How to track & reduce AI coding cost

Step-by-step guides for checking, reducing, and understanding what your coding agents cost.

• How to check your Claude Code cost
• How to check your Codex usage limit
• How to track token usage on macOS
• How to reduce your Claude Code cost
• How to enable Claude live limits in JP the Cat
• Understanding the Claude 5-hour window
• Why is Claude Code so expensive?
• How much does Codex cost?
• Codex Plus and Pro rate limits
• Real cost vs notional list price
• The historical ccusage cache-cost bug
• The new tokenizer that adds ~30% more tokens
• The 200K / 272K context cliff