Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI spend in real-time)

liorwn

I built this after noticing a $65 charge for what felt like a $10 session. Turns out, context compaction was hiding 80% of my token usage. Real cost, no visibility. claudetop is a status line for Claude Code that shows your burn rate, cache efficiency, model cost comparison, and smart alerts (like "TRY /fast" when Opus is overkill for the task). Plugin system for extensibility — Spotify, CI status, calendar, etc. Single bash script, zero dependencies beyond jq. One-command install.

sgarland

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/liorwn/claudetop/main/install.sh | bash Installing claudetop... cp: /Users/sgarland/claudetop.sh: No such file or directory You need to have it handle being piped; right now it expects to find itself at $PWD. It also makes several other assumptions, like the location of Claude, and that the user wants stats being `/usr/local/bin`.

brcmthrowaway

Have you tried a local model?

amelius

Anthropic should work on their billing. It's crazy. I did my best to not get billed more than I consciously pay into my account, auto reload is off and never was on, but still now the meter shows an unpaid balance. This is nuts. One customer is angry and disappointed. This is totally unnecessary. And why do I need to create a new API key whenever I run out of balance?

brikym

Nice idea. A sounds plugin would be great. Imagine if you could gauge the spend just by a geiger counter, or the tempo of a song. Any chance of opencode support?

beepbooptheory

Something kinda disturbing seeing a USD cost like that in a cute top-like TUI. It's like numbers I expect to see as rather variable and sometimes ballooning, except it's attached to my credit card. Like just reflexively terrifying I guess.