()
         follow_up: Final = _count(gateway, count_request(deployment.model, STRING_CASE))
-        assert _payload(follow_up) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT}, follow_up.text
+        assert _payload(follow_up) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, follow_up.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (_STRING_BODY,)
 
 
@@ -453,7 +461,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_duplicate_messages_key_lifts_the_last_value(
             content=f'{{"model": "{deployment.model}", "messages": {first}, "messages": {last}}}',
             headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {gateway.key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _bodies(peer, deployment.provider) == (_STRING_BODY,)
 
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_mantle_count_tokens_wire.py b/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_mantle_count_tokens_wire.py
index bc70c5d3b21..e20a397a708 100644
--- a/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_mantle_count_tokens_wire.py
+++ b/tests/integration/providers/test_bedrock_mantle_count_tokens_wire.py
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_counts_through_mantle_when_the_runtime_cannot(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": system, "tools": _TOOLS})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _runtime_count_targets(runtime) == (f"/model/{_OPUS_BASE}/count-tokens",)
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=system, tools=_TOOLS),)
 
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_without_system_or_tools_sends_a_bare_body_to_mant
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, _bare(model))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_BARE,)
 
@@ -436,7 +436,11 @@ def test_gemini_count_tokens_route_reports_the_mantle_total(counting_proxy: Owne
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = gateway.request("POST", f"/v1beta/models/{model}:countTokens", _GEMINI_BODY)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "promptTokensDetails": []}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [],
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == ({"model": _OPUS_BASE, "messages": _GEMINI_MESSAGES},)
 
@@ -452,7 +456,11 @@ def test_gemini_count_tokens_route_reports_the_runtime_total_for_a_model_bedrock
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url, _SONNET)
         response: Final = gateway.request("POST", f"/v1beta/models/{model}:countTokens", _GEMINI_BODY)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"totalTokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT, "promptTokensDetails": []}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "totalTokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [],
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert _runtime_count_targets(runtime) == (f"/model/{_SONNET}/count-tokens",)
         assert mantle.drain() == ()
 
@@ -467,7 +475,7 @@ def test_runtime_404_on_claude_falls_back_to_mantle(counting_proxy: OwnedProxy,
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": system, "tools": _TOOLS})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=system, tools=_TOOLS),)
 
@@ -527,7 +535,11 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_forwards_system_and_tools_to_mantle(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = gateway.request("POST", f"/v1beta/models/{model}:countTokens", body)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "promptTokensDetails": []}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [],
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (
             _mantle_body(
@@ -572,7 +584,11 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_normalizes_uppercase_parameters_for_mantle(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = gateway.request("POST", f"/v1beta/models/{model}:countTokens", body)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "promptTokensDetails": []}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "totalTokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [],
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (
             _mantle_body(
@@ -602,7 +618,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_counts_through_mantle(counting_proxy: OwnedProxy
         response: Final = gateway.request(
             "POST", "/v1/responses/input_tokens", {"model": model, "input": "Count this message"}
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_BARE,)
 
@@ -647,7 +667,10 @@ def test_model_the_runtime_counts_never_reaches_mantle(counting_proxy: OwnedProx
         gateway.scenario() as scenario,
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url, _SONNET)
-        assert _payload(_count(gateway, _full(model))) == {"input_tokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT}
+        assert _payload(_count(gateway, _full(model))) == {
+            "input_tokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }
         detailed: Final = gateway.request(
             "POST", "/utils/token_counter", _full(model), params={"call_endpoint": "true"}
         )
@@ -735,7 +758,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_with_instructions_counts_through_mantle(
             "/v1/responses/input_tokens",
             {"model": model, "input": "Count this message", "instructions": "Be terse"},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=[{"type": "text", "text": "Be terse"}]),)
 
@@ -752,7 +779,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_lifts_the_leading_system_run_for_mantle(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, count_request(model, case))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (expected_count_body(_OPUS_BASE, case),)
 
@@ -865,7 +892,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_lifts_instructions_ahead_of_a_leading_system_ite
             "/v1/responses/input_tokens",
             {"model": model, "input": [MID_SYSTEM, USER], "instructions": INSTRUCTION},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=[LIFTED, {"type": "text", "text": REMINDER}]),)
 
@@ -881,7 +912,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_tools_beside_the_lifted_system_to_mantle
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**count_request(model, STRING_CASE), "tools": _TOOLS})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=[LIFTED], tools=_TOOLS),)
 
@@ -901,7 +932,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_keeps_a_mid_conversation_system_in_place_for_mant
             "messages": [LEADING, USER, MID_SYSTEM, ASSISTANT, FOLLOW_UP],
         }
         response: Final = _count(gateway, body)
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (
             _mantle_body(messages=[USER, MID_SYSTEM, ASSISTANT, FOLLOW_UP], system=[LIFTED]),
@@ -954,7 +985,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_repeated_request_lifts_the_leading_system_each_ti
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         answers: Final = tuple(_payload(_count(gateway, count_request(model, STRING_CASE))) for _ in range(2))
-        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT},) * 2
+        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"},) * 2
         assert _runtime_count_targets(runtime) == (f"/model/{_OPUS_BASE}/count-tokens",) * 2
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_LIFTED,) * 2
 
@@ -975,7 +1006,9 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_surfaces_the_counting_error_for_a_leading_system_
         assert "input_tokens" not in response.text, response.text
         assert mantle.drain() == ()
         follow_up: Final = _count(gateway, count_request(model, STRING_CASE))
-        assert _payload(follow_up) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, follow_up.text
+        assert _payload(follow_up) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, (
+            follow_up.text
+        )
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_LIFTED,)
 
@@ -997,7 +1030,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_duplicate_messages_key_lifts_the_last_value_for_m
             content=f'{{"model": "{model}", "messages": {first}, "messages": {last}}}',
             headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {gateway.key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_LIFTED,)
 
@@ -1022,7 +1055,9 @@ def test_disabled_token_counter_counts_a_leading_system_through_mantle(
         )
         with wire_server(_mantle(_strict), port=mantle_port) as strict:
             counted: Final = _count(owned.gateway, count_request(_OWNED_OPUS, STRING_CASE))
-            assert _payload(counted) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, counted.text
+            assert _payload(counted) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, (
+                counted.text
+            )
             assert _mantle_bodies(strict) == (_MANTLE_LIFTED,)
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
 
@@ -1222,7 +1257,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_a_5kb_system_verbatim_to_mantle(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": system})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_mantle_body(system=system),)
 
@@ -1243,7 +1278,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_duplicate_system_and_tools_keys_forward_one_value
             content=f'{{"model": "{model}", "messages": {json.dumps(_MESSAGES)}, {fields}, {fields}}}',
             headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {gateway.key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         (sent,) = mantle.drain()
         assert _mantle_requests((sent,)) == (_MANTLE_FULL,)
@@ -1261,7 +1296,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_leaves_empty_tools_and_system_out_of_the_mantle_b
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "tools": [], "system": ""})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert len(_runtime_count_targets(runtime)) == 1
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_BARE,)
 
@@ -1277,7 +1312,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_repeated_request_reaches_both_peers_each_time(
     ):
         model: Final = _deployment(scenario, runtime.url)
         answers: Final = tuple(_payload(_count(gateway, _bare(model))) for _ in range(2))
-        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT},) * 2
+        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"},) * 2
         assert _runtime_count_targets(runtime) == (f"/model/{_OPUS_BASE}/count-tokens",) * 2
         assert _mantle_bodies(mantle) == (_MANTLE_BARE,) * 2
 
@@ -1306,9 +1341,15 @@ def test_disabled_token_counter_surfaces_the_mantle_error_instead_of_counting_lo
             assert _REJECTION in refused.text and "input_tokens" not in refused.text, refused.text
             assert _mantle_bodies(refusing) == (_MANTLE_FULL,)
         with wire_server(_mantle(), port=mantle_port) as counting:
-            assert _payload(_count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_OPUS))) == {"input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT}
+            assert _payload(_count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_OPUS))) == {
+                "input_tokens": _MANTLE_COUNT,
+                "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+            }
             assert _mantle_bodies(counting) == (_MANTLE_FULL,)
-            assert _payload(_count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_SONNET))) == {"input_tokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT}
+            assert _payload(_count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_SONNET))) == {
+                "input_tokens": _RUNTIME_COUNT,
+                "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+            }
             rejected: Final = _count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_NOVA))
             assert rejected.status_code == 400, rejected.text
             assert _UNSUPPORTED in rejected.text and "input_tokens" not in rejected.text, rejected.text
diff --git a/tests/integration/providers/test_vertex_partner_count_tokens_wire.py b/tests/integration/providers/test_vertex_partner_count_tokens_wire.py
index 1c4b1d1a6e5..d5c841d9335 100644
--- a/tests/integration/providers/test_vertex_partner_count_tokens_wire.py
+++ b/tests/integration/providers/test_vertex_partner_count_tokens_wire.py
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_system_and_tools(gateway: Gateway, syste
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": system, "tools": _TOOLS})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == ({**_PEER_BARE, "system": system, "tools": _TOOLS},)
 
 
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_without_system_or_tools_sends_bare_body(gateway:
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, _bare(model))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == (_PEER_BARE,)
 
 
@@ -446,7 +446,11 @@ def test_responses_input_tokens_counts_through_the_partner_peer(gateway: Gateway
         response: Final = gateway.request(
             "POST", "/v1/responses/input_tokens", {"model": model, "input": "Count this message"}
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"object": "response.input_tokens", "input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {
+            "object": "response.input_tokens",
+            "input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT,
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == (_PEER_BARE,)
 
 
@@ -501,7 +505,7 @@ def test_llama_count_still_reaches_the_meta_count_route(gateway: Gateway) -> Non
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url, model=f"vertex_ai/{_LLAMA_BACKEND}")
         response: Final = _count(gateway, _bare(model))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         (sent,) = _count_bodies(wire.drain(), _LLAMA_COUNT_TARGET)
         assert sent["messages"] == _MESSAGES, sent
 
@@ -619,7 +623,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_an_empty_tools_list(gateway: Gateway) ->
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "tools": []})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == ({**_PEER_BARE, "tools": []},)
 
 
@@ -627,7 +631,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_an_empty_system_string(gateway: Gateway)
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": ""})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == ({**_PEER_BARE, "system": ""},)
 
 
@@ -635,7 +639,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_leaves_null_system_and_tools_out(gateway: Gateway
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": None, "tools": None})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == (_PEER_BARE,)
 
 
@@ -653,7 +657,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_forwards_a_5kb_system_verbatim(gateway: Gateway)
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         response: Final = _count(gateway, {**_bare(model), "system": system})
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == ({**_PEER_BARE, "system": system},)
 
 
@@ -666,7 +670,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_duplicate_system_and_tools_keys_forward_one_value
             content=f'{{"model": "{model}", "messages": {json.dumps(_MESSAGES)}, {fields}, {fields}}}',
             headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {gateway.key}", "Content-Type": "application/json"},
         )
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         (sent,) = _count_requests(wire.drain())
         assert _count_bodies((sent,)) == (_PEER_FULL,)
         assert (sent.body.count(b'"system"'), sent.body.count(b'"tools"')) == (1, 1), sent.body
@@ -699,7 +703,7 @@ def test_count_tokens_location_override_targets_the_count_region(gateway: Gatewa
             gateway, scenario, wire.url, vertex_location="global", vertex_count_tokens_location="europe-west1"
         )
         response: Final = _count(gateway, _bare(model))
-        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, response.text
+        assert _payload(response) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, response.text
         target: Final = _COUNT_TARGET.replace(f"/locations/{_LOCATION}/", "/locations/europe-west1/")
         assert _count_bodies(wire.drain(), target) == (_PEER_BARE,)
 
