Claude Usage Tracker

🔍 Track and analyze your Claude Code usage with rate limit awareness. Parse JSONL logs, calculate costs, and get warnings before hitting rate limits.

✨ Features

• 📊 Personalized Rate Limit Tracking - Calculates accurate usage estimates from YOUR conversation patterns
• 📈 Real Data Analysis - Analyzes session durations and token patterns from JSONL logs
• 🚨 Precise Warnings - Shows exact usage like "Sonnet 4: 89.5 hrs (111.9% of limit)" instead of vague ranges
• 💰 Accurate Cost Tracking - Monitor real token usage and costs ($2,200 weekly spend)
• 🎯 Smart Plan Recommendations - Compare your actual usage across Pro, $100 Max, and $200 Max plans
• 🤖 AI Model Advisor - Get real-time recommendations on whether to use Sonnet vs Opus for maximum savings
• 🔴 Live Monitoring - Real-time dashboard with burn rate analysis and efficiency alerts
• 📏 Conversation Length Analytics - Analyze conversation patterns and get optimization recommendations
• 📱 Beautiful CLI Output - Clean, colorful tables with actionable insights

🚀 Installation

NPX (Recommended)

# Run directly without installation
npx claude-usage-tracker status

# Or use the shorter alias
npx claude-usage-tracker help

Global Installation

npm install -g claude-usage-tracker
claude-usage status

From Source

git clone https://github.com/haasonsaas/claude-usage-tracker.git
cd claude-usage-tracker
npm install
npm run build

📱 Quick Commands

# Check current status
npx claude-usage-tracker status

# View daily breakdown
npx claude-usage-tracker daily --days 7

# Compare all plans
npx claude-usage-tracker check-limits

# Get efficiency insights
npx claude-usage-tracker insights

# Get model recommendation
npx claude-usage-tracker recommend "Write a REST API"

# Live monitoring (press Ctrl+C to stop)
npx claude-usage-tracker watch

# Analyze conversation length patterns with cost insights
npx claude-usage-tracker length --days 30

Usage

Check Current Status

claude-usage status --plan "Pro"

Shows your current week usage and rate limit status for your plan.

View Daily Usage

claude-usage daily --days 7

View daily breakdown of your Claude Code usage.

Compare Plans

claude-usage check-limits

See how your current usage compares across all Claude Code plans.

Get Model Recommendations

claude-usage recommend "Write a function to sort arrays"
# or interactive mode
claude-usage recommend

Get AI-powered recommendations on whether to use Sonnet 4 or Opus 4 for your specific task, with cost savings calculations.

Live Usage Monitoring

claude-usage watch

Real-time monitoring dashboard showing:

• Live cost tracking with today's spend and burn rate analysis
• Conversation efficiency ratings (⭐⭐⭐ for high efficiency)
• Weekly progress toward rate limits
• Real-time alerts for high burn rates or inefficient conversations

Conversation Length Analytics

claude-usage length

Analyze your conversation patterns and get insights on optimal conversation lengths:

• Length distribution across quick, medium, deep, and marathon conversations
• Success rate analysis by conversation length category
• Project-specific patterns with tailored recommendations
• Efficiency metrics to optimize your Claude usage
• Actionable recommendations for breaking down complex tasks

Commands

Command	Description	Options
status	Show current week usage and rate limit status	-p, --plan <plan> - Your Claude plan (Pro, $100 Max, $200 Max)
daily	Show daily usage breakdown	-d, --days <days> - Number of days to show (default: 7)
week	Show current week summary	None
check-limits	Check rate limit status for all plans	None
insights	Show detailed efficiency insights and optimization recommendations	-d, --days <days> - Number of days to analyze (default: 30)
recommend	Get AI-powered model recommendation for your task	[prompt] - Task description (optional, will prompt interactively)
watch	Live monitoring with real-time cost tracking and burn rate analysis	None - Press Ctrl+C to stop
length	Analyze conversation length patterns and get optimization recommendations	-d, --days <days> - Number of days to analyze (default: all data)

Rate Limits (Effective August 28, 2025)

Plan	Price	Sonnet 4 Weekly Limit	Opus 4 Weekly Limit
Pro	$20/month	40-80 hours	4-8 hours
$100 Max	$100/month	140-280 hours	15-35 hours
$200 Max	$200/month	240-480 hours	24-40 hours

📂 Data Sources

This tool reads Claude Code usage data from JSONL conversation logs:

• ~/.claude/projects/ - Claude Code project logs (primary)
• ~/.config/claude/projects/ - Alternative location

The tool automatically parses JSONL files to extract and analyze:

• Token usage (input, output, cache tokens) per conversation
• Session durations calculated from message timestamps
• Personal usage patterns to estimate accurate hours-per-model
• Model information (Sonnet 4, Opus 4, etc.) with precise rate calculations
• Cost calculations based on current Anthropic pricing

📊 Example Output

╔═══════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Claude Code Usage Status (Pro Plan) ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════╝

┌───────────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ Week              │ 2025-07-28 to 2025-08-03 │
├───────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Total Tokens      │ 2.18M           │
├───────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Total Cost        │ $2196.16        │
├───────────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ Conversations     │ 24              │
└───────────────────┴─────────────────┘

┌──────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────┬─────────┬──────────┐
│ Model    │ Estimated Usage │ Weekly Limit │ % Used  │ Status   │
├──────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼──────────┤
│ Sonnet 4 │ 89.5 hrs        │ 40-80 hrs    │ 111.9%  │ ⚠️  High │
├──────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼──────────┤
│ Opus 4   │ 99.2 hrs        │ 4-8 hrs      │ 1240.1% │ ⚠️  High │
└──────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴──────────┘

⚠️  WARNING: You are approaching your weekly rate limits!

Conversation Length Analytics Output

╔═══════════════════════════════════╗
║ 📏 Conversation Length Analysis ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════╝

📊 Overview
Total conversations: 229
Optimal range: 21-100 messages
Deep exploration is most effective for complex problems

📈 Length Distribution
Quick (1-5 msgs): 3.5% (8 conversations)
Medium (6-20 msgs): 5.2% (12 conversations)  
Deep (21-100 msgs): 19.2% (44 conversations)
Marathon (100+ msgs): 72.1% (165 conversations)

🏗️ Project Profiles

evalops-platform:
  Conversations: 156
  Avg length: 892.3 messages
  Optimal range: 21-100 messages
  Deep exploration conversations are most effective
  💡 Recommendations:
    • Break down complex tasks into smaller conversations
    • Consider focusing on specific problems to improve efficiency

🔍 Key Insights
• Your average conversation length is 821 messages
• Your most successful conversations average 102 messages - shorter than average
• Deep conversations (21-100 msgs) show highest success rates

💡 Recommendations
• Consider breaking down complex problems into multiple focused conversations
• Marathon conversations show lower success rates - try shorter, targeted sessions

🎯 Why This Is Better

Before: Vague ranges like "9.2-18.4 hrs" based on arbitrary estimates
Now: Precise estimates like "89.5 hrs" calculated from YOUR actual coding sessions

The tool analyzes your conversation patterns over the last 2 weeks to calculate personalized tokens-per-hour rates, giving you actionable insights for plan optimization.

Inspired By

This project builds on the excellent work of ccusage by @ryoppippi, adding specific focus on the new weekly rate limits introduced in July 2025.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

MIT © Jonathan Haas