Token Monster
A pixel pet for Claude Code that eats your tokens
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Details
- External ID
- 1269132
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Token Monster
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.89
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
Token Monster is a pixel-art pet in a side pane of Claude Code. It eats every token Claude streams. Its size shows how full your context is, its glow shows your usage limits, and its face shows what Claude is doing. Free and open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- virtual desktop pets and widgets
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tamagotchi-style companion for claude code users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An open-source desktop overlay or terminal pane extension reading token stream events from Claude Code and rendering dynamic pixel art animations accordingly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 55 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #9 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- Chomp · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Masko Code · ph · 2026-03-16 · 200 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Nomlings · hn · 2026-07-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- codyssey · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tamamon · ph · 2026-07-03 · 323 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Doberman: The AI watchdog that stops Claude from deleting your database · hn · 2026-08-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Claude-Mascot-Style-Gallery · github · 2026-10-01 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Wienerdog · hn · 2026-08-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38