
I built a macOS menu bar app to track AI token usage across 20+ providers
If you're like most developers right now, you're probably juggling 3-5 paid AI services. Claude for deep reasoning. GPT for quick lookups. Cursor or Copilot for inline code gen. Maybe Whisper for transcriptions. Each one has its own rate limits, billing cycles, and usage caps. And most of us have exactly zero visibility into how much we're actually consuming across all of them. The problem I kept running into I kept hitting rate limits at the worst times. Mid-flow, deep in a refactor, and suddenly Claude tells me I'm done for the next few hours. Or I'd get a surprise bill from OpenAI because I had no idea how much I was burning through their API. The dashboards exist, sure. But they're scattered across 5+ different websites, each with their own login, their own UI, their own way of showing usage. Nobody checks those proactively. You only find out you're running low when it's already too late. What I built I built TokenBar - a macOS menu bar utility that sits quietly in your menu bar an
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