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Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by cchance »

WXLCKNO wrote: post #103
joshmlewis wrote: post #90

For a reference point, it says my max session limit in the past was ~337,492 tokens and I have the Max20 plan and 99% use Opus. My total tokens used since I started using Claude Code on May 27th was 1,374,439,311 worth around $3397.34.

I'm around ~2100 dollars equivalent on Max20 plan. Do they have huge margins on API or are they just losing money? I use it everyday but I don't feel like I'm abusing it or anything

Huge margins on API lol, there's a reason the guys from deepseek told everyone that its bullshit that the big boys aren't making money, research is expensive but the inference isn't especially with the comments that even Sam Altman mentioned regarding pricing per response for the chat clients.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by cchance »

blitzar wrote: post #108
ffsm8 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has to be wrong. I'm on that subscription as I wanted to reinforce my opinion that it's still shit for devs that actually have experience, like it was a few months ago. While my plan didn't pan out, cuz it was way too effective, I can confidently say that I'm going through 3-6k tokens per prompt on average, and usually get around 3 hours of usage before I'm hitting the rate limit. The limit is probably closer to 300k…

Claude Code is chugging away on a step (6/10) for me right now: Transforming… (212s · 26.1k tokens · esc to interrupt) I reset just under 2 hours ago, probably been going at this pace for the last hour or so.

7k is literally nothing, even for a trial 7k of token is basically 1-2 files written that doesn't seem right if it is then i dont see why anyone would pay for that and not the 250 prompts/month from augment or one of the others

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by gpm »

tln wrote: post #105
gpm wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By any chance do you remember the source for that? Googling "1000 tokens emits 8.3g CO2" only gets me this thread.

The search was "ai tokens per tonne co2" and the "1000 tokens emits 8.3g CO2" bit was my paraphrasing from the AI overview. This article [0] mentions "8.3g CO2" but it's linked source [1] uses a different number - 4.32g. Perhaps revised after publication. I ran the search again and got different numbers... I'm sure the real numbers will be changing quite a bit over time too. [0] https://ditchcarbon.com/blog/llm-carbo…

Oh, I thought you meant "Google, the company, published this number" (which I would have been very interested to read), not "Google, the search engine/sketchy llm, returned this result".

Fair enough.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by radicality »

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.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by radicality »

youcefb wrote: post #100
loufe wrote: post #54

I really like this idea as I find Claude's transparency frustrating. Claude code's killer features revolve around better tools to manage context and limits vs the desktop app (compact and the % remaining until auto compact), but it's not enough. If I can offer any advice, it's that the high use of emojis in a project readme (at least for me) looks so unprofessional and makes me worry that a project was vibe -coded in…

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

Yeah I noticed that too, it’s a bit crazy to me that stuff like this is getting upvotes and traction. It feels like it was vibe-coded in one-shot style without perhaps even reading any bit of the code. A bunch of hardcoded values, a `sleep(3)`, bunch of other antipatterns.

Up until recently I tended to “trust” github repos a bit more, now I feel like I need to have my guard up so I don’t fall into a trap of using something like this. Funnily enough a good first metric for me now is # of emojis in the readme - the more emojis the more likely you should stay away from it

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by throwaway314155 »

cchance wrote: post #112
blitzar wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claude Code is chugging away on a step (6/10) for me right now: Transforming… (212s · 26.1k tokens · esc to interrupt) I reset just under 2 hours ago, probably been going at this pace for the last hour or so.

7k is literally nothing, even for a trial 7k of token is basically 1-2 files written that doesn't seem right if it is then i dont see why anyone would pay for that and not the 250 prompts/month from augment or one of the others

I hadn't even heard of augment, but Claude Code's UX is _mostly_ very nice (despite the problematic UX this particular project attempts to solve). So perhaps Claude Code has a better UI/UX?

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by throwaway314155 »

_august wrote: post #102

Incredible, thank you for making this! Can this be installed with uv? https://github.com/astral-sh/uv Edit: # Install uv curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh # Install the required CLI tool (Node.js) npm install -g ccusage # Clone and setup git clone https://github.com/Maciek-roboblog/Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor.git cd Claude-Code-Usage-Monitor # Install Python deps with uv uv add pytz chmod +x ccusage_monit…

This is appreciated but FWIW basically anything that can be installed with pip is also trivial (easier, even) to install with uv.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by throwaway314155 »

tiku wrote: post #109

Had a very weird experience with Claude Code yesterday. Tried to convert a simple phtml table page with very old php into a new div layout. It didn't work and burned through 4 dollars. Perhaps a WSL issue but I hope that doesn't happen more.

Claude Code has something of a steep learning curve. Sessions should involve a fairly lengthy back and forth discussing requirements and encouraging the model to ask clarifying questions.

Even then, this can happen from time to time. It's important to remember that you're using an extremely expensive tool which, despite what YouTubers and bloggers say, isn't magic.

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by banana_giraffe »

joshmlewis wrote: post #104
WXLCKNO wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm around ~2100 dollars equivalent on Max20 plan. Do they have huge margins on API or are they just losing money? I use it everyday but I don't feel like I'm abusing it or anything

I've been wondering this too. They said on a podcast that the average usage is around $6 a day in credits but I really question that. If that's the case though and they do have a lot of Pro and higher tier subscribers that might be making up the difference.

Interesting, do you recall which podcast this was on?

Re: Show HN: Claude Code Usage Monitor – real-time tracker to dodge usage cut-offs

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #75
taosx wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really dislike when people don't see this. They try to cut 10 grams of CO2 per day while other industries (shipping, aviation, rails) produce hundreds of tons per day and even this transportation modes are less that 20% with most CO2 produced mainly being in energy production and used by industry.

I think it’s because this line of rationality, leads to people to realize how ridiculous some of the conservation efforts are. Plastic bags, paper straws (wrapped in plastic), most realities of recycling, vehicle selections, etc. Leads to a lot of unpopular things.

Plastic bags and papers straws is not about CO2 emissions and I wish people would stop repeating this like it's some "gotcha", it's about landfill and natural area pollution and damage to wildlife and natural areas, and that's how it's always been talked about by policy people who have advocated on this stuff.

Have you walked a beach in the last decade?

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