Decant
Understand how you spend tokens
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Hey HN - there are lots of tools to understand how many tokens you use and how much it costs, but we haven't found any that tell you where those tokens are going!Decant helps you understand what you are spending tokens on (context gathering, planning, code, chat, etc), so you can optimize it.
HN · launched Aug 12, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 42%) · 0 views
Niche: llm cost monitoring tools · 49 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes Decant is an LLM token spend categorization tool, which can be vibe-coded by parsing prompt traces, tagging message types (context, prompt, completion), and displaying charts.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 67 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #28 of 68 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 274 days after the earliest competitor.
- Ctx, save tokens by loading only the relevant tools · hn · 2026-06-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- CodeBurn · hn · 2026-04-13 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Claude Code Session Tracker · ph · 2026-10-05 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Tokenearly · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- TokenTrack · ph · 2026-10-02 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Frugal Tokens · hn · 2026-08-19 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Track Token usage for major platforms,know your token flow · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- thedrain · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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