@@ -708,7 +712,7 @@ def test_messages_count_tokens_repeated_request_reaches_the_peer_each_time(gatew
     with wire_server(_peer()) as wire, gateway.scenario() as scenario:
         model: Final = _deployment(gateway, scenario, wire.url)
         answers: Final = tuple(_payload(_count(gateway, _bare(model))) for _ in range(2))
-        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT},) * 2
+        assert answers == ({"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"},) * 2
         assert _counted_bodies(wire) == (_PEER_BARE,) * 2
 
 
@@ -725,7 +729,7 @@ def test_disabled_token_counter_surfaces_provider_failures_instead_of_counting_l
         )
         with owned_proxy_process(gateway, tmp_path, {}, config=config, workers=2) as owned:
             counted: Final = _count(owned.gateway, _full(_OWNED_MODEL))
-            assert _payload(counted) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT}, counted.text
+            assert _payload(counted) == {"input_tokens": _PEER_COUNT, "litellm_count_source": "provider"}, counted.text
             rejected: Final = _count(
                 owned.gateway, {**_full(_OWNED_MODEL), "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": _REJECT_TEXT}]}
             )
diff --git a/tests/integration/spend/test_cache_and_quota.py b/tests/integration/spend/test_cache_and_quota.py
index 1cc03838f8d..b5145ea49d4 100644
--- a/tests/integration/spend/test_cache_and_quota.py
+++ b/tests/integration/spend/test_cache_and_quota.py
@@ -399,9 +399,11 @@ def test_in_flight_count_tokens_does_not_reserve_key_budget_away_from_a_completi
             [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
         ]
         assert count.status_code == 200, count.text
-        assert count.json() == {"totalTokens": 12, "promptTokensDetails": [{"modality": "TEXT", "tokenCount": 12}]}, (
-            count.text
-        )
+        assert count.json() == {
+            "totalTokens": 12,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [{"modality": "TEXT", "tokenCount": 12}],
+            "litellm_count_source": "provider",
+        }, count.text
         provider_calls: Final = wire.drain()
         assert [(call.method, call.target) for call in provider_calls] == [
             ("POST", "/v1beta/models/gemini-3.8-flash:countTokens")
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/test_google_api_endpoints.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/test_google_api_endpoints.py
index 114bbb184c6..2777d18a399 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/test_google_api_endpoints.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/google_endpoints/test_google_api_endpoints.py
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ Test to verify the Google GenAI proxy API endpoints
 """
 
 from typing import Final
-from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch
 
 import pytest
 
+from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
 
 
 def _build_test_client():
@@ -88,9 +89,7 @@ def test_google_stream_generate_content_endpoint():
         assert init_kwargs["data"]["_litellm_raw_sse_stream"] is True
         assert init_kwargs["data"]["_litellm_skip_openai_stream_done"] is True
         assert init_kwargs["data"]["model"] == "test-model"
-        assert init_kwargs["data"]["contents"] == [
-            {"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "Hello"}]}
-        ]
+        assert init_kwargs["data"]["contents"] == [{"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "Hello"}]}]
 
 
 def test_google_generate_content_data_flows_through_processor():
@@ -123,9 +122,7 @@ def test_google_generate_content_data_flows_through_processor():
         data = mock_init.call_args.kwargs["data"]
         assert data["model"] == "test-model"
         assert data["contents"] == [{"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "Hello"}]}]
-        assert data["systemInstruction"] == {
-            "parts": [{"text": "Your name is Doodle."}]
-        }
+        assert data["systemInstruction"] == {"parts": [{"text": "Your name is Doodle."}]}
         # generationConfig arrives intact here; the rename to `config` is
         # done downstream in route_request (see test_route_llm_request).
         assert data["generationConfig"]["responseModalities"] == ["TEXT", "IMAGE"]
@@ -160,12 +157,17 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_unchanged():
     except ImportError as e:
         pytest.skip(f"Skipping test due to missing dependency: {e}")
 
-    fake_response = MagicMock()
-    fake_response.original_response = {
-        "totalTokens": 7,
-        "promptTokensDetails": [{"modality": "TEXT", "tokenCount": 7}],
-    }
-    fake_response.total_tokens = 7
+    fake_response = TokenCountResponse(
+        total_tokens=7,
+        request_model="test-model",
+        model_used="test-model",
+        tokenizer_type="gemini_api",
+        original_response={
+            "totalTokens": 7,
+            "promptTokensDetails": [{"modality": "TEXT", "tokenCount": 7}],
+        },
+        count_source="provider",
+    )
 
     with patch(
         "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.token_counter",
@@ -180,6 +182,7 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_unchanged():
         assert response.status_code == 200
         body = response.json()
         assert body["totalTokens"] == 7
+        assert body["litellm_count_source"] == "provider"
 
 
 def test_google_count_tokens_unexpected_failure_uses_the_google_error_envelope():
@@ -212,9 +215,14 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_uses_normalized_total_when_provider_shape_differs()
     except ImportError as e:
         pytest.skip(f"Skipping test due to missing dependency: {e}")
 
-    fake_response: Final = MagicMock()
-    fake_response.original_response = {"input_tokens": 2167}
-    fake_response.total_tokens = 2167
+    fake_response: Final = TokenCountResponse(
+        total_tokens=2167,
+        request_model="claude-opus-4-8",
+        model_used="us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5",
+        tokenizer_type="bedrock_api",
+        original_response={"input_tokens": 2167},
+        count_source="token_count_model",
+    )
 
     with patch(
         "litellm.proxy.proxy_server.token_counter",
@@ -230,3 +238,5 @@ def test_google_count_tokens_uses_normalized_total_when_provider_shape_differs()
         body: Final = response.json()
         assert body["totalTokens"] == 2167
         assert body["promptTokensDetails"] == []
+        assert body["litellm_count_source"] == "token_count_model"
+        assert body["litellm_count_model"] == "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5"
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_model_management_endpoints.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_model_management_endpoints.py
index 5f7807650e1..b7f6865ab7e 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_model_management_endpoints.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/test_model_management_endpoints.py
@@ -4239,6 +4239,54 @@ class TestModelInfoCostMapEchoFilter:
         assert "litellm_provider" not in info
         assert "supported_openai_params" not in info
 
+    @pytest.fixture
+    def bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main(self) -> Iterator[None]:
+        import litellm
+
+        entry: Final = {
+            "litellm_provider": "bedrock_converse",
+            "mode": "chat",
+            "token_count_model": {"model": "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "us-east-1"},
+        }
+        with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patched:
+            patched.setattr(litellm, "model_cost", {**litellm.model_cost, "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": entry})
+            litellm.utils._invalidate_model_cost_lowercase_map()
+            yield
+        litellm.utils._invalidate_model_cost_lowercase_map()
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("model", "field", "edited"),
+        [
+            ("bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5", "token_count_model", {}),
+            ("bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3", "token_count_framing", 0),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_token_count_setting_is_stored_only_when_the_operator_changed_it(
+        self, model: str, field: str, edited: object, bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main: None
+    ) -> None:
+        import litellm
+        from litellm.proxy.management_endpoints.model_management_endpoints import update_db_model
+
+        entry: Final = litellm.get_model_info(model)
+        assert entry[field] not in (None, edited), entry
+        db_model: Final = Deployment(
+            model_name="count-settings",
+            litellm_params=LiteLLM_Params(model=model),
+            model_info=ModelInfo(id="dep-echo-count"),
+        )
+
+        echoed: Final = update_db_model(
+            db_model=db_model,
+            updated_patch=updateDeployment(model_info=ModelInfo(**{**entry, "id": "dep-echo-count"})),
+        )
+        changed: Final = update_db_model(
+            db_model=db_model,
+            updated_patch=updateDeployment(model_info=ModelInfo(**{**entry, "id": "dep-echo-count", field: edited})),
+        )
+
+        assert field not in json.loads(echoed["model_info"])
+        assert json.loads(changed["model_info"])[field] == edited
+
     def test_metadata_without_a_cost_map_key_is_persisted(self):
         import litellm
 
