ccusage

> I use frontier models via API pre-paid tokens every single day, and I can barely rack up $100 per month. According to ccusage (https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage) if I didn’t have the 100 USD Max subscription, I’d have to pay Anthropic around 4173 USD for the month of May. Input │ Output │ Cache Create │ Cache Read │ Total Tokens │ Cost (USD) 1,948,016 │ 19,435,081 │ 103,626,350 │ 6,244,194,278 │ 6,369,203,725 │ $4173.09 Edit: pulled the latest numbers, not using Fast mode at all, but still Opus for most tasks. Nothing too egregious with my usage patterns, typically Claude Code just churning tasks in 1-2 projects at a time, sometimes while I’m asleep - and I hit around 60-80% of the weekly caps most of the time.

On the subject of metrics, better user-facing metrics to understand and debug usage patterns would be a great addition. I'd love an easier way to understand the ave cost incurred by a specific skill, for example. (If I'm missing something obvious, let me know.) Baking deeper analytics into CC would be helpful... similar to ccusage perhaps: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage I'm at $6.2k over the last 30 days from my $200 codex subscription

What is the difference between ccusage(https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage)?

If you use Claude Code with a subscription and run `ccusage` [0] you can get an idea of your "true usage" and cost. [0] https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

Check out ccusage, it sounds like the tool you’re describing: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

Interesting, how does this compare against https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage ?

I had to look that up: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage npx ccusage@latest Outputs a table of your token usage over the last few days, which it reads from the jsonl files that Claude Code leaves tucked away in the ~/.claude/ directory.

You may be interested in https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage

Uhm, does this do anything else useful besides shelling out to https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage ? Idk, this kind of stuff feels a bit disappointing, also feels like it’s perhaps one-shotted with some AI tool, and in this show hn you don’t even mention that all the actual work is done by some other tool.

if you actually look at the code, it's a single 400 line python file that just wraps https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage, so it's possible

You use it "all day every day", so it makes sense that you would prefer the plan. It's perfectly economical to use it without a plan, if your usage patterns are different. Here's a tool someone else wrote that can help you decide: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage