token-burningman

Token-burningman is a helpful tool for anyone using Claude Code who wants to keep track of their token usage. It lets you see how many tokens you use for each session, project, and model. This helps you understand your costs and see how your usage changes over time, all without sending your data over the internet.

Benefits

Token-burningman offers several advantages. It provides detailed breakdowns of your token counts and associated costs. You can view this information through an easy-to-use text-based dashboard with different sections for an overview, projects, sessions, and trends. It also has a feature that shows your real-time token and cost usage right in the Claude Code status bar, which you can adjust to show as much or as little detail as you like.

Use Cases

This tool is useful for individual developers or teams working on projects with Claude Code. You can use it to monitor your spending on AI models, identify which projects or sessions are using the most tokens, and analyze your usage patterns. The data can be exported in formats like JSON or CSV for further analysis or record-keeping. If you choose, you can also share anonymized usage data to help improve the tool for everyone.

Vibes

Users appreciate that Token-burningman keeps all data local, ensuring privacy. The ability to see real-time costs and usage directly in the editor is also a frequently praised feature, helping users stay within their budgets.

Additional Information

Token-burningman is built with privacy in mind, storing all data locally with secure permissions. While it offers an opt-in community reporting feature for anonymized data, this is entirely optional and designed to protect user privacy. The tool is available under a license that allows free use and modification.