diff --git a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_routes_utils.py b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_routes_utils.py
index fc5ab9475eb..ee165d7b204 100644
--- a/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_routes_utils.py
+++ b/tests/test_litellm/proxy/proxy_server/test_routes_utils.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ def test_token_counter_happy_path(client, auth_as, patched_token_counter):
         "request_model": "gpt-4",
         "model_used": "gpt-4",
         "tokenizer_type": "openai_tokenizer",
+        "count_source": "local_estimate",
         "original_response": None,
         "error": False,
         "error_message": None,
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/azure_ai/anthropic/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py b/tests/unit/llms/azure_ai/anthropic/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
index 86ad6c8d9d9..4913d2b0d1d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/azure_ai/anthropic/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/azure_ai/anthropic/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ async def test_count_reports_upstream_input_tokens_and_keeps_the_raw_payload(
             "request_model": "azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "model_used": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "tokenizer_type": "azure_ai_anthropic_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": payload,
             "error": False,
             "error_message": None,
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ async def test_non_integer_input_tokens_becomes_an_error_response_carrying_the_v
             "request_model": "azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "model_used": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "tokenizer_type": "azure_ai_anthropic_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": str(rejection.value),
@@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ async def test_count_payload_that_is_not_an_object_becomes_an_error_response_nam
             "request_model": "azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "model_used": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "tokenizer_type": "azure_ai_anthropic_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": str(failed_lookup.value),
@@ -156,6 +159,7 @@ async def test_upstream_error_status_becomes_an_error_response_with_that_status_
             "request_model": "azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "model_used": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "tokenizer_type": "azure_ai_anthropic_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": upstream_text,
@@ -180,6 +184,7 @@ async def test_undecodable_count_body_becomes_a_500_error_response_carrying_the_
             "request_model": "azure_ai/claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "model_used": "claude-sonnet-4-5",
             "tokenizer_type": "azure_ai_anthropic_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": f"CountTokens processing error: {undecodable.value}",
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/test_bedrock_kimi_k3.py b/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/test_bedrock_kimi_k3.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ffddb09cca7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/bedrock/count_tokens/test_bedrock_kimi_k3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,524 @@
+import asyncio
+import base64
+import hashlib
+import json
+import logging
+import re
+import threading
+from collections.abc import Iterable
+from itertools import product
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Final
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+import respx
+import tiktoken
+
+import litellm
+from litellm._logging import verbose_logger
+from litellm.llms.bedrock.count_tokens.kimi_k3 import (
+    KimiK3Encodings,
+    KimiK3TokenizerSource,
+    kimi_k3_anthropic_tokens,
+    kimi_k3_tokens,
+    load_kimi_k3_encoding,
+)
+from litellm.responses.litellm_completion_transformation.transformation import LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig
+
+MODEL: Final = "us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"
+_CONTROL: Final = re.compile(r"<\|(?:open|close|sep|end_of_msg)\|>")
+_WEATHER: Final = {
+    "type": "function",
+    "function": {
+        "name": "get_weather",
+        "description": "Get the weather in °C",
+        "parameters": {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}, "days": {"type": "integer"}},
+            "required": ["city"],
+        },
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _call(call_id: str, arguments: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, object]:
+    return {"id": call_id, "type": "function", "function": {"name": "get_weather", "arguments": json.dumps(arguments)}}
+
+
+def _written_ranks(path: Path, tokens: Iterable[bytes]) -> KimiK3TokenizerSource:
+    path.write_bytes(b"\n".join(base64.b64encode(token) + b" %d" % rank for rank, token in enumerate(tokens)))
+    return KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=lambda: str(path), sha256=hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest())
+
+
+def _single_bytes() -> tuple[bytes, ...]:
+    return tuple(bytes((value,)) for value in range(256))
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def byte_source(tmp_path_factory: pytest.TempPathFactory) -> KimiK3TokenizerSource:
+    return _written_ranks(tmp_path_factory.mktemp("bytes") / "tiktoken.model", _single_bytes())
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def byte_encoding(byte_source: KimiK3TokenizerSource) -> tiktoken.Encoding:
+    loaded: Final = load_kimi_k3_encoding(byte_source)
+    assert loaded is not None
+    return loaded
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+def pair_encoding(tmp_path_factory: pytest.TempPathFactory) -> tiktoken.Encoding:
+    pairs: Final = (bytes(pair) for pair in product(range(256), repeat=2))
+    source: Final = _written_ranks(tmp_path_factory.mktemp("pairs") / "tiktoken.model", (*_single_bytes(), *pairs))
+    loaded: Final = load_kimi_k3_encoding(source)
+    assert loaded is not None
+    return loaded
+
+
+def _template_count(encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, rendered: str) -> int:
+    texts: Final = _CONTROL.split(rendered)
+    return len(_CONTROL.findall(rendered)) + sum(len(encoding.encode_ordinary(text)) for text in texts)
+
+
+_GENERATION_PROMPT: Final = '<|open|>message role="assistant"<|sep|><|open|>think<|sep|>'
+
+
+# Expected renders follow the Kimi K3 chat template in moonshotai/Kimi-K3 at revision f831ab6, which matched
+# Bedrock's prompt_tokens for us.moonshotai.kimi-k3 in 19 live calls on 2026-10-16
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("messages", "tools", "rendered"),
+    [
+        pytest.param(
+            [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello there"}],
+            None,
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>Hello there<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>' + _GENERATION_PROMPT,
+            id="user",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {
+                    "role": "system",
+                    "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Be terse."}, {"type": "text", "text": "Answer in French."}],
+                },
+                {"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Hi"}, {"type": "text", "text": " there"}]},
+            ],
+            None,
+            '<|open|>message role="system"<|sep|>Be terse.Answer in French.<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>Hi there<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>' + _GENERATION_PROMPT,
+            id="text_parts_join",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "user", "content": "What is 2+2?"},
+                {"role": "assistant", "content": "4"},
+                {"role": "user", "content": "And 3+3?"},
+            ],
+            None,
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>What is 2+2?<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="assistant"<|sep|><|open|>think<|sep|><|close|>think<|sep|>'
+            "<|open|>response<|sep|>4<|close|>response<|sep|><|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>"
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>And 3+3?<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>' + _GENERATION_PROMPT,
+            id="assistant_turn",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris and Oslo?"},
+                {
+                    "role": "assistant",
+                    "content": None,
+                    "tool_calls": [_call("c1", {"city": "Paris", "days": 3}), _call("c2", {"city": "Oslo"})],
+                },
+                {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c2", "content": "Snow"},
+                {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"},
+            ],
+            [_WEATHER],
+            '<|open|>message role="system" type="tool-declare"<|sep|># Tools\n'
+            "Here are the available tools, described in JSONSchema.\n\n```json\n"
+            '[{"function":{"description":"Get the weather in °C","name":"get_weather","parameters":{"properties":'
+            '{"city":{"type":"string"},"days":{"type":"integer"}},"required":["city"],"type":"object"}},'
+            '"type":"function"}]\n```<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>Weather in Paris and Oslo?<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="assistant"<|sep|><|open|>think<|sep|><|close|>think<|sep|>'
+            "<|open|>response<|sep|><|close|>response<|sep|><|open|>tools<|sep|>"
+            '<|open|>call tool="get_weather" index="1"<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="city" type="string"<|sep|>Paris<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="days" type="number"<|sep|>3<|close|>argument<|sep|><|close|>call<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>call tool="get_weather" index="2"<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="city" type="string"<|sep|>Oslo<|close|>argument<|sep|><|close|>call<|sep|>'
+            "<|close|>tools<|sep|><|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>"
+            '<|open|>message role="tool" tool="get_weather" index="1"<|sep|>Sun<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="tool" tool="get_weather" index="2"<|sep|>Snow<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            + _GENERATION_PROMPT,
+            id="tool_results_out_of_call_order",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "user", "content": "Weather?"},
+                {
+                    "role": "assistant",
+                    "content": None,
+                    "tool_calls": [
+                        _call(
+                            "c1", {"a&b": 'x"y', "flag": True, "none": None, "list": [1, "zé"], "object": {"k": True}}
+                        )
+                    ],
+                },
+                {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "Rain"},
+            ],
+            [_WEATHER],
+            '<|open|>message role="system" type="tool-declare"<|sep|># Tools\n'
+            "Here are the available tools, described in JSONSchema.\n\n```json\n"
+            '[{"function":{"description":"Get the weather in °C","name":"get_weather","parameters":{"properties":'
+            '{"city":{"type":"string"},"days":{"type":"integer"}},"required":["city"],"type":"object"}},'
+            '"type":"function"}]\n```<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="user"<|sep|>Weather?<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            '<|open|>message role="assistant"<|sep|><|open|>think<|sep|><|close|>think<|sep|>'
+            "<|open|>response<|sep|><|close|>response<|sep|><|open|>tools<|sep|>"
+            '<|open|>call tool="get_weather" index="1"<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="a&amp;b" type="string"<|sep|>x"y<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="flag" type="boolean"<|sep|>true<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="none" type="null"<|sep|>null<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="list" type="array"<|sep|>[1, "zé"]<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            '<|open|>argument key="object" type="object"<|sep|>{"k": true}<|close|>argument<|sep|>'
+            "<|close|>call<|sep|><|close|>tools<|sep|><|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>"
+            '<|open|>message role="tool" tool="get_weather" index="1"<|sep|>Rain<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>'
+            + _GENERATION_PROMPT,
+            id="argument_types_and_escaping",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("encoding_fixture", ["byte_encoding", "pair_encoding"])
+def test_count_is_the_kimi_k3_chat_template_render_of_the_bedrock_request(
+    request: pytest.FixtureRequest,
+    encoding_fixture: str,
+    messages: list[dict[str, object]],
+    tools: list[dict[str, object]] | None,
+    rendered: str,
+):
+    encoding: Final[tiktoken.Encoding] = request.getfixturevalue(encoding_fixture)
+
+    assert kimi_k3_tokens(encoding, MODEL, messages, tools) == _template_count(encoding, rendered)
+
+
+def _parallel_calls(count: int) -> list[dict[str, object]]:
+    ids: Final = tuple(f"c{number}" for number in range(1, count + 1))
+    return [
+        {"role": "user", "content": "Weather?"},
+        {"role": "assistant", "content": None, "tool_calls": [_call(call_id, {"city": "Paris"}) for call_id in ids]},
+        *({"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": call_id, "content": "Sun"} for call_id in ids),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_tenth_parallel_call_and_its_result_are_numbered_ten(byte_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding):
+    nine: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(byte_encoding, MODEL, _parallel_calls(9), [_WEATHER])
+    ten: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(byte_encoding, MODEL, _parallel_calls(10), [_WEATHER])
+    assert nine is not None and ten is not None
+
+    assert ten - nine == _template_count(
+        byte_encoding,
+        '<|open|>call tool="get_weather" index="10"<|sep|>'
+        '<|open|>argument key="city" type="string"<|sep|>Paris<|close|>argument<|sep|><|close|>call<|sep|>'
+        '<|open|>message role="tool" tool="get_weather" index="10"<|sep|>Sun<|close|>message<|sep|><|end_of_msg|>',
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "text",
+    [
+        pytest.param("The quick brown fox, jumps over 12345 lazy dogs. " * 60, id="prose"),
+        pytest.param("a" + "1234567890" * 250 + "1", id="long_digit_run"),
+        pytest.param("--- " * 600, id="symbols"),
+        pytest.param("def f(x):\n    return x  # it's 42\n\n" * 80, id="code"),
+        pytest.param("word   next\t\ttab\n \n" * 120, id="whitespace"),
+        pytest.param("naïve café, “quotes” & <tags> 中文汉字，日本語のテキスト 😀🎉\r\n" * 40, id="unicode"),
+        pytest.param("We're sure they'd say it's DON'T or I'M " * 60, id="contractions"),
+        pytest.param("abc123def4567ghi89 " * 120, id="letters_and_digits"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_long_text_counts_what_the_tokenizer_counts_for_the_whole_text(pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, text: str):
+    def counted(content: str) -> int | None:
+        return kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, [{"role": "user", "content": content}], None)
+
+    short: Final = counted("x")
+    assert short is not None
+
+    assert counted(text) == short - len(pair_encoding.encode_ordinary("x")) + len(pair_encoding.encode_ordinary(text))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("messages", "tools"),
+    [
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "content": [
+                        {"type": "text", "text": "What is this?"},
+                        {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgo="}},
+                    ],
+                }
+            ],
+            None,
+            id="image",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [{"role": "user", "content": "Weather?"}, {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"}],
+            [_WEATHER],
+            id="tool_result_without_its_call",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_request_the_template_cannot_render_is_not_counted(
+    pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, messages: list[dict[str, object]], tools: list[dict[str, object]] | None
+):
+    assert kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, tools) is None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "tool",
+    [
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "type": "function",
+                "name": "get_weather",
+                "description": "Get the weather in °C",
+                "parameters": _WEATHER["function"]["parameters"],
+            },
+            id="responses_api",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "name": "get_weather",
+                "description": "Get the weather in °C",
+                "input_schema": _WEATHER["function"]["parameters"],
+            },
+            id="anthropic_messages",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_tool_in_another_api_shape_counts_like_the_same_chat_completions_tool(
+    pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, tool: dict[str, object]
+):
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"}]
+
+    counted: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [tool])
+
+    assert counted is not None
+    assert counted == kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "tool",
+    [
+        pytest.param({"type": "web_search_20250305", "name": "web_search"}, id="anthropic_web_search"),
+        pytest.param({"type": "web_search"}, id="responses_web_search"),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "type": "mcp",
+                "server_label": "docs",
+                "server_url": "https://mcp.example/mcp",
+                "require_approval": "never",
+            },
+            id="mcp",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_tool_bedrock_inference_drops_counts_like_the_function_tools_alone(
+    pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, tool: dict[str, object]
+):
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"}]
