AI spend, tokens and rate limits across 11 providers, in one private Mac menu bar app.
Claude Code · Claude · Codex · Cursor · GitHub Copilot · OpenAI · Anthropic API · Grok · DeepSeek · Mistral · OpenRouter
Note
Tokens 4 Breakfast is a commercial, closed-source macOS app. This repository hosts the public docs and the issue tracker, not the source code. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome in Issues.
If you build with AI, your spend and your limits are spread across a handful of tools, and you usually find out about either one too late:
- The bill. Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot and a few API keys each bill separately, and nothing adds them up until the invoices arrive.
- The limit. You hit a Claude or Codex window halfway through an agent run, with no warning.
Tokens 4 Breakfast keeps both numbers in your menu bar while you work: what your usage is worth, what your subscriptions cost, and how much of each limit you have left.
Limits. Every window with its reset time, a pace marker and a forecast. |
Insights. Tokens and their API-equivalent value at a glance. 
Plans. Whether your subscriptions pay for themselves. |
Screenshots are rendered from the app with sample data, not a real account.
- Live numbers in the menu bar. Show a provider's cost, all-provider spend, a subscription total, a Claude 5-hour or weekly cap, or Codex and Grok usage, with up to two extra compact metrics beside it.
- Know your pace. Every 5-hour and weekly meter marks where an even pace would be, with one word beside it: burning fast, on pace or room to spare. 90% used with an hour to go reads very differently from 90% with two days left.
- Limits before you hit them. Claude 5-hour, weekly and per-model limits, Codex limits and the Grok weekly limit, each with a reset time and a burn-rate forecast. Claude limits alert you as you approach the cap, and a weekly cap pinned in the menu bar alerts at 80%, 95% and 100%.
- Usage in real money. Claude Code and Codex usage is valued at each model's published API rate, including cache reads, cache writes and Claude fast mode, so a flat subscription still shows what the same tokens would have cost. Models without a public rate are marked unpriced, never guessed.
- Codex credits, watched. The Codex section shows your credit balance the way Codex counts it, and tells you once when you reach your plan limit and further work starts drawing on credits.
- Subscription tracking. Add Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, Mistral and other plans, and see them next to your usage-based spend.
- Focus Mode. Set a dollar budget for a work session and get warned at 80% and 100%.
- Your currency. Show spend in EUR, GBP and more, at a conversion rate you set.
- Privacy Audit Log. Every outbound request the app makes is logged in Settings, with host, reason and time.
A full dashboard for heavy users: Limit Runway (when you will hit each cap at your current pace), Efficiency (where a cheaper model would do the job) and Plan Value (whether your plans pay for themselves), plus breakdowns by provider, model, project and session.
New in 2.0.17: what 1% of your limit buys. How much work each 1% of your weekly Claude or Codex limit covers, compared with last week, so you can see when a limit tightens.
Pro also adds per-provider daily and weekly budgets with alerts, CSV export, a weekly summary and the shareable Token Card.
Providers. Local sources connect without a key. |
Display. Choose exactly what the menu bar shows. |
11 providers connect. 8 of them report real spend; Claude Web and Grok report live rate limits only, and DeepSeek reports an account balance, so the app shows no dollar figure for those three.
| Provider | What it reports | How it connects |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Spend (API-equivalent), projects, models, sessions | Local session files. No key. |
| Claude Web | Claude 5-hour, weekly and per-model limits | Your claude.ai session, via a guided connect in Settings |
| Cursor | Spend, projects, models, sessions | Local Cursor data. No key. |
| Codex | Spend, plan limits and credits | Local Codex CLI sessions. No key. |
| GitHub Copilot | Subscription value and monthly quota (AI credits or premium requests, as GitHub reports it) | Your local Copilot CLI login. No key. |
| Grok | SuperGrok weekly limit | Your local Grok CLI login. No key. |
| Anthropic API | Organization API spend | Anthropic Admin API key (organizations only) |
| OpenAI | Organization API spend | OpenAI organization Admin API key |
| Mistral | Organization API spend | Mistral Enterprise Admin API key |
| OpenRouter | Spend, model mix, remaining credits | OpenRouter API key |
| DeepSeek | Account balance | DeepSeek API key |
| Gemini | Coming soon | Not collecting yet |
OpenAI, Anthropic API and Mistral need an organization admin key; a personal key cannot read their usage endpoints. Keys are stored in the macOS Keychain and sent only to that provider's API.
