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Hey โ forks!
Like many of you, I've been using Claude Code with the max plan ($100/month unlimited). But I was always curious - how much would this actually cost if I were paying per token?
I built ccusage - a simple CLI tool to analyze your token usage and show the "virtual cost".
The results shocked me:
6 days of usage: 731,540 tokens
Virtual cost: $336.17
That's $56/day average
Projected monthly cost: ~$1,680
Actual cost: $100 (max plan)
Projected monthly savings: ~$1,580!
Some fun discoveries:
Single sessions can hit $98+ (one massive refactoring session)
Daily usage ranges from $8 to $17 (though these are just 3 days shown)
Output tokens dwarf input tokens (Claude Code writes A LOT)
At this rate, I'm saving over 15x the subscription cost. The max plan pays for itself in less than 2 days!
Usage is dead simple:
npx ccusage@latest
No installation needed. It reads from ~/.claude/projects/ and shows beautiful tables with daily/session breakdowns.
GitHub: https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage
P.S. If you're still on pay-as-you-go... you might want to run the numbers ๐