I built Tokenyst to stop getting shocked by Claude Code API bills
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HN · launched May 11, 2026 · 9 upvotes (top 45%) · 0 views
Niche: llm cost monitoring tools · 49 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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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.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 211 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #78 of 212 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 192 days after the earliest competitor.
- ContextSaver · github · 2026-09-16 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- tokendoctor · github · 2026-10-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Claude Code's $200 plan is a 17× subsidy on the raw API · hn · 2026-05-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Claude Code Token Elo · hn · 2026-03-10 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- optimaizr · github · 2026-09-30 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- TokenTrack · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Tokenmaxx · hn · 2026-07-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I put my Claude Code rate-limit burndown in the status line · hn · 2026-06-08 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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