+
+    counted: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER, tool])
+
+    assert counted is not None
+    assert counted == kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER])
+
+
+def test_responses_custom_tool_counts_like_the_function_tool_inference_sends(pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding):
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"}]
+    custom_tool: Final = {"type": "custom", "name": "grammar", "description": "Free-form SQL"}
+    sent_to_inference, _ = LiteLLMCompletionResponsesConfig.transform_responses_api_tools_to_chat_completion_tools(
+        [dict(custom_tool)]
+    )
+
+    without_it: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER])
+
+    counted: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER, custom_tool])
+
+    assert counted is not None and without_it is not None
+    assert counted > without_it
+    assert counted == kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, [_WEATHER, *sent_to_inference])
+
+
+def test_counting_a_request_with_an_image_url_never_downloads_the_image(
+    pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding, respx_mock: respx.MockRouter, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "user_url_validation", False)
+    image: Final = respx_mock.get("https://images.example/cat.png").mock(return_value=httpx.Response(200))
+    messages: Final = [
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {"type": "text", "text": "What is this?"},
+                {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "https://images.example/cat.png"}},
+            ],
+        }
+    ]
+
+    assert kimi_k3_tokens(pair_encoding, MODEL, messages, None) is None
+    assert not image.called
+
+
+def test_anthropic_request_counts_like_the_same_openai_request(pair_encoding: tiktoken.Encoding):
+    anthropic: Final = kimi_k3_anthropic_tokens(
+        pair_encoding,
+        MODEL,
+        {
+            "system": "Be terse.",
+            "messages": [
+                {"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"},
+                {
+                    "role": "assistant",
+                    "content": [{"type": "tool_use", "id": "c1", "name": "get_weather", "input": {"city": "Paris"}}],
+                },
+                {"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "tool_result", "tool_use_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"}]},
+            ],
+            "tools": [
+                {
+                    "name": "get_weather",
+                    "description": "Get the weather in °C",
+                    "input_schema": _WEATHER["function"]["parameters"],
+                }
+            ],
+        },
+    )
+    openai: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(
+        pair_encoding,
+        MODEL,
+        [
+            {"role": "system", "content": "Be terse."},
+            {"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"},
+            {"role": "assistant", "content": None, "tool_calls": [_call("c1", {"city": "Paris"})]},
+            {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"},
+        ],
+        [_WEATHER],
+    )
+
+    assert openai is not None
+    assert anthropic == openai
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("failure", ["checksum", "missing_file"])
+def test_tokenizer_that_fails_its_checksum_or_cannot_be_read_is_not_loaded(
+    byte_source: KimiK3TokenizerSource, tmp_path: Path, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture, failure: str
+):
+    source: Final = (
+        KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=byte_source.ranks_path, sha256=hashlib.sha256(b"other").hexdigest())
+        if failure == "checksum"
+        else KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=lambda: str(tmp_path / "missing"), sha256=byte_source.sha256)
+    )
+    verbose_logger.addHandler(caplog.handler)
+    try:
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger=verbose_logger.name):
+            loaded: Final = load_kimi_k3_encoding(source)
+    finally:
+        verbose_logger.removeHandler(caplog.handler)
+
+    assert loaded is None
+    assert any("Kimi K3 tokenizer unavailable" in record.getMessage() for record in caplog.records)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_slow_tokenizer_load_is_not_waited_on_past_the_wait_and_is_shared_once_done(
+    byte_source: KimiK3TokenizerSource,
+):
+    released: Final = threading.Event()
+
+    def slow_ranks_path() -> str:
+        released.wait(10)
+        return byte_source.ranks_path()
+
+    encodings: Final = KimiK3Encodings(
+        source=KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=slow_ranks_path, sha256=byte_source.sha256),
+        retry_after_seconds=60,
+        clock=lambda: 0.0,
+    )
+
+    assert await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=0) is None
+    released.set()
+    loaded: Final = await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=5)
+    assert loaded is not None
+    assert await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=0) is loaded
+
+
+class _Clock:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.now = 0.0
+
+    def __call__(self) -> float:
+        return self.now
+
+
+async def _loaded_eventually(encodings: KimiK3Encodings) -> tiktoken.Encoding | None:
+    for _ in range(500):
+        if (loaded := await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=0)) is not None:
+            return loaded
+        await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+    return None
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_failed_tokenizer_load_is_retried_in_the_background_only_after_the_retry_window(
+    byte_source: KimiK3TokenizerSource, tmp_path: Path
+):
+    clock: Final = _Clock()
+    reads: Final[list[float]] = []
+    released: Final = threading.Event()
+
+    def ranks_path() -> str:
+        reads.append(clock.now)
+        if len(reads) == 1:
+            return str(tmp_path / "missing")
+        released.wait(10)
+        return byte_source.ranks_path()
+
+    encodings: Final = KimiK3Encodings(
+        source=KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=ranks_path, sha256=byte_source.sha256),
+        retry_after_seconds=60,
+        clock=clock,
+    )
+
+    assert await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=5) is None
+    clock.now = 59.0
+    assert await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=5) is None
+    clock.now = 60.0
+    assert await asyncio.wait_for(encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=5), timeout=1) is None
+    released.set()
+    assert await _loaded_eventually(encodings) is not None
+    assert reads == [0.0, 60.0]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_tokenizer_load_still_running_after_the_wait_is_logged(
+    byte_source: KimiK3TokenizerSource, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture
+):
+    released: Final = threading.Event()
+
+    def hung_ranks_path() -> str:
+        released.wait(10)
+        return byte_source.ranks_path()
+
+    encodings: Final = KimiK3Encodings(
+        source=KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=hung_ranks_path, sha256=byte_source.sha256), retry_after_seconds=60
+    )
+    verbose_logger.addHandler(caplog.handler)
+    try:
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger=verbose_logger.name):
+            loaded: Final = await encodings.encoding(wait_seconds=0.05)
+    finally:
+        verbose_logger.removeHandler(caplog.handler)
+        released.set()
+
+    assert loaded is None
+    assert any("Kimi K3 tokenizer still loading" in record.getMessage() for record in caplog.records)
diff --git a/tests/unit/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py b/tests/unit/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
index 65a9f6f044d..a45773b93fc 100644
--- a/tests/unit/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
+++ b/tests/unit/llms/openai/responses/count_tokens/test_token_counter.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ async def test_count_reports_upstream_input_tokens_and_keeps_the_raw_payload(
             "request_model": "openai/gpt-4o",
             "model_used": "gpt-4o",
             "tokenizer_type": "openai_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": payload,
             "error": False,
             "error_message": None,
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ async def test_non_integer_input_tokens_becomes_an_error_response_carrying_the_v
             "request_model": "openai/gpt-4o",
             "model_used": "gpt-4o",
             "tokenizer_type": "openai_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": str(rejection.value),
@@ -126,6 +128,7 @@ async def test_count_payload_that_is_not_an_object_becomes_an_error_response_nam
             "request_model": "openai/gpt-4o",
             "model_used": "gpt-4o",
             "tokenizer_type": "openai_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": str(failed_lookup.value),
@@ -156,6 +159,7 @@ async def test_upstream_error_status_becomes_an_error_response_with_that_status_
             "request_model": "openai/gpt-4o",
             "model_used": "gpt-4o",
             "tokenizer_type": "openai_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": upstream_text,
@@ -382,6 +386,7 @@ async def test_undecodable_count_body_becomes_a_500_error_response_carrying_the_
             "request_model": "openai/gpt-4o",
             "model_used": "gpt-4o",
             "tokenizer_type": "openai_api",
+            "count_source": None,
             "original_response": None,
             "error": True,
             "error_message": f"CountTokens processing error: {undecodable.value}",
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_token_count_settings.py b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_token_count_settings.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..84a32a02a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/common_utils/test_token_count_settings.py
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+import json
+from typing import Final
+
+import pytest
+
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import (
+    ProviderCountFailure,
+    TokenCountModel,
+    TokenCountSettings,
+    count_source_fields,
+    resolve_token_count_settings,
+)
+from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
+
+_OPUS_US_EAST_1: Final = TokenCountModel(model="anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region="us-east-1")
+_DEFAULT: Final = {
+    "token_count_framing": 97,
+    "token_count_model": {"model": "anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "us-east-1"},
+}
+
+
+def _in_us_west_2() -> str:
+    return "us-west-2"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("configured", "expected"),
+    [
+        ({}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        (
+            {"token_count_framing": 5, "token_count_model": {"model": "custom-model", "region": "ap-southeast-4"}},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=5, count_model=TokenCountModel(model="custom-model", region="ap-southeast-4")),
+        ),
+        (
+            {"token_count_model": {"model": "custom-model"}},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=TokenCountModel(model="custom-model", region=None)),
+        ),
+        (
+            {"token_count_model": {"model": "custom-model", "region": " "}},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=TokenCountModel(model="custom-model", region=None)),
+        ),
+        ({"token_count_framing": 0}, TokenCountSettings(framing=0, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        (
+            {"token_count_framing": None, "token_count_model": None},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1),
+        ),
+        (
+            {"token_count_framing": True, "token_count_model": "custom-model"},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1),
+        ),
+        ({"token_count_framing": 78.0}, TokenCountSettings(framing=78, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        ({"token_count_framing": 1.5}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        ({"token_count_framing": -1}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        ({"token_count_framing": "78"}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        ({"token_count_model": {}}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=None)),
+        ({"token_count_model": ""}, TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=_OPUS_US_EAST_1)),
+        (
+            {"token_count_model": {"model": "  ", "region": "us-east-1"}},
+            TokenCountSettings(framing=97, count_model=None),
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_config_overrides_the_cost_map_default_key_by_key(
+    configured: dict[str, object], expected: TokenCountSettings
+) -> None:
+    assert (
+        resolve_token_count_settings(configured=configured, default=_DEFAULT, deployment_region=_in_us_west_2)
+        == expected
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("deployment_region", "configured", "expected_region"),
+    [
+        ("us-west-2", {}, "us-east-1"),
+        ("eu-central-1", {}, None),
+        ("ca-central-1", {}, None),
+        ("us-gov-west-1", {}, None),
+        (
+            "eu-central-1",
+            {"token_count_model": {"model": "anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "us-east-1"}},
+            "us-east-1",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_shipped_count_region_never_takes_the_prompt_out_of_the_deployment_geography(
+    deployment_region: str, configured: dict[str, object], expected_region: str | None
+) -> None:
+    settings: Final = resolve_token_count_settings(
+        configured=configured, default=_DEFAULT, deployment_region=lambda: deployment_region
+    )
+    assert settings.count_model == TokenCountModel(model="anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region=expected_region)
+
+
+def test_shipped_global_count_model_keeps_its_region_for_a_deployment_in_any_geography() -> None:
+    settings: Final = resolve_token_count_settings(
+        configured={},
+        default={"token_count_model": {"model": "global.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "us-east-1"}},
+        deployment_region=lambda: "eu-west-1",
+    )
+    assert settings.count_model == TokenCountModel(model="global.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region="us-east-1")
+
+
+def test_shipped_australian_count_region_stays_with_an_australian_deployment() -> None:
+    settings: Final = resolve_token_count_settings(
+        configured={},
+        default={"token_count_model": {"model": "au.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "ap-southeast-4"}},
+        deployment_region=lambda: "ap-southeast-2",
+    )
+    assert settings.count_model == TokenCountModel(model="au.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region="ap-southeast-4")
+
+
+def test_no_setting_anywhere_means_the_model_counts_itself_without_framing() -> None:
+    assert resolve_token_count_settings(
+        configured={}, default={}, deployment_region=_in_us_west_2
+    ) == TokenCountSettings(framing=None, count_model=None)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("value", "expected"),
+    [("kimi_k3", "kimi_k3"), ("cl100k_base", None), (None, None), (True, None)],
+)
+def test_only_a_tokenizer_litellm_ships_is_taken_from_the_cost_map(value: object, expected: str | None) -> None:
+    settings: Final = resolve_token_count_settings(
+        configured={}, default={"token_count_tokenizer": value}, deployment_region=_in_us_west_2
+    )
+    assert settings.tokenizer == expected
+
+
+def _counted(source: str | None, model_used: str = "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5") -> TokenCountResponse:
+    return TokenCountResponse(
+        total_tokens=7,
+        request_model="sonnet",
+        model_used=model_used,
+        tokenizer_type="bedrock_api",
+        count_source=source,
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("source", "expected"),
+    [
+        (None, {}),
+        ("provider", {"litellm_count_source": "provider"}),
+        ("local_estimate", {"litellm_count_source": "local_estimate"}),
+        (
+            "token_count_model",
+            {"litellm_count_source": "token_count_model", "litellm_count_model": "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5"},
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_count_source_fields_name_the_counting_model_only_when_token_count_model_counted(
+    source: str | None, expected: dict[str, str]
+) -> None:
+    assert count_source_fields(_counted(source)) == expected
+
+
+_UPSTREAM_404: Final = {
+    "type": "error",
+    "request_id": "req_upstream",
+    "error": {"type": "not_found_error", "message": "The model 'anthropic.claude-opus-5-5' does not exist"},
+}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("message", "expected"),
+    [
+        (
+            json.dumps(_UPSTREAM_404),
+            {
+                **_UPSTREAM_404,
+                "error": {
+                    "type": "not_found_error",
+                    "message": "The model 'anthropic.claude-opus-5-5' does not exist. Enable eu-west-1",
+                },
+            },
+        ),
+        (json.dumps({"message": "Too many tokens"}), "Too many tokens. Enable eu-west-1"),
+        ("scripted 404", "scripted 404. Enable eu-west-1"),
+        (
+            "Credential should be scoped to a valid region. ",
+            "Credential should be scoped to a valid region. Enable eu-west-1",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_hint_lands_in_the_upstream_error_message_and_keeps_its_envelope(message: str, expected: object) -> None:
+    hinted: Final = ProviderCountFailure(status_code=404, message=message).with_hint("Enable eu-west-1")
+
+    assert (json.loads(hinted.message) if isinstance(expected, dict) else hinted.message) == expected
+    assert hinted.status_code == 404
diff --git a/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_token_counter.py b/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_token_counter.py
index 869e7eb60d2..86556f1c7bd 100644
--- a/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_token_counter.py
+++ b/tests/unit/proxy/test_proxy_token_counter.py
@@ -2,14 +2,32 @@
 # 1. Generate a Key, and use it to make a call
 
