ai-token-monitor alternatives
Curated alternatives to ai-token-monitor — and why you'd switch.
claude-code-karma
Local-first dashboard over ~/.claude — sessions, timelines, per-session costs, tool/agent/skill/plugin analytics, live activity via hooks, and ticket linking. No cloud, no telemetry.
Why switchBoth read the session logs your coding CLI already writes, at opposite depths: ai-token-monitor is the glanceable menu-bar spend counter with plan-limit alerts; Karma is the full forensic dashboard — timelines, subagents, tools, tickets.
Full comparison →cc-lens
npx cc-lens: local analytics dashboard over ~/.claude — sessions with replay, cost and cache breakdowns, insights and budgets, team-adoption mode, a yearly Wrapped card. No cloud, no telemetry.
Why switchBoth read local session logs to answer 'what is Claude Code costing me' — ai-token-monitor as a glanceable menu-bar counter with plan-limit alerts, cc-lens as a full browser dashboard with history, insights and budgets.
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