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, no time limit | $14.99 one-time, no subscription |
| Providers | 1 of your choice | All 11 |
| History | Today and 7 days | 30 days |
| Menu bar spend and limits, pace marker | ✓ | ✓ |
| Focus Mode session budgets | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI subscription tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Privacy Audit Log | ✓ | ✓ |
| Usage Intelligence and Value per 1% | ✓ | |
| Per-provider daily and weekly budgets | ✓ | |
| CSV export and weekly summary | ✓ | |
| Sessions tab with cost breakdown | ✓ | |
| Token Card | ✓ | |
| Priority email support | ✓ |
Pro includes future updates. It is licensed per Mac and comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. If you bought Pro at the $7.99 launch price, you keep everything, including future updates.
- Local storage. Usage lives in a SQLite database on your Mac. There is no Tokens 4 Breakfast account and no cloud backend.
- No prompts, ever. The app keeps usage metadata only (token counts, model, timestamp, cost). Your prompts and responses are never stored or sent anywhere.
- No telemetry. The only network calls go to the providers you connect, a license check when you activate Pro, and the update check. Each one appears in the Privacy Audit Log.
- Credentials in the Keychain. API keys and sessions are stored in the macOS Keychain and sent only to the matching provider.
- Signed and notarized by Apple, with the hardened runtime. Built in Germany.
See SECURITY.md for how to report a vulnerability.
- Download the latest release.
- Open the .zip and drag Tokens 4 Breakfast to
/Applications. - Launch it, click the menu bar icon, and connect a provider in Settings.
Updating: built-in auto-update (Sparkle). The app tells you when a new version is ready to install.
Uninstalling: quit the app and move it to the Trash. Your data is in ~/Library/Application Support/Tokens4Breakfast; saved keys are in your login Keychain under com.onekapisch.tokensforbreakfast.
Requirements: macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
| Version | Highlights |
|---|---|
| 2.0.17 · 4 Oct 2026 | Pace marker on every 5-hour and weekly limit, Codex credits watch, value per 1% of your limit (Pro), and Claude Opus 5.5 / Sonnet 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol priced |
| 2.0.16 · 19 Sep 2026 | GPT-6 and Claude Fable 5.1 priced; every model rate re-checked against the providers' official pricing pages |
| 2.0.15 · 18 Sep 2026 | Extra metrics in the menu bar, weekly-limit alerts at 80/95/100%, and a selectable period for the popover's headline figure |
| 2.0.14 | Focus sessions back in the popover, a burn-rate forecast per limit, and early-reset tracking |
| 2.0.10 | Anthropic API organization spend |
| 2.0.9 | Spend in your own currency, the standalone Copilot CLI, and Codex per-model limits |
| 2.0.6 | Grok / SuperGrok weekly limit |
Full notes for each version appear in the app's What's New sheet.
ccusage is a command-line tool for local agent usage and costs; Tokens 4 Breakfast puts that kind of visibility in a native menu bar app and adds subscriptions, budgets and more providers. CodexBar is a free, open-source menu bar tracker for coding-provider limits; Tokens 4 Breakfast also tracks spend, subscriptions and budgets around those limits. More side-by-side pages: tokens4breakfast.app/alternatives.
Is it open source?
No, it is a commercial app. This repo holds the docs and the issue tracker.
Does it read my prompts?
No. It keeps token counts, model names, timestamps and cost, never conversation content.
Does it send my data anywhere?
No telemetry. It only calls the providers you connect, plus the Pro license check and the update check.
Why is there no dollar figure for Claude Web, Grok or DeepSeek?
Those providers report limits or a balance, not spend, and the app does not invent one.
What about Gemini?
Google does not currently expose the account usage data the app needs, so Gemini stays disabled until it does.
Can I use Pro on more than one Mac?
Pro is licensed per Mac. The free plan has no device limit.
More answers in the full FAQ.
The roadmap follows what users ask for. Want a provider or a feature? Open an issue. Many recent features, including the pace marker and the multi-metric menu bar, started as requests.
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