 
+import asyncio
+import base64
+import hashlib
+import itertools
 import json
-from typing import Final
+import logging
+import threading
+import time
+import traceback
+from collections.abc import Callable, Coroutine, Iterator, Mapping
+from functools import partial
+from pathlib import Path
+from types import MappingProxyType
+from typing import Final, NoReturn
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock, patch
 
+import anyio
 import httpx
 import pytest
+import tiktoken
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, JsonValue
+from tokenizers import Tokenizer
+from tokenizers.models import WordLevel
+from tokenizers.pre_tokenizers import Whitespace
+from tokenizers.processors import TemplateProcessing
 
 load_dotenv()
 
@@ -21,10 +39,20 @@ from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse
 
 import litellm
 from litellm import Router
+from litellm._logging import verbose_proxy_logger
 from litellm.llms.anthropic.count_tokens import handler as anthropic_count_tokens_handler
+from litellm.llms.base_llm.base_utils import BaseTokenCounter
 from litellm.llms.bedrock.common_utils import BedrockError
 from litellm.llms.bedrock.count_tokens.bedrock_token_counter import BedrockTokenCounter
 from litellm.llms.bedrock.count_tokens.handler import BedrockCountTokensHandler
+from litellm.llms.bedrock.count_tokens.kimi_k3 import (
+    KIMI_K3_RANKS_SHA256,
+    KimiK3Encodings,
+    KimiK3TokenizerSource,
+    kimi_k3_template_tokens,
+    kimi_k3_tokens,
+    load_kimi_k3_encoding,
+)
 from litellm.llms.custom_httpx.http_handler import AsyncHTTPHandler
 from litellm.llms.gemini.count_tokens import handler as gemini_count_tokens_handler
 from litellm.llms.vertex_ai.vertex_ai_partner_models.count_tokens.handler import VertexAIPartnerModelsTokenCounter
@@ -32,8 +60,59 @@ from litellm.proxy._types import ProxyException, TokenCountRequest
 from litellm.proxy.anthropic_endpoints.endpoints import (
     count_tokens as anthropic_count_tokens,
 )
-from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import token_counter
-from litellm.types.utils import TokenCountResponse
+from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import (
+    ProviderCountFailure,
+    TokenCountModel,
+    TokenCountSettings,
+    cost_map_entry,
+)
+from litellm.proxy.google_endpoints.endpoints import _google_count_tokens_request
+from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import (
+    _estimate_or_provider_error,
+    _provider_token_count,
+    _try_provider_token_count,
+    count_request_tokens,
+    token_counter,
+)
+from litellm.rust_bridge.fork_guard import ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted
+from litellm.types.secret_managers.main import KeyManagementSettings, KeyManagementSystem
+from litellm.types.utils import SelectTokenizerResponse, TokenCountMessagesFormat, TokenCountResponse
+
+
+def _hugging_face_offline() -> NoReturn:
+    raise OSError("unit tests never download the Kimi K3 tokenizer")
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _kimi_k3_tokenizer_unavailable(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "_KIMI_K3_ENCODINGS",
+        KimiK3Encodings(
+            source=KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=_hugging_face_offline, sha256=KIMI_K3_RANKS_SHA256),
+            retry_after_seconds=60,
+        ),
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main() -> Iterator[None]:
+    entries: Final = {
+        name: {
+            "litellm_provider": "bedrock_converse",
+            "mode": "chat",
+            "token_count_model": {"model": count_model, "region": "us-east-1"},
+        }
+        for name, count_model in (
+            ("anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5", "anthropic.claude-opus-5-5"),
+            ("us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5", "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5"),
+        )
+    }
+    with pytest.MonkeyPatch.context() as patched:
+        patched.setattr(litellm, "model_cost", {**litellm.model_cost, **entries})
+        litellm.utils._invalidate_model_cost_lowercase_map()
+        yield
+    litellm.utils._invalidate_model_cost_lowercase_map()
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
@@ -1179,6 +1258,1285 @@ async def test_anthropic_endpoint_429_rate_limit_error_format():
         proxy_server.count_request_tokens = original_token_counter
 
