ClaudeMeter is a clean, lightweight menu bar gauge for one thing: how close your claude.ai plan is to its limit. Tokens 4 Breakfast keeps that live limit view and adds the rest of the picture — Claude Code tokens by project and model, seven more providers, real spend, and subscription totals.
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.
ClaudeMeter focuses on claude.ai plan usage — a color-coded gauge that warns as you approach the limit. T4B tracks the same live 5-hour and weekly limits, plus Claude Code, OpenAI, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, and Mistral.
A gauge answers 'how close am I to the cap?'. T4B answers that and 'where did the tokens go, and what is it costing?' — with Usage Insights breaking tokens down by project and model, plus a running spend and subscription total in the menu bar.
ClaudeMeter reads your claude.ai plan usage. T4B also auto-detects Claude Code from local session files and surfaces per-project, per-model, and cache breakdowns — the part that actually explains your weekly burn.
Both stay lightweight and on-device. T4B makes local-first a product guarantee: no account, no cloud, no telemetry, and a built-in audit log of every outbound network call.
Use ClaudeMeter when
You only use claude.ai, want the lightest possible menu bar gauge, and a single color-coded limit indicator is all you need.
Use T4B when
You use Claude Code or more than one AI tool and want limits, spend, token breakdowns, and subscriptions together in one private menu bar app.
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