u/Bren-dev

I think a lot about the near-term future pricing of AI tools. It is definitely unsustainable for companies that aren't incredibly profitable. Has anyone seen the pay-as-you-go prices for these tools? It's insane.

Working on a side project it would have cost me over $100 just to remove and restructure some functionality that I decided was unnecessary for the first build. I don't track this with my team and haven't seen any good ways of doing so really. Does anyone know of any tools for tracking token consumption on a feature or branch level, or even on a project level?

https://preview.redd.it/0chyg4ri4p0h1.png?width=3399&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b62c85edc465c9efc1e0267c1fd96ba64854439

Wicklow based dev and I've built an open source tool which aggregates all of your token consumption - you can see on a conversation, branch or project level how many tokens used and what the cost of that usage would be, going by their pay-as-you-go tier - which I think is relevant given the generous plans we use now have a very limited shelf-life... I believe.

Everything works client-side, it doesn't track anything to do with your conversations, consumption etc. Anthropic store a treasure trove of data locally in your Claude/Projects folder. My app, Tokenoptics, doesn't have a database, it just has two Formspree forms - one for feedback and another for registering future interest.

It really is eye-opening to see what the costs would be from some of our dev work - it would've cost me $70 just to remove a chunk of 'AI' functionality - which I decided it doesn't actually need (it has none, now).

https://preview.redd.it/63q113fsyg0h1.png?width=3420&format=png&auto=webp&s=14e9240df6228f7d13d0f4a9cbee376b612e74d4

https://preview.redd.it/9efb53fsyg0h1.png?width=3420&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c11e61c25eba1ca0545660425a14f08464de498

As we become more heavily reliant on code-gen tools, transparency is going to be essential especially as prices continue to increase. I think this comment will make a lot of people on this site angry but I do believe it is reality. Would love to get some feedback.

*It only works for Chromium and Claude Code users.

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