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Claude usage tracker alternativesWhich tracker fits you?

There are dozens of ways to watch your Claude limits, and several are good. The right one depends on where you already look: the Claude settings page, your terminal, your menu bar or your browser. Here’s an honest rundown, including when to pick something other than Clausage.

Checked October 7, 2026 · We make Clausage, so weigh our view accordingly

At a glance

All freeOrdered by where you’d look
OptionWhat it isPick it if
claude.ai Settings → UsageAnthropic’s own page: session and weekly bars, reset times, usage credits.You check now and then and don’t want to install anything.
Claude Code /usageBuilt into Claude Code: plan usage plus a breakdown of what counts against it (skills, subagents, MCP servers, long context, cache misses).You live in Claude Code and want answers inside the terminal.
claude-hudA Claude Code status line plugin showing usage and reset under the input.You want it in Claude Code’s status line, with no new window.
ccusageA CLI that reports tokens and cost from Claude Code’s local logs. Runs with npx.You want token and cost reports, not plan limits.
CodexBarA Mac menu bar app covering many providers: Codex, Claude, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and more.You use several AI coding tools and want them in one place.
Claude Usage TrackerA Mac menu bar app with multiple profiles, pace markers, history charts and Codex support.You want lots of settings and several accounts.
Usage4ClaudeA Mac menu bar app with a pace chart and threshold and reset notifications.You like seeing pace as a chart.
Claude Usage Tracker extensionA Chrome and Firefox extension that estimates usage per chat on claude.ai.You use Claude in the browser, on any computer.
ClausageA Mac menu bar app for any Claude plan: one bar per limit with a pace tick, a clock time for when you’ll run out, quiet until 85%, desktop widgets, an optional Claude Code breakdown, no analytics. Open source.You want to glance, not check, and you use Claude for more than code.

Do you need a tracker at all?

Maybe not. Settings → Usage on claude.ai shows every limit and when it resets, and it’s free and always right. If you hit a limit once a month, that page is enough.

A tracker earns its place when you hit limits often, or start big tasks without knowing whether there’s room. The value is seeing it without going to look.

If you live in the terminal

Start with what’s built in: Claude Code’s /usage shows your plan usage and what’s driving it. claude-hud puts usage in the status line, so it’s always under your cursor. ccusage is the long-standing choice for token and cost reports. All three stay inside Claude Code, which is the point if that’s where you work.

Where Clausage fits

  • Quiet by default. Under 85% it’s just a bar. Past that it gives a clock time, like Out ~Mon 9:40 PM, instead of a percentage to work out.
  • Pace on every bar. A tick shows where an even pace would put you now, so “am I OK for the week?” is one glance. (How pace works)
  • Any Claude plan, Claude Code optional. It reads the same usage page you’d check yourself, so it works for chat and Cowork too.
  • Private. No analytics and no server. The optional Claude Code scan keeps totals only, never prompts or code. Open source, so you can check.
  • Claude only. If you want other providers in the same place, CodexBar is the better fit.
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The other Clausage

There’s another Mac app called Clausage, made by Schizm and sold as a paid app. It’s a different app with a different maker, and there’s no connection between the two. This one is free, open source and lives at clausage.ai.