 
+class _ScriptedCounter(BaseTokenCounter):
+    def __init__(self, replies: dict[str, TokenCountResponse], burst: int = 1) -> None:
+        self._replies = replies
+        self._burst = burst
+        self._burst_arrived = asyncio.Event()
+        self.calls: list[tuple[str, object, object, object]] = []
+        self.regions: list[object] = []
+
+    def should_use_token_counting_api(self, custom_llm_provider: str | None = None) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    async def count_tokens(
+        self,
+        model_to_use: str,
+        messages: object,
+        contents: object,
+        deployment: object = None,
+        request_model: str = "",
+        tools: object = None,
+        system: object = None,
+        messages_format: TokenCountMessagesFormat = "openai",
+        output_format: JsonValue = None,
+        context_management: object = None,
+    ) -> TokenCountResponse | None:
+        self.calls.append((model_to_use, messages, tools, system))
+        self.regions.append(None if deployment is None else deployment["litellm_params"].get("aws_region_name"))
+        if len(self.calls) >= self._burst:
+            self._burst_arrived.set()
+        await self._burst_arrived.wait()
+        return self._replies[model_to_use]
+
+
+def _provider_reply(
+    model: str, total_tokens: int = 0, status_code: int | None = None, rejected_before_provider_call: bool = False
+) -> TokenCountResponse:
+    return TokenCountResponse(
+        total_tokens=total_tokens,
+        request_model="sonnet-5-5",
+        model_used=model,
+        tokenizer_type="bedrock_api",
+        error=status_code is not None,
+        error_message=None if status_code is None else f"scripted {status_code} for {model}",
+        status_code=status_code,
+        rejected_before_provider_call=rejected_before_provider_call,
+    )
+
+
+_COUNT_REQUEST = TokenCountRequest(
+    model="sonnet-5-5",
+    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}],
+    tools=[{"name": "get_quote", "input_schema": {"type": "object"}}],
+    system="be brief",
+)
+
+
+_SONNET_DEPLOYMENT: Final = MappingProxyType(
+    {"litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5", "aws_region_name": "us-west-2"}}
+)
+_OPUS_IN_US_EAST_1: Final = TokenCountModel(model="us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region="us-east-1")
+
+
+async def _ladder(
+    counter: _ScriptedCounter, settings: TokenCountSettings, local_estimate_allowed: bool = True
+) -> TokenCountResponse | None:
+    return await _provider_token_count(
+        count_with=partial(
+            _try_provider_token_count,
+            counter,
+            "bedrock",
+            messages=_COUNT_REQUEST.messages,
+            contents=_COUNT_REQUEST.contents,
+            deployment=_SONNET_DEPLOYMENT,
+            request_model=_COUNT_REQUEST.model,
+            tools=_COUNT_REQUEST.tools,
+            system=_COUNT_REQUEST.system,
+        ),
+        model_to_use="us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5",
+        settings=settings,
+        local_estimate_allowed=local_estimate_allowed,
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_model_without_token_count_model_counts_itself_in_the_deployment_region():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", total_tokens=447)})
+
+    result: Final = await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=10, count_model=None))
+
+    assert result is not None
+    assert (result.total_tokens, result.count_source) == (447, "provider")
+    assert ([call[0] for call in counter.calls], counter.regions) == (["us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5"], ["us-west-2"])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("count_model", "region"),
+    [
+        (_OPUS_IN_US_EAST_1, "us-east-1"),
+        (TokenCountModel(model="us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region=None), "us-west-2"),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_token_count_model_counts_the_same_request_in_its_own_region_without_trying_the_model(
+    count_model: TokenCountModel, region: str
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", total_tokens=447)})
+
+    result: Final = await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=None, count_model=count_model))
+
+    assert result is not None
+    assert (result.total_tokens, result.count_source, result.model_used) == (
+        447,
+        "token_count_model",
+        "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5",
+    )
+    assert ([call[0] for call in counter.calls], counter.regions) == (["us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5"], [region])
+    assert counter.calls[0][1:] == (_COUNT_REQUEST.messages, _COUNT_REQUEST.tools, _COUNT_REQUEST.system)
+    assert _SONNET_DEPLOYMENT["litellm_params"]["aws_region_name"] == "us-west-2"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("status_code", [401, 403, 429, 500])
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_errors_other_than_cannot_count_raise_even_with_framing(status_code: int):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", status_code=status_code)}
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=10, count_model=None))
+
+    assert (raised.value.code, raised.value.message) == (str(status_code), f"scripted {status_code} for sonnet")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("status_code", [400, 403, 404, 500])
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_token_count_model_failure_names_its_region_so_the_user_can_enable_it(status_code: int):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {"us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", status_code=status_code)}
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=None, count_model=_OPUS_IN_US_EAST_1))
+
+    assert raised.value.code == str(status_code)
+    assert raised.value.message.startswith(f"scripted {status_code} for opus")
+    assert "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5 in us-east-1" in raised.value.message
+    assert len(counter.calls) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_token_count_model_without_a_region_answers_its_error_unchanged():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", status_code=404)})
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(
+            counter,
+            TokenCountSettings(
+                framing=None, count_model=TokenCountModel(model="us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", region=None)
+            ),
+        )
+
+    assert (raised.value.code, raised.value.message) == ("404", "scripted 404 for opus")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_uncountable_model_without_framing_raises():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", status_code=404)})
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=None, count_model=None))
+
+    assert raised.value.code == "404"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_uncountable_model_with_framing_falls_through_to_the_local_estimate():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", status_code=400)})
+
+    result: Final = await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=0, count_model=None))
+
+    assert isinstance(result, ProviderCountFailure)
+    assert len(counter.calls) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("status_code", [400, 404])
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_token_count_model_error_stands_even_with_framing(status_code: int):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {"us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", status_code=status_code)}
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=78, count_model=_OPUS_IN_US_EAST_1))
+
+    assert raised.value.code == str(status_code)
+    assert "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5 in us-east-1" in raised.value.message
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_uncountable_model_with_framing_raises_when_local_counting_is_disabled():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", status_code=400)})
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=10, count_model=None), local_estimate_allowed=False)
+
+    assert raised.value.code == "400"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_request_the_counter_rejects_before_calling_the_provider_answers_400_without_framing():
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {
+            "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply(
+                "sonnet", status_code=400, rejected_before_provider_call=True
+            )
+        }
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await _ladder(counter, TokenCountSettings(framing=100, count_model=None))
+
+    assert (raised.value.code, raised.value.message) == ("400", "scripted 400 for sonnet")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("model", ["openai/gpt-5.4-mini", "gemini/gemini-3.8-flash"])
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_framing_keeps_the_400_for_blocks_the_provider_counter_cannot_convert(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, model: str
+):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "framed",
+                    "litellm_params": {"model": model, "api_key": "sk-unused-framed"},
+                    "model_info": {"token_count_framing": 100},
+                }
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    search_result: Final = {"type": "search_result", "source": "https://example.com", "title": "Notes", "content": []}
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await count_request_tokens(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(
+                model="framed",
+                messages=[{"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "text", "text": "Summarize."}, search_result]}],
+            ),
+            call_endpoint=True,
+            messages_format="anthropic",
+        )
+
+    assert raised.value.code == "400"
+    assert "search_result" in raised.value.message
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "unreadable_body",
+    [
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "messages": [
+                    {"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"},
+                    {
+                        "role": "assistant",
+                        "content": [
+                            {
+                                "type": "server_tool_use",
+                                "id": "srvtoolu_01",
+                                "name": "web_search",
+                                "input": {"query": "new"},
+                            },
+                            {"type": "web_search_tool_result", "tool_use_id": "srvtoolu_01", "content": []},
+                        ],
+                    },
+                ]
+            },
+            id="web_search_blocks",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}],
+                "tools": [{"name": "search", "input_schema": {"type": "object", "properties": {"query": True}}}],
+            },
+            id="boolean_subschema_tool",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}],
+                "tools": [
+                    {"name": "search", "input_schema": {"type": "object", "properties": {"tags": {"type": "array"}}}}
+                ],
+            },
+            id="array_schema_without_items",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {"messages": [], "contents": [{"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "What is new?"}]}]},
+            id="google_contents",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Describe this"}],
+                "contents": [
+                    {
+                        "role": "user",
+                        "parts": [
+                            {"text": "Describe this"},
+                            {"fileData": {"mimeType": "image/png", "fileUri": "gs://b/c.png"}},
+                        ],
+                    }
+                ],
+            },
+            id="google_contents_with_media_the_translation_dropped",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            {
+                "messages": [
+                    {"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"},
+                    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Weighing the release notes"},
+                ],
+                "contents": [
+                    {"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "What is new?"}]},
+                    {"role": "model", "parts": [{"text": "Weighing the release notes", "thought": True}]},
+                ],
+            },
+            id="google_contents_with_a_thought_the_translation_counts_as_text",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+async def test_framed_estimate_that_cannot_read_the_body_answers_the_provider_error(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, unreadable_body: dict[str, list[dict[str, object]]]
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(model_list=[{"model_name": "kimi", "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"}}]),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", **unreadable_body), call_endpoint=True)
+    readable: Final = await token_counter(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}]),
+        call_endpoint=True,
+    )
+
+    assert (raised.value.code, raised.value.message) == ("400", "scripted 400 for kimi")
+    assert readable.count_source == "local_estimate"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "contents",
+    [
+        pytest.param([{"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "What is new in the release notes?"}]}], id="text"),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "Weather in Paris?"}]},
+                {
+                    "role": "model",
+                    "parts": [
+                        {"functionCall": {"name": "get_weather", "args": {"city": "Paris"}}, "thoughtSignature": "c2ln"}
+                    ],
+                },
+                {
+                    "role": "user",
+                    "parts": [{"functionResponse": {"name": "get_weather", "response": {"forecast": "Sun"}}}],
+                },
+            ],
+            id="sdk_agent_loop",
+        ),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "Hi"}]},
+                {"role": "model", "parts": [{"text": "Hello!", "thoughtSignature": "c2ln"}]},
+                {"role": "user", "parts": [{"text": "What is new?"}]},
+            ],
+            id="sdk_chat_with_a_thought_signature",
+        ),
+        pytest.param([], id="empty"),
+    ],
+)
+async def test_framed_estimate_counts_google_contents_like_the_same_conversation_sent_as_messages(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, contents: list[dict[str, object]]
+):
+    _framed_kimi(monkeypatch)
+    google_request: Final = _google_count_tokens_request("kimi", {"contents": contents})
+
+    from_google: Final = await token_counter(request=google_request, call_endpoint=True)
+    from_messages: Final = await token_counter(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=google_request.messages), call_endpoint=True
+    )
+
+    assert from_google.count_source == "local_estimate"
+    assert from_google.total_tokens == from_messages.total_tokens
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_framed_deployment_whose_custom_tokenizer_cannot_load_answers_the_provider_error(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "kimi",
+                    "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"},
+                    "model_info": {"custom_tokenizer": {"identifier": "moonshotai/kimi-k3", "revision": "main"}},
+                }
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await token_counter(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}]),
+            call_endpoint=True,
+        )
+
+    assert (raised.value.code, raised.value.message) == ("400", "scripted 400 for kimi")
+
+
+def _framed_kimis_with_custom_tokenizers(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tokenizers: Mapping[str, tuple[str, str]], burst: int = 1
+) -> None:
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {
+            "us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400),
+            "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", total_tokens=12),
+        },
+        burst=burst,
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "sonnet",
+                    "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5"},
+                    "model_info": {"token_count_model": {}},
+                },
+                *(
+                    {
+                        "model_name": name,
+                        "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"},
+                        "model_info": {
+                            "custom_tokenizer": {"identifier": identifier, "revision": revision, "auth_token": None}
+                        },
+                    }
+                    for name, (identifier, revision) in tokenizers.items()
+                ),
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+
+def _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, identifier: str) -> None:
+    _framed_kimis_with_custom_tokenizers(monkeypatch, {"kimi": (identifier, "main")})
+
+
+async def _count_status(model: str = "kimi") -> str:
+    try:
+        response: Final = await token_counter(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(model=model, messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}]),
+            call_endpoint=True,
+        )
+    except ProxyException as e:
+        return e.code
+    return response.count_source or ""
+
+
+class _SkippableClockLoop(asyncio.SelectorEventLoop):
+    skipped_seconds: float = 0.0
+
+    def time(self) -> float:
+        return super().time() + self.skipped_seconds
+
+    def skip(self, seconds: float) -> None:
+        self.skipped_seconds += seconds
+
+
+def _run_on_skippable_clock(
+    scenario: Callable[[_SkippableClockLoop], Coroutine[object, object, tuple[str, ...]]],
+) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+    loop: Final = _SkippableClockLoop()
+    try:
+        return loop.run_until_complete(scenario(loop))
+    finally:
+        loop.run_until_complete(loop.shutdown_default_executor())
+        loop.close()
+
+
+async def _until_finished(tasks: tuple[asyncio.Future[str], ...], count: int) -> None:
+    for finished in itertools.islice(asyncio.as_completed(tasks), count):
+        await finished
+
+
+def _tokenizer_that_panics_while_encoding() -> SelectTokenizerResponse:
+    template: Final = Tokenizer(WordLevel({"[UNK]": 0, "<s>": 1}, unk_token="[UNK]"))
+    template.pre_tokenizer = Whitespace()
+    template.post_processor = TemplateProcessing(single="<s> $A", special_tokens=[("<s>", 1)])
+    spec: Final = json.loads(template.to_str())
+    return litellm.utils.create_tokenizer(
+        json.dumps({**spec, "post_processor": {**spec["post_processor"], "special_tokens": {}}})
+    )
+
+
+def test_hanging_tokenizer_download_answers_the_provider_error_after_the_wait_with_one_download_while_it_runs(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/hanging-tokenizer")
+    download_started: Final = threading.Event()
+    hub_released: Final = threading.Event()
+    downloads: Final[list[str]] = []
+
+    def hanging_download(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> NoReturn:
+        downloads.append(model)
+        download_started.set()
+        hub_released.wait(10)
+        raise OSError("hub unreachable")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", hanging_download)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS", 30)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", 1e-9)
+
+    async def burst_past_the_wait_then_one_more(loop: _SkippableClockLoop) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+        try:
+            burst: Final = asyncio.gather(*(_count_status() for _ in range(60)))
+            await asyncio.to_thread(download_started.wait, 10)
+            loop.skip(31)
+            answered: Final = await asyncio.wait_for(burst, 8)
+            later: Final = await asyncio.wait_for(_count_status(), 8)
+        finally:
+            hub_released.set()
+        return (*answered, later)
+
+    assert set(_run_on_skippable_clock(burst_past_the_wait_then_one_more)) == {"400"}
+    assert len(downloads) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_framed_count_waits_for_a_tokenizer_download_that_finishes_within_the_wait(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/slow-tokenizer")
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    download_started: Final = threading.Event()
+    hub_released: Final = threading.Event()
+
+    def slow_download(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None):
+        download_started.set()
+        hub_released.wait(10)
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", slow_download)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS", 30)
+    count: Final = asyncio.create_task(_count_status())
+    try:
+        await asyncio.to_thread(download_started.wait, 10)
+    finally:
+        hub_released.set()
+
+    assert await asyncio.wait_for(count, 10) == "local_estimate"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_failed_tokenizer_download_is_reused_until_the_retry_window_passes(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/flaky-tokenizer")
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    downloads: Final[list[str]] = []
+
+    def hub_down_once(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None):
+        downloads.append(model)
+        if len(downloads) == 1:
+            raise OSError("hub unreachable")
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", hub_down_once)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", 1e9)
+    within_window: Final = [await _count_status() for _ in range(3)]
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", 1e-9)
+    after_window: Final = await _count_status()
+
+    assert within_window == ["400", "400", "400"]
+    assert after_window == "local_estimate"
+    assert len(downloads) == 2
+
+
+def test_failed_tokenizer_load_is_reused_for_the_window_after_it_fails(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/slow-failing-tokenizer")
+    download_started: Final = threading.Event()
+    hub_released: Final = threading.Event()
+    downloads: Final[list[str]] = []
+
+    def slow_failing_download(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> NoReturn:
+        downloads.append(model)
+        download_started.set()
+        hub_released.wait(10)
+        raise OSError("hub unreachable")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", slow_failing_download)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS", 1000)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", 60)
+
+    async def fail_after_longer_than_the_window_then_retry(loop: _SkippableClockLoop) -> tuple[str, ...]:
+        first: Final = asyncio.ensure_future(_count_status())
+        try:
+            await asyncio.to_thread(download_started.wait, 10)
+            loop.skip(120)
+        finally:
+            hub_released.set()
+        return await asyncio.wait_for(first, 8), await asyncio.wait_for(_count_status(), 8)
+
+    assert _run_on_skippable_clock(fail_after_longer_than_the_window_then_retry) == ("400", "400")
+    assert len(downloads) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "second_tokenizer",
+    [("lit-tests/tokenizer-b", "main"), ("lit-tests/tokenizer-a", "v2")],
+    ids=["identifier", "revision"],
+)
+async def test_framed_deployments_with_different_custom_tokenizers_each_load_their_own(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, second_tokenizer: tuple[str, str]
+):
+    _framed_kimis_with_custom_tokenizers(
+        monkeypatch, {"kimi-a": ("lit-tests/tokenizer-a", "main"), "kimi-b": second_tokenizer}
+    )
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    loaded: Final[list[object]] = []
+
+    def load(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> SelectTokenizerResponse:
+        loaded.append(custom_tokenizer)
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", load)
+
+    statuses: Final = [await _count_status(name) for name in ("kimi-a", "kimi-b")]
+
+    assert statuses == ["local_estimate", "local_estimate"]
+    assert loaded == [
+        {"identifier": "lit-tests/tokenizer-a", "revision": "main", "auth_token": None},
+        {"identifier": second_tokenizer[0], "revision": second_tokenizer[1], "auth_token": None},
+    ]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_tokenizer_loads_past_the_cap_answer_the_provider_error_without_stalling_other_counts(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    tokenizers: Final = {f"kimi-{n}": (f"lit-tests/unreachable-tokenizer-{n}", "main") for n in range(5)}
+    _framed_kimis_with_custom_tokenizers(monkeypatch, tokenizers, burst=len(tokenizers))
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    hub_released: Final = threading.Event()
+    downloads: Final[list[object]] = []
+
+    def held_download(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> SelectTokenizerResponse:
+        downloads.append(custom_tokenizer)
+        hub_released.wait(10)
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", held_download)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_MAX_RUNNING", 2)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_WAIT_SECONDS", 30)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(anyio.to_thread.current_default_thread_limiter(), "total_tokens", 2)
+    framed: Final = tuple(asyncio.ensure_future(_count_status(name)) for name in tokenizers)
+    try:
+        await asyncio.wait_for(_until_finished(framed, 3), 8)
+        unrelated: Final = await asyncio.wait_for(_count_status("sonnet"), 5)
+    finally:
+        hub_released.set()
+    statuses: Final = await asyncio.wait_for(asyncio.gather(*framed), 8)
+
+    assert sorted(statuses) == ["400"] * 3 + ["local_estimate"] * 2
+    assert unrelated == "provider"
+    assert len(downloads) == 2
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("panics_while", ["loading", "counting"])
+async def test_framed_count_answers_the_provider_error_when_the_tokenizer_panics(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, panics_while: str
+):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, f"lit-tests/panicking-tokenizer-{panics_while}")
+    panicking: Final = _tokenizer_that_panics_while_encoding()
+
+    def load(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> SelectTokenizerResponse:
+        if panics_while == "loading":
+            panicking["tokenizer"].encode("hello world")
+        return panicking
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", load)
+
+    assert await _count_status() == "400"
+
+
+def _framed_kimi(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(model_list=[{"model_name": "kimi", "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"}}]),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_local_count_loads_the_tokenizer_again_after_a_failed_load(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/local-route-tokenizer")
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    downloads: Final[list[str]] = []
+
+    def hub_down_once(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None):
+        downloads.append(model)
+        if len(downloads) == 1:
+            raise OSError("hub unreachable")
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", hub_down_once)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", 1e9)
+    request: Final = TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}])
+
+    with pytest.raises(OSError, match="hub unreachable"):
+        await token_counter(request=request)
+    retried: Final = await token_counter(request=request)
+
+    assert retried.count_source == "local_estimate" and retried.total_tokens > 0
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("reuse_seconds", "tokenizer_types"),
+    [(1e9, ("openai_tokenizer", "openai_tokenizer")), (1e-9, ("openai_tokenizer", "huggingface_tokenizer"))],
+    ids=["within_the_window", "after_the_window"],
+)
+async def test_framed_count_loads_the_tokenizer_again_only_after_the_window_of_a_load_that_fell_back(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, reuse_seconds: float, tokenizer_types: tuple[str, str]
+):
+    _framed_kimi(monkeypatch)
+    real_select_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer
+    hub_tokenizer: Final = litellm.utils.create_tokenizer(
+        Tokenizer(WordLevel({"[UNK]": 0}, unk_token="[UNK]")).to_str()
+    )
+    loads: Final[list[str]] = []
+
+    def hub_up_on_the_second_load(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None):
+        loads.append(model)
+        return real_select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini") if len(loads) == 1 else hub_tokenizer
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", hub_up_on_the_second_load)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_REUSE_SECONDS", reuse_seconds)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "TOKENIZER_LOAD_MAX_RUNNING", 1)
+    request: Final = TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}])
+
+    first: Final = await token_counter(request=request, call_endpoint=True)
+    second: Final = await token_counter(request=request, call_endpoint=True)
+
+    assert (first.tokenizer_type, second.tokenizer_type) == tokenizer_types
+
+
+async def _fork_guard_traceback_frames() -> int:
+    with pytest.raises(ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted) as raised:
+        await token_counter(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}]),
+            call_endpoint=True,
+        )
+    return len(traceback.extract_tb(raised.value.__traceback__))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fork_guard_error_while_loading_the_tokenizer_is_raised_to_every_count_sharing_the_load(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    _framed_kimi(monkeypatch)
+
+    def forked_load(model: str, custom_tokenizer: object = None) -> NoReturn:
+        raise ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted("native runtime started before fork")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", forked_load)
+
+    frames: Final = [await _fork_guard_traceback_frames() for _ in range(3)]
+
+    assert len(set(frames)) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_swallowed_estimate_error_is_logged_by_type_without_the_request_content(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, caplog: pytest.LogCaptureFixture
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(model_list=[{"model_name": "kimi", "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"}}]),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+    verbose_proxy_logger.addHandler(caplog.handler)
+    try:
+        with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING, logger=verbose_proxy_logger.name), pytest.raises(ProxyException):
+            await token_counter(
+                request=TokenCountRequest(
+                    model="kimi",
+                    messages=[
+                        {"role": "user", "content": "hi"},
+                        {"role": "assistant", "content": "ok", "tool_calls": "private-marker-in-the-prompt"},
+                    ],
+                ),
+                call_endpoint=True,
+            )
+    finally:
+        verbose_proxy_logger.removeHandler(caplog.handler)
+
+    warnings: Final = [r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records if r.levelno == logging.WARNING]
+    assert any("count error 400" in message and "ValueError" in message for message in warnings)
+    assert not any("private-marker-in-the-prompt" in message for message in warnings)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_fork_guard_error_in_the_estimate_is_never_answered_as_the_provider_error():
+    async def forked_estimate() -> NoReturn:
+        raise ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted("native runtime started before fork")
+
+    with pytest.raises(ForkedAfterNativeRuntimeStarted):
+        await _estimate_or_provider_error(
+            forked_estimate(), provider_failure=ProviderCountFailure(status_code=400, message="scripted 400")
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_local_estimate_adds_the_configured_framing_once_per_request(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    def deployment(name: str, model_info: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, object]:
+        return {
+            "model_name": name,
+            "litellm_params": {"model": "openai/gpt-5.4-mini", "api_key": f"sk-unused-{name}"},
+            "model_info": model_info,
+        }
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(model_list=[deployment("framed", {"token_count_framing": 100}), deployment("plain", {})]),
+    )
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "system", "content": "be brief"}, {"role": "user", "content": "hello there"}]
+
+    plain: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="plain", messages=messages))
+    framed: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="framed", messages=messages))
+    framed_prompt: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="framed", prompt="hello there"))
+
+    assert plain.total_tokens == litellm.token_counter(model="gpt-5.4-mini", messages=messages)
+    assert framed.total_tokens == plain.total_tokens + 100
+    assert (plain.count_source, framed.count_source) == ("local_estimate", "local_estimate")
+    assert framed_prompt.total_tokens == litellm.token_counter(model="gpt-5.4-mini", text="hello there")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_framing_comes_from_the_row_the_deployment_provider_or_base_model_names(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    def deployment(name: str, litellm_params: dict[str, object], model_info: dict[str, object]) -> dict[str, object]:
+        return {
+            "model_name": name,
+            "litellm_params": {**litellm_params, "api_key": "unused", "api_base": "https://unused.invalid"},
+            "model_info": model_info,
+        }
+
+    kimi: Final = "databricks/system.ai.kimi-k3"
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                deployment("prefixed", {"model": kimi}, {}),
+                deployment("split", {"model": "system.ai.kimi-k3", "custom_llm_provider": "databricks"}, {}),
+                deployment("aliased", {"model": "gpt-5.4-mini", "custom_llm_provider": "openai"}, {"base_model": kimi}),
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "hello there"}]
+    framing: Final = cost_map_entry(kimi)["token_count_framing"]
+
+    prefixed: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="prefixed", messages=messages))
+    split: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="split", messages=messages))
+    aliased: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="aliased", messages=messages))
+
+    assert prefixed.total_tokens == litellm.token_counter(model="system.ai.kimi-k3", messages=messages) + framing
+    assert split.total_tokens == prefixed.total_tokens
+    assert aliased.total_tokens == litellm.token_counter(model="gpt-5.4-mini", messages=messages) + framing
+
+
+_KIMI_WEATHER: Final = {
+    "type": "function",
+    "function": {
+        "name": "get_weather",
+        "description": "Get the weather",
+        "parameters": {"type": "object", "properties": {"city": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["city"]},
+    },
+}
+
+
+def _byte_level_kimi_k3(path: Path) -> KimiK3TokenizerSource:
+    path.write_bytes(b"\n".join(base64.b64encode(bytes((value,))) + b" %d" % value for value in range(256)))
+    return KimiK3TokenizerSource(ranks_path=lambda: str(path), sha256=hashlib.sha256(path.read_bytes()).hexdigest())
+
+
+def _available_kimi_k3(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path) -> tiktoken.Encoding:
+    source: Final = _byte_level_kimi_k3(tmp_path / "tiktoken.model")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_KIMI_K3_ENCODINGS", KimiK3Encodings(source=source, retry_after_seconds=60)
+    )
+    encoding: Final = load_kimi_k3_encoding(source)
+    assert encoding is not None
+    return encoding
+
+
+def _shipped_kimi_k3_framing() -> int:
+    framing: Final = cost_map_entry("bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3")["token_count_framing"]
+    assert isinstance(framing, int)
+    return framing
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bedrock_kimi_k3_is_counted_with_its_tokenizer_plus_the_shipped_framing_in_both_request_formats(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path
+):
+    _framed_kimi(monkeypatch)
+    encoding: Final = _available_kimi_k3(monkeypatch, tmp_path)
+    question: Final = {"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"}
+    openai_messages: Final = [
+        {"role": "system", "content": "Be terse."},
+        question,
+        {
+            "role": "assistant",
+            "content": None,
+            "tool_calls": [
+                {"id": "c1", "type": "function", "function": {"name": "get_weather", "arguments": '{"city": "Paris"}'}}
+            ],
+        },
+        {"role": "tool", "tool_call_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"},
+    ]
+
+    openai: Final = await count_request_tokens(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=openai_messages, tools=[_KIMI_WEATHER]), call_endpoint=True
+    )
+    anthropic: Final = await count_request_tokens(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(
+            model="kimi",
+            system="Be terse.",
+            messages=[
+                question,
+                {
+                    "role": "assistant",
+                    "content": [{"type": "tool_use", "id": "c1", "name": "get_weather", "input": {"city": "Paris"}}],
+                },
+                {"role": "user", "content": [{"type": "tool_result", "tool_use_id": "c1", "content": "Sun"}]},
+            ],
+            tools=[
+                {
+                    "name": "get_weather",
+                    "description": "Get the weather",
+                    "input_schema": _KIMI_WEATHER["function"]["parameters"],
+                }
+            ],
+        ),
+        call_endpoint=True,
+        messages_format="anthropic",
+    )
+    exact: Final = kimi_k3_tokens(encoding, "us.moonshotai.kimi-k3", openai_messages, [_KIMI_WEATHER])
+
+    assert exact is not None
+    assert (openai.total_tokens, openai.tokenizer_type, openai.count_source) == (
+        exact + _shipped_kimi_k3_framing(),
+        "huggingface_tokenizer",
+        "local_estimate",
+    )
+    assert (anthropic.total_tokens, anthropic.tokenizer_type) == (openai.total_tokens, "huggingface_tokenizer")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_bedrock_kimi_k3_deployment_with_a_custom_tokenizer_keeps_counting_with_it(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path
+):
+    _framed_kimi_with_custom_tokenizer(monkeypatch, "lit-tests/kimi-custom-tokenizer")
+    _available_kimi_k3(monkeypatch, tmp_path)
+    custom: Final = litellm.utils._select_tokenizer(model="gpt-5.4-mini")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.utils, "_select_tokenizer", lambda model, custom_tokenizer=None: custom)
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}]
+
+    counted: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=messages), call_endpoint=True)
+
+    assert counted.total_tokens == (
+        litellm.token_counter(model=counted.model_used, messages=messages, custom_tokenizer=custom)
+        + kimi_k3_template_tokens(len(messages), False)
+        + _shipped_kimi_k3_framing()
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("messages", "tools", "template_tokens"),
+    [
+        pytest.param([{"role": "user", "content": "What is new?"}], None, 14, id="one_message"),
+        pytest.param(
+            [
+                {"role": "system", "content": "Be terse."},
+                {"role": "user", "content": "Weather in Paris?"},
+                {"role": "assistant", "content": "Sunny."},
+                {"role": "user", "content": "And Oslo?"},
+            ],
+            [_KIMI_WEATHER],
+            14 + 3 * 13 + 40,
+            id="turns_and_tools",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+async def test_bedrock_kimi_k3_without_its_tokenizer_adds_the_template_offsets_to_the_local_estimate(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    messages: list[dict[str, object]],
+    tools: list[dict[str, object]] | None,
+    template_tokens: int,
+):
+    _framed_kimi(monkeypatch)
+
+    counted: Final = await token_counter(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=messages, tools=tools), call_endpoint=True
+    )
+    estimate: Final = litellm.token_counter(
+        model=counted.model_used,
+        messages=messages,
+        tools=tools,
+        custom_tokenizer=litellm.utils._select_tokenizer(model=counted.model_used),
+    )
+
+    assert counted.total_tokens == estimate + template_tokens + _shipped_kimi_k3_framing()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_slow_cost_map_lookup_does_not_stall_other_requests_on_the_worker(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    real_get_model_info: Final = litellm.get_model_info
+    lookup_started: Final = threading.Event()
+    other_request_ran: Final = threading.Event()
+    released_by_the_other_request: Final[list[bool]] = []
+
+    def slow_get_model_info(model: str, *args: object, **kwargs: object):
+        if model == "slow-lookup-model":
+            lookup_started.set()
+            released_by_the_other_request.append(other_request_ran.wait(5))
+        return real_get_model_info(model, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "llm_router", None)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "get_model_info", slow_get_model_info)
+    counting: Final = asyncio.create_task(
+        token_counter(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(model="slow-lookup-model", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}])
+        )
+    )
+    await asyncio.to_thread(lookup_started.wait, 5)
+    other_request_ran.set()
+    await counting
+
+    assert set(released_by_the_other_request) == {True}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_uncountable_model_keeps_the_provider_error_when_local_counting_is_disabled(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"us.moonshotai.kimi-k3": _provider_reply("kimi", status_code=400)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "kimi",
+                    "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"},
+                    "model_info": {"token_count_framing": 78},
+                }
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "disable_token_counter", True)
+
+    with pytest.raises(ProxyException) as raised:
+        await token_counter(
+            request=TokenCountRequest(model="kimi", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]), call_endpoint=True
+        )
+
+    assert raised.value.code == "400"
+    assert "scripted 400 for kimi" in raised.value.message
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("model_info", "counted_with"),
+    [
+        ({}, ("us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "us-east-1", 447)),
+        (
+            {"token_count_model": {"model": "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "ap-southeast-4"}},
+            ("us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "ap-southeast-4", 447),
+        ),
+        ({"token_count_model": {}}, ("us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5", "us-west-2", 300)),
+    ],
+)
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main")
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_configured_token_count_model_overrides_the_shipped_one_and_an_empty_one_counts_the_model_itself(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, model_info: dict[str, object], counted_with: tuple[str, str, int]
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter(
+        {
+            "us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5": _provider_reply("sonnet", total_tokens=300),
+            "us.anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", total_tokens=447),
+        }
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "sonnet",
+                    "litellm_params": {
+                        "model": "bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5",
+                        "aws_region_name": "us-west-2",
+                    },
+                    "model_info": model_info,
+                }
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+    counted: Final = await token_counter(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="sonnet", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]), call_endpoint=True
+    )
+
+    assert (counter.calls[0][0], counter.regions[0], counted.total_tokens) == counted_with
+    assert len(counter.calls) == 1
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("aws_region_name", "counted_in"),
+    [("eu-central-1", "eu-central-1"), ("us-west-2", "us-east-1")],
+)
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main")
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_shipped_token_count_model_keeps_the_prompt_in_the_deployment_geography(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, aws_region_name: str, counted_in: str
+):
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", total_tokens=447)})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "sonnet",
+                    "litellm_params": {
+                        "model": "bedrock/anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5",
+                        "aws_region_name": aws_region_name,
+                    },
+                }
+            ]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", lambda deployment, model: (counter, model, "bedrock")
+    )
+
+    await token_counter(
+        request=TokenCountRequest(model="sonnet", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]), call_endpoint=True
+    )
+
+    assert (counter.calls[0][0], counter.regions[0]) == ("anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", counted_in)
+
+
+class _SlowVault:
+    def sync_read_secret(self, secret_name: str) -> None:
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+
+
+async def _longest_stall(done: asyncio.Event) -> float:
+    if done.is_set():
+        return 0.0
+    started: Final = time.monotonic()
+    await asyncio.sleep(0.01)
+    return max(time.monotonic() - started, await _longest_stall(done))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures("bedrock_sonnet_5_5_mapped_as_on_main")
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_region_lookup_for_a_shipped_count_model_leaves_the_event_loop_free(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    from litellm.proxy import proxy_server
+
+    counter: Final = _ScriptedCounter({"anthropic.claude-opus-5-5": _provider_reply("opus", total_tokens=447)})
+
+    def bedrock_counter(deployment: object, model: str) -> tuple[_ScriptedCounter, str, str]:
+        return counter, model, "bedrock"
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        proxy_server,
+        "llm_router",
+        Router(
+            model_list=[{"model_name": "sonnet", "litellm_params": {"model": "bedrock/anthropic.claude-sonnet-5-5"}}]
+        ),
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(proxy_server, "_get_provider_token_counter", bedrock_counter)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "secret_manager_client", _SlowVault())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "_key_management_system", KeyManagementSystem.HASHICORP_VAULT)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm, "_key_management_settings", KeyManagementSettings(access_mode="read_only"))
+    done: Final = asyncio.Event()
+
+    async def count() -> TokenCountResponse:
+        try:
+            return await token_counter(
+                request=TokenCountRequest(model="sonnet", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hi"}]),
+                call_endpoint=True,
+            )
+        finally:
+            done.set()
+
+    started: Final = time.monotonic()
+    stall, response = await asyncio.gather(_longest_stall(done), count())
+
+    assert time.monotonic() - started >= 1.0
+    assert stall < 0.4
+    assert response.total_tokens == 447
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_framing_still_applies_while_the_deployment_is_cooling_down(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch):
+    router: Final = Router(
+        model_list=[
+            {
+                "model_name": "framed",
+                "litellm_params": {"model": "openai/gpt-5.4-mini", "api_key": "sk-unused-framed"},
+                "model_info": {"id": "framed-deployment", "token_count_framing": 100},
+            }
+        ]
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(litellm.proxy.proxy_server, "llm_router", router)
+    messages: Final = [{"role": "user", "content": "hello there"}]
+    warm: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="framed", messages=messages))
+
+    router.cooldown_cache.add_deployment_to_cooldown(
+        model_id="framed-deployment",
+        original_exception=Exception("rate limited"),
+        exception_status=429,
+        cooldown_time=60,
+    )
+    cooling: Final = await token_counter(request=TokenCountRequest(model="framed", messages=messages))
+
+    assert warm.total_tokens == litellm.token_counter(model="gpt-5.4-mini", messages=messages) + 100
+    assert cooling.total_tokens - 100 == litellm.token_counter(model="framed", messages=messages)
+    assert cooling.count_source == "local_estimate"
+
+
 class _GeminiPart(BaseModel):
     model_config = ConfigDict(frozen=True)
     text: str = ""
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_router_model_cost_isolation.py b/tests/unit/test_router_model_cost_isolation.py
index d73f5efa96b..6a6e4c5b4d4 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_router_model_cost_isolation.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_router_model_cost_isolation.py
@@ -513,6 +513,40 @@ def test_should_not_pollute_shared_key_with_custom_nonzero_pricing():
     )
 
