Tokens 4 Breakfast
Track token usageand manage AI spendacross major AI platforms.
Ship before the limit hits.
Track subscriptions, token usage, and rate-limit pressure from one private Mac menu bar app.
Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini, Copilot, and more — one local view.
NLNo login
NCNo cloud
NTNo tracking
OPOne-time Pro
Built in Germany · Private by design · Built for AI builders
Inside the app
Four screens that make the price obvious.
Your whole AI stack, visible from one menu bar across the four views you actually check.
Live command center
One menu bar. Your whole AI bill.
Live Claude Web limits, your AI subscriptions, and a tap-through to Usage Insights all live in one calm popover. You see the real picture before another session quietly gets expensive.
Provider coverage
All 8 providers in one source of truth.
Claude Web connects with live rate limits, Claude Code is auto-detected from your local files, and OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Mistral each take one key. No tab safari.
Menu bar control
Put the number that matters in the menu bar.
Show a live provider, all-provider spend, or subscription total. The signal stays visible in the format that matches how you actually work.
Morning digest + alerts
Get the warning before the bill gets weird.
Morning digests, rate-limit thresholds, and budget alerts surface the drift early. You wake up with the number already waiting.
Key features
The features that make T4B different.
Five product decisions make the app useful while you work, not after the damage is done.
Ambient rate-limit warning
The menu bar cup shifts from calm to amber to red before Claude Code rate limits your session.
You do not need another dashboard to tell you your runway is collapsing. The warning stays visible while you are still working.
Month-end bill prediction
Catch the $47/month drift before it turns into another quiet invoice.
The point is not the number alone. The point is seeing the spend pattern early enough to stop it while the month is still recoverable.
$47/mo
Common spend caught
Zero-setup onboarding
Claude Code and GitHub Copilot connect from local config. Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, and OpenRouter take one key.
This is built for builders in the middle of work, not for people who want another configuration project.
Session budget / Focus Mode
Set a spend cap before you start, then get warned before you drift past it.
The point is to stop the accidental runaway agent run while the session is still open in front of you.
AI Subscription Tracking
Track what you pay for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, Cursor, and every other AI subscription in one place.
See your total monthly AI bill — API costs AND subscriptions combined — before it surprises you.
€132
Typical monthly sub total
Pricing
One price. No subscription. Yours forever.
Start free with the live meter. Upgrade once the forecasting, budget guardrails, and cross-provider visibility start saving real money.
Rate Limit Forecasting
Know you'll hit your limit 2 hours before it happens. Not after.
8 Providers, One Dashboard
Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot and more — aggregated in real time.
Per-Session Budgets
Set a $2 budget for this task. Get alerted at 80%. Never overspend a session.
A clean funnel, not a crippled trial.
Pick one provider, keep the live cost visible, and decide later if you need the forecasting and control layer.
- 1 provider of your choice
- Live menu bar spend display
- Today / 7-day / 30-day history
- Claude Code 5-hour window timer
- Multi-currency support
No account required · One provider of your choice · Multi-currency ready
Pro
$7.99
One-time, no subscription ever
Less than two cups of coffee. Pay once, use forever.
Best value
Usage Insights
New in 1.0.6
- See where every token goes, by project and by model
- What is eating your weekly limit, with cache-reuse and Opus-share analysis
- Stretch-your-limit guidance, calculated locally; it never reads your prompts
- Custom date ranges across every view
Unlock All Providers
- Includes everything in Free, plus every provider in one view
- All 8 providers: Claude Code, Claude Web, OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, and Mistral
- Claude Web subscription rate-limit tracking (5-hour window + weekly)
- GitHub Copilot Free, Individual, Business, and Enterprise plan support
Intelligence & Forecasting
Unique to T4B
- Velocity-based rate limit forecasting
- Plan optimization recommendations with upgrade / downgrade signals
- Per-provider daily & weekly budget alerts
Workflow & Export
- Focus Mode session budgets with real-time alerts
- CSV export & weekly summary share
- Privacy Audit Log — inspect every network call the app makes
- Sessions tab with per-session cost breakdown
- AI subscription cost tracker for Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus, Cursor, Copilot, and more
- Multi-currency monthly spend total and provider donut chart
- Priority email support and lifetime updates
One-time payment · macOS 14.6 Sonoma or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · 14-day refund guarantee
Built in Germany
100% local — no cloud, no account
Native Swift — not Electron
Free updates included
14-day refund, no questions
During beta, Pro is free. Click "Get Pro — $7.99" in the app after downloading and it activates instantly.
Why people pay
T4B users find $47/month they forgot was running — on day one.
That is the first moment where the app pays for itself: you catch the drift before it becomes another month of background spend.
No more mid-task interruptions
You know exactly how much runway you have before Claude cuts out. No surprises at minute 47 of a long agent run.
No more end-of-month bill panic
The month-end total is predictable from day one. Tokens 4 Breakfast shows your projected spend every morning.
No more context-switching
The number lives in your menu bar. You never have to open a dashboard, check a browser tab, or log in to anything.
