I built Tokenyst to stop getting shocked by Claude Code API bills
Details
- External ID
- 48095283
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I built Tokenyst to stop getting shocked by Claude Code API bills
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5516962843295639
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Fintech
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- api cost monitoring for claude
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI proxy or cost-tracking dashboard for Claude Code API usage involves basic API request intercepting, token counting, and cost calculation.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 95 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 96 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Claude Code Token Elo · hn · 2026-03-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tokenmaxx · hn · 2026-07-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I put my Claude Code rate-limit burndown in the status line · hn · 2026-06-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Tokencap · hn · 2026-04-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- CodeBurn · hn · 2026-04-13 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- hotseat · github · 2026-09-15 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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