 
+def test_token_count_settings_stay_on_the_deployment_that_set_them() -> None:
+    """A deployment's ``token_count_model`` and ``token_count_framing`` must not land on
+    the shared ``{provider}/{model}`` key, or a sibling deployment of that model would count with them."""
+    from litellm.proxy.common_utils.token_count_settings import cost_map_entry
+
+    backend_model: Final = "bedrock/us.moonshotai.kimi-k3"
+    deploy_id: Final = "kimi-deploy-keep-token-count"
+    configured: Final = {
+        "token_count_model": {"model": "anthropic.claude-opus-5-5", "region": "us-west-2"},
+        "token_count_framing": 7,
+    }
+    builtin: Final = {field: cost_map_entry(backend_model).get(field) for field in configured}
+    assert all(builtin[field] != value for field, value in configured.items()), builtin
+    model_keys: Final = {
+        key: copy.deepcopy(litellm.model_cost.get(key))
+        for key in (deploy_id, backend_model, backend_model.removeprefix("bedrock/"))
+    }
+    try:
+        Router(
+            model_list=[
+                {
+                    "model_name": "kimi-keep-token-count",
+                    "litellm_params": {"model": backend_model},
+                    "model_info": {"id": deploy_id, **configured},
+                }
+            ],
+        )
+
+        assert {field: litellm.model_cost[deploy_id][field] for field in configured} == configured
+        assert {field: cost_map_entry(backend_model).get(field) for field in configured} == builtin
+    finally:
+        _restore_model_cost_entries(model_keys)
+
+
 def test_should_store_full_pricing_under_deployment_model_id():
     """
     Per-deployment pricing (including zero) should be stored and
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_utils.py b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
index a934f57f3d3..e80ca2a5820 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_utils.py
@@ -936,6 +936,13 @@ def test_aaamodel_prices_and_context_window_json_is_valid():
                 "supports_video_input": {"type": "boolean"},
                 "supports_vision": {"type": "boolean"},
                 "supports_web_search": {"type": "boolean"},
+                "token_count_framing": {"type": "integer"},
+                "token_count_model": {
+                    "type": "object",
+                    "properties": {"model": {"type": "string"}, "region": {"type": "string"}},
+                    "required": ["model"],
+                },
+                "token_count_tokenizer": {"type": "string", "enum": ["kimi_k3"]},
                 "supports_url_context": {"type": "boolean"},
                 "supports_multimodal": {"type": "boolean"},
                 "uses_embed_content": {"type": "boolean"},
diff --git a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
index 16eaa1e3630..42c306cc3b3 100644
--- a/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
+++ b/ui/litellm-dashboard/src/lib/http/schema.d.ts
@@ -43384,9 +43384,17 @@ export interface components {
          * @description Response structure for token count details with modality breakdown.
          *
          *     Example:
-         *         {'totalTokens': 12, 'promptTokensDetails': [{'modality': 'TEXT', 'tokenCount': 12}]}
+         *         {'totalTokens': 12, 'promptTokensDetails': [{'modality': 'TEXT', 'tokenCount': 12}],
+         *          'litellm_count_source': 'provider'}
          */
         TokenCountDetailsResponse: {
+            /** Litellm Count Model */
+            litellm_count_model?: string;
+            /**
+             * Litellm Count Source
+             * @enum {string}
+             */
+            litellm_count_source?: "provider" | "token_count_model" | "local_estimate";
             /** Prompttokensdetails */
             promptTokensDetails: components["schemas"]["PromptTokensDetails"][];
             /** Totaltokens */
@@ -43415,6 +43423,8 @@ export interface components {
         };
         /** TokenCountResponse */
         TokenCountResponse: {
+            /** Count Source */
+            count_source?: ("provider" | "token_count_model" | "local_estimate") | null;
             /**
              * Error
              * @default false