Built this after getting surprised by Claude and Cursor usage
I kept running into the same problem while coding with Claude and Cursor: I could feel usage climbing, but I had no clean way to see the pace in real time until after the damage was done.
So I built TokenBar, a small macOS menu bar app that shows live token usage, cost pace, reset windows, and account limits across tools like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini.
The useful part for me has not just been the raw count. It is catching when a session is clearly off the rails early enough to change behavior before it turns into an ugly invoice.
I priced it at $5 lifetime because I wanted it to be an easy utility, not another subscription.
Curious how other people here are monitoring usage today. Are you just checking provider dashboards after the fact, or do you have a better workflow?
Site: tokenbar.site
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Checking the bill after a long coding session usually feels like opening a horror novel you didn't mean to write! Most of us are just flying blind, so having a "speedometer" in the menu bar is a brilliant way to catch those wallet-draining loops before they get ugly. A $5 one-time fee is a total breath of fresh air in this world of endless subscriptions, too.
Do you find yourself aggressively refactoring prompts now that the cost is staring you in the face?