ClaudeBar is a tidy menu bar app for glancing at coding-assistant quotas across a few tools. Tokens 4 Breakfast covers more providers and adds the dimension quota trackers leave out: actual spend, subscription totals, and a token-level breakdown of where your usage goes.
The point is not to pretend every alternative is bad. It is to make the tradeoff obvious for a Mac builder who needs a live operating signal.
ClaudeBar focuses on coding-assistant usage quotas. T4B tracks eight providers — Claude Code, Claude Web, OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, and Mistral, with Gemini coming soon — including API spend, not only quota percentages.
Quota bars tell you how much of a plan is left. T4B adds the money: live spend, a month-end forecast, per-provider budgets with alerts, and your flat-rate subscriptions folded into one total.
T4B's Usage Intelligence breaks Claude Code tokens down by project and model and flags what's eating your weekly limit — the detail a quota glance can't show.
Both live in the menu bar. T4B leans into ambient awareness: catch rate-limit pressure, runaway sessions with Focus Mode, and spend drift before they interrupt a build — all local-first with no account.
Use ClaudeBar when
You want a simple, open-source glance at coding-assistant quotas and don't need spend, subscriptions, or cost forecasting.
Use T4B when
You want quotas plus real spend, subscriptions, budgets, and per-project token detail in one private Mac app — and a one-time price instead of a subscription.
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