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John
John

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I built TokenBar because LLM costs were too easy to ignore

If you build with LLMs every day, token usage turns into background noise until the bill shows up.

I wanted one thing: live visibility without opening another dashboard.

So I built TokenBar.

It sits in the macOS menu bar and shows LLM token usage in real time.

The goal is simple:

  • see usage while you work
  • spot expensive prompts earlier
  • keep cost visible for AI builder workflows

TokenBar is $5 lifetime: https://tokenbar.site/

Still early, so I am watching how people actually use it and where cost visibility breaks down.

If you build with AI every day, what would you want visible all the time?

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