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I used $30,983 of AI tokens last month in Claude code on $200/mo plan

I built tokenflex.ing — a public leaderboard where devs and vibe coders can show off how much ai tokens they have used with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor and other AI tools.

Kind of like a GitHub profile, but for AI token usage.

My profile so far:

  • 18.7B tokens all-time
  • 17B tokens last 30 days
  • 51,414 Claude Code events
  • 5 models (Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7, Sonnet 4.6, Codex, synthetic)
  • Currently rank #4 today

Funny thing is nobody actually knows their actual token usage until they look. You assume you're using "a lot" of Claude. Then you see 12B tokens for the
month and have to quietly close the tab.

What does yours look like?

Especially if you're curious about anyone running Claude Code + Cursor + Codex together you must compare your usage with them.

You should try tokenflex.ing if you want to do that.

posted to Icon for group Building in Public
Building in Public
on May 22, 2026
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    i think that's a much needed service industry needed and this thing hasn't been launched anywhere till now that's the most concerning part.

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    My shape is the opposite of yours, but that's the interesting part. On my small indie iOS memo app this year I burned ~340M tokens in 5 months — almost all from running CC in plan-mode on the same 3 Swift files I refused to refactor by hand. Switching to Sonnet for explanation passes and reserving Opus for the actual surgery cut monthly spend about 60% with no quality drop I could detect. The leaderboard's funny edge is what raw burn actually measures — it's curiosity, not value — and a "tokens-per-shipped-feature" axis would make that cruel in the best way. Until someone bolts that on, the rank quietly becomes a permission slip to keep burning.

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      i understand that totally and agree with you. this is just a start which needs a validation and would start shipping more and more useful features on speed of light.

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    amazing... that's crazy bro

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    BUT how do you track token count for the claude desktop or web?

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      we use claude code instance for that

    1. 1

      thanks for your kind words i would recommend checking it out

    1. 1

      Thanks man... did you gave it a try?

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    is it for mac only or it works on windows as well?

    1. 1

      it works on both using cli

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    i will try it for sure

    1. 1

      thanks will be waiting for your thoughts on it

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