abtop vs ai-token-monitor
htop for AI coding agents: every Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode session in one TUI — tokens, context-window %, rate limits, child processes, orphan ports. Read-only, no API keys. Rust. — versus — Menu-bar/tray app for macOS and Windows that reads Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode session logs and shows live token spend — per-model pricing with cache reads, plan-limit bars, webhook alerts.
Same watch-your-agents job, different surface: ai-token-monitor is a menu-bar app focused on token spend and plan limits; abtop is a terminal TUI adding context-window bars, child processes and port detection per live session.
| abtop | ai-token-monitor | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3.4k | 288 |
| Forks | 302 | 47 |
| Language | Rust | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | — |
| Last activity | 16 days ago | 5 days ago |
| Topics | coding | coding |
| Curated connections | 2 | 5 |
abtop — the curator's take
The moment you run 3+ agents in parallel this earns its place: live per-session context-window bars, real-time rate-limit quota, and the sleeper feature — orphan port detection for the dev server an agent forgot to kill. Read-only from local process/file state, cross-platform, Enter jumps to the agent's terminal (tmux/cmux aware). NOT an analytics tool: it's a live dashboard, not history — for cost breakdowns, replays and budgets over time you want a session-log analyzer, not a top. OpenCode monitoring needs the sqlite3 CLI installed.
ai-token-monitor — the curator's take
Zero-setup observability for the coding-agent bill: no API keys, no proxy — it prices the session logs your CLIs already write (cache reads included) and puts today's spend next to the clock, with live 5-hour-session and weekly plan bars that ping Discord/Slack/Telegram before you hit the wall. Offline by default; the leaderboard and chat are strictly opt-in. NOT enforcement or routing — it measures, it doesn't reduce; pair it with a gateway or harness caching fixes when the number scares you. macOS/Windows only, and note the repo currently ships no license file.