Guides·Usage tracking

Usage tracking and analytics

A subscription hides the meter by design. These guides cover every way to get the number back: the built-in commands, the community tools, the OTel metrics pipeline, and what each one can and cannot see.

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How to track Claude Code token usage and cost The JSONL files on your disk already record every token. Here is how to turn them into a number you can defend. 8 min Claude Code usage: what it measures and how to see it Three different numbers all get called usage. Which one you need depends on whether you are worried about being cut off or being billed. 7 min How to check Claude Code usage: five ways, fastest first From the two-second answer to a permanent quota readout in your prompt, in the order you should try them. 6 min ccusage: the reference tool for Claude Code token costs Every command, every flag that matters, and the dedup subtlety that makes it the number to trust. 6 min Claude usage trackers compared: every option that works Seven categories of tool, what each can actually see, and the split that decides which one you need. 7 min Monitoring Claude Code usage in real time Live quota, burn rate, and time to exhaustion: the three numbers that turn a surprise cut-off into a plan. 7 min Claude Code monitor tools: the terminal options compared The terminal-native options, what each can see, and how to put live quota in your prompt permanently. 6 min Build your own Claude Code usage tracker The file format, the schema, the dedup rule, and the five traps that make naive implementations wrong. 7 min The Claude Code Analytics API: per-user usage for an org Admin key auth, the exact daily per-user record, and the two other Anthropic analytics APIs people call by this name. 7 min Claude Code metrics: the OpenTelemetry reference Eight metrics, fifteen events, the attribute set that actually ships, and the two defaults that will cost you money. 7 min Claude Code usage analytics: what is worth measuring Four metrics that change what you do, five that never will, a real benchmark to compare against, and how to read a skewed distribution. 7 min A Claude Code usage dashboard: options and what to put on it Five routes ranked by what they cost you to keep working, and the six panels a dashboard actually needs. 5 min The Claude Code analytics dashboard for organisations Which dashboard your plan gets, how the PR attribution actually works, and how to report adoption without it becoming surveillance. 7 min How to check your Claude usage limit and what is left How to see remaining headroom rather than past consumption, on every surface, and why most tools structurally cannot show it. 6 min Claude usage tracker browser extensions: what they can see What an extension can genuinely measure, the first-party page that made most of them unnecessary, and the permission worth reading first. 6 min The best Claude usage trackers, ranked and tested Seven real options, what each can genuinely see, and the one question that decides between them. 8 min
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