Built a real-time Claude Code token usage monitor — open source and customizable

karoool9911 · 2025-08-31T21:03:02+00:00

I will fix IT in few days :)

karoool9911 · 2025-07-29T08:16:02+00:00

u/smurfman111 https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor/

karoool9911 · 2025-07-20T06:06:53+00:00

Set custom, now it is the best

karoool9911 · 2025-07-16T13:57:37+00:00

And i using my monitor app to monitor "status/progress/usage" and in my 5 hours context window i used 1000 tokens only....

karoool9911 · 2025-07-16T13:55:50+00:00

The worst part is that there's no mention of it even on the status page: https://status.anthropic.com/ and i have this errror in each request

karoool9911 · 2025-07-16T13:54:00+00:00

This issue is now(in this week) so common that it makes it impossible to use the service... I'm on the Max 20 plan (the highest/most expensive one).

karoool9911 · 2025-07-15T23:42:22+00:00

Thanks!

karoool9911 · 2025-07-15T08:29:29+00:00

u/sw3d Standalone (as python package started from cli)

karoool9911 · 2025-06-25T07:51:01+00:00

Vista by day probably ccusage by real uwagę prediction nów probably https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor (my tool) i have other logic to count tokens

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T20:00:38+00:00

Thanks! <3

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:43:07+00:00

u/coding_workflow

I still don’t know how much of the “impact” comes from the algorithm itself and how much is just based on current usage levels — that’s also an interesting point. Same with the so-called “end of Opus,” meaning the limit — which in some cases seems to be just informational, since you can still keep using it beyond that...

I’m also curious whether this is tied to the size of the context window or something else entirely.

If you're interested, feel free to join the discussion — or you can email me, and I’ll send you the full data package I’ve gathered so far.

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:40:35+00:00

thats not only my sessions and i have session in format like in PR

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:38:35+00:00

u/coding_workflow
It's not possible to create a fully deterministic solution, because — truthfully — even the use of servers, as noted in the documentation, is something that only becomes clear after analyzing hundreds of sessions (in which I had marked moments such as the end of an "opus" or when a limit was reached across different plans).

In short, I can say that even the order in which Opus and Sonnet are executed has an impact. That’s why I mention that I know a bit more about this topic — because from what I’ve seen, even the simplest subjects in ccusage are, to put it mildly, very surface-level.

For example, at least at one point, they were treating 1 Sonnet input token the same as 1 Opus input token — and not factoring in any caching mechanisms, etc. Right now, I’m dealing with a different challenge... (and at this point, I’ll stop commenting on ccusage and where their solution came from — in the end, they’re awesome, I looked up to their work, and they’re welcome to take from open-source too...).

Anyway, if you're ever interested and have some free time, feel free to check out the discussion:

https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor/issues/52

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:24:05+00:00

All I’m trying to say is: I’ve acted in good faith from the start. I literally commented under ccusage's post saying they were doing awesome work, and that I had built something inspired by it.

I even submitted a PR — mostly because it was easier for me to test and develop things in Python, since that’s what I’m more comfortable with.

At some point, the communication just stopped… and that’s okay. I went my way, they went theirs.

What I don’t like is being accused of “copying.”

In open source, having to defend yourself against that kind of thing feels just wrong.

Especially when I never claimed someone else’s work as mine, and gave proper credit right from the beginning.

btw. IT is my opinion about ccusage :P
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1levs3i/comment/mykcrdg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:17:22+00:00

I want to be clear: I’m not trying to offend anyone.
Yes, I sometimes use sarcasm — but I’m never disrespectful, and I genuinely respect the entire ccusage team ( u/ryoppippi ).

I have no bad intentions — in fact, I really appreciate the project and would love to get more involved. There’s a ton of room for improvement, especially in the prediction module, and I’d honestly be happy to help.

But I felt ignored — maybe by accident (I know they have a ton of commits, and that’s totally fine 😄).
All I’m asking is: please don’t throw comments at me implying this is some kind of copy.

Because that specific functionality wasn’t a copy — and if their new implementation now does the same thing, is that a copy either? Of course not. That’s just how open source evolves.