Works with
Works with every AI tool you already use
8 providers. One menu bar. Zero tab switching.
Track your stack
Every high-intent path now points to the right tracker.
Searchers do not all start with the brand. Some look for Claude Code limits, Cursor spend, OpenAI API cost, or a local AI budget tracker. This hub gets each one to the right page in one click.
Compare before you choose
Bottom-funnel pages for people already comparing tools.
Comparison
The alternatives solve parts of the problem. This one stays open while you work.
Single-provider trackers show you a number. T4B shows you what that number means — across every AI tool you use.
Know before you're blocked.
T4B tracks your Claude usage velocity every 5 minutes and projects when you'll hit your 5-hour or weekly limit. You get a heads-up with hours to spare — not after the limit cuts your session.
Budget this task, not your whole month.
Set a $1, $2, or $5 budget for the next hour of work. T4B alerts you at 80% and again at 100% in real time. Perfect for keeping API-billed work sessions under control.
One bill. Eight tools. Full picture.
Single-provider trackers give you one number. T4B aggregates Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot, and four more into a single dashboard with 7-day history and a 30-day run-rate prediction.
Setup
Most people are fully set up in under two minutes.
The setup flow is short on purpose. Download the app, connect what you use, and let the spend signal stay in the menu bar while you work.
01
Download
Click the button. Open the .zip. Drag to Applications.
02
Connect
Pick your provider in Settings. Claude Code and GitHub Copilot connect automatically from your local config — no API key needed. Cursor, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, and OpenRouter connect via API key. Free plan: 1 provider. Pro: all 8.
03
Watch
Your live spend appears in the menu bar. That's it.
Proof
From developers who stopped guessing
These are the moments the app is built for: switching models sooner, catching runaway sessions earlier, and seeing all provider spend in one place.
“
I didn't realize I was burning $60/month on Claude Opus for tasks Sonnet handles just fine. Found it on day one.
Alex M., indie developer
“
The Focus Mode session budget is the only thing that's stopped me from accidentally running a runaway agent loop while I grab coffee.
Priya K., full-stack engineer
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I track 4 providers: Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, and Copilot. This is the only app that shows them all in one place.
James T., AI tooling builder
Privacy
Your data never leaves your Mac.
Tokens 4 Breakfast does not need a cloud backend, an account, or a telemetry pipeline. Your usage data stays in a local SQLite database on your machine, so the app keeps working even when you are offline.
German-built, local-first software for people who want the spend signal without turning their usage data into someone else's dataset.
Everything stays on your Mac. No account. No cloud. No subscription — ever.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before they install.
Quick answers on what T4B tracks, how privacy works, and where the free plan stops.
What is Tokens 4 Breakfast?
Tokens 4 Breakfast (T4B) is a native macOS menu bar app that tracks your AI usage, costs, and rate limits across multiple providers in one unified dashboard. Instead of checking Claude's settings page, then OpenAI's billing page, then Cursor's dashboard separately, T4B aggregates everything into a single live view that's always one click away. It also forecasts when you'll hit rate limits, tracks spending trends over time, and lets you set budget caps with alerts so you never get surprised by a bill.
Where is Tokens 4 Breakfast built?
Tokens 4 Breakfast is built in Germany with a local-first privacy model: no account, no telemetry, and usage data stored on your Mac.
What providers are supported?
T4B supports 8 providers: Claude Code, Claude Web (claude.ai subscription tracking), OpenAI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, and Mistral. Claude Code connects automatically by reading local session files with no API key needed. GitHub Copilot connects via your local CLI credentials. Claude Web connects via your browser session cookie to track 5-hour and weekly rate limits in real time. All other providers connect via API key. The free plan includes 1 provider; Pro unlocks all 8.
What is Focus Mode?
Focus Mode lets you set a dollar budget for a specific work session. Hit Start, pick a budget ($1, $2, $5, or custom), and T4B monitors your real-time spend across all connected providers. You'll get a notification at 80% of your budget and again when you hit 100%. It's useful when you want to timebox AI-assisted tasks without accidentally running up a large bill, especially when using API-billed providers like OpenAI or DeepSeek.
Does the app read my conversations or prompts?
No, and this is not a vague assurance. Here is exactly what happens in the code: when T4B reads Claude Code session files, it extracts only the `usage` metadata object (token counts, model name, timestamp, cost). The actual message content, your prompts, and AI responses are never read, parsed, stored, or transmitted. The same applies to every other provider: T4B calls their official usage/billing API endpoints, which return aggregate token counts and costs, never conversation content. There is no technical path in the app to access your chats.
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The free plan lets you connect 1 provider and includes the full menu bar dashboard, 7-day spending chart, and subscription tracker. It's fully functional with no time limit and no account creation required. If you only use Claude Code and want to track your token usage and costs, the free plan covers that completely.
Does it work with Claude Code without an API key?
Yes. T4B reads Claude Code's local session files (JSONL format in `~/.claude/projects/`) directly on your Mac. No API key, no network call, no configuration beyond enabling the provider toggle. If you use Claude Code, T4B will automatically detect and parse your sessions.