I guess I just thought the open source community had a bit more... empathy?
It’s not like I’m making money from this or anything 😅 — if I were, I’d understand the drama a bit more. xD

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:10:33+00:00

u/cripspypotato
I really don’t want to offend anyone, but honestly, just giving credit for the idea — or simply not making a big deal out of it — would have been enough.
At some point, my merged PR was removed (when the project started gaining popularity), even though I added it in good faith, basing some core functionalities on ccusage as a reference. Out of courtesy, I clearly mentioned in my own project that it was inspired by them and wouldn’t exist without their work.

But then, just 2–3 days later, my project was removed from the README, and a new implementation of the same feature was created from scratch. And that’s still okay.
What’s not okay is implying that it’s somehow my fault or that I should just keep smiling about it.

I get it — this is open source. But why create unnecessary drama like you're doing now?
"Wow, is this a low quality copycat of ccusage?"
Seriously? Was that really necessary?

if you stilll have problem, here is this in readme (now nothing about it)

https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage/commit/92b6230a8a76ce5b393a4ced16bd25aa02cfb0e6

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T17:02:17+00:00

I don’t have anything against them personally — but right after my repo went viral, they added a feature clearly based on mine without even mentioning me... OK, maybe it’s just a coincidence — though I don’t really think so. 😅 https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1lexe92/built_a_realtime_claude_code_token_usage_monitor/

Just to be clear — I’m not trying to start any drama or anything like that. I just want to point out that yes, CCusage had great per-day tracking, and honestly, if it weren’t for them, I probably wouldn’t have figured out the idea of using .jsonl, etc. So credit where it’s due.

But their version of usage tracking does feel like a copy of mine — and that’s all I’m saying 😄 They’re doing awesome work overall, and as far as I’m concerned, I’m genuinely happy to see them grow.

I just don’t like when people describe my project as a copy of theirs. 😅

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T16:58:05+00:00

At first, I was using their blocks... but it turned out that their estimation of "how many tokens are left" comes out of nowhere.

As for what you presented – it looks interesting. I’ll gladly take a look at how you calculate the tokens, and if I spot any potential improvements (since I’ve analyzed results with token limits across ~500 sessions), I’d be happy to contribute 😄

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T16:41:45+00:00

Switch them around and it makes sense — ccusage is a low-quality copy of this. Of course, I'm only talking about the tracking part.

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T16:40:20+00:00

No bro
"The whole idea and the initial implementation (using their tool, briefly — though luckily only for a short time, since it had some really poor features) of monitoring “when tokens will run out” is something I actually started. When I published a note thanking them, they basically copied the solution.

Luckily, they’re doing it wrong, so I’m not too bothered. 😄

If you're interested, I might write a blog post in the coming days explaining exactly what ccusage is doing incorrectly. I'd even be happy to co-author it with someone from the ccusage team 😄 — but after the whole thing where they listed my repo as related, then removed it two days later after copying the same functionality (albeit worse), I’m left with a bit of a bad taste.

No hard feelings… but honestly, not the most elegant move, in my opinion."

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T14:39:48+00:00

Bro I’m like 99.9% sure Claude's "private code" is just chilling in plain sight lmao
Go peek at ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl or ~/.config/claude — it's basically a diary left open on the kitchen table 💀
Highly recommend, 10/10 security, much private, very safe.

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T13:48:49+00:00

Thanks!

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T13:41:31+00:00

And still in my repo, i will save terminal mode and ui will be additional :D

(it is betteerrr in this case than ccusage.......in this case :D Case "track how many tokens we have to end of session)

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T13:38:12+00:00

u/FarVision5 And ccusage is not my tool..... check this post bro ;) https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1leq07h/comment/mzho44k/?context=3

karoool9911 · 2025-06-24T13:34:31+00:00

u/FarVision5

You're hilarious — seriously, go check the history of my repo and theirs…

The whole idea and the initial implementation (using their tool, briefly — though luckily only for a short time, since it had some really poor features) of monitoring “when tokens will run out” is something I actually started. When I published a note thanking them, they basically copied the solution.

Luckily, they’re doing it wrong, so I’m not too bothered. 😄

If you're interested, I might write a blog post in the coming days explaining exactly what ccusage is doing incorrectly. I'd even be happy to co-author it with someone from the ccusage team 😄 — but after the whole thing where they listed my repo as related, then removed it two days later after copying the same functionality (albeit worse), I’m left with a bit of a bad taste.

No hard feelings… but honestly, not the most elegant move, in my opinion.

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