Rate limits land mid-thought. Tokes sits in your menu bar showing how much of your Claude plan and GitHub Copilot allowance is left — before the wall, not after.
Three slim bars — session, weekly, per-model — sit in your menu bar and shift green, orange, red as you spend. No window to open.
The usage APIs report only the current instant. Tokes samples locally on every poll and keeps eight days, so you can actually see the trend.
No account, no analytics, no middleman server. A token goes to the service that issued it — nothing goes anywhere else, including to us.
Session (5 hr), Weekly (7 day), and your plan’s per-model weekly cap, each a bar that fills as you spend and colors by how close you are. Add the optional percentage readout, or keep the icon alone — it’s off by default. At 100% the number turns red: you’re blocked. While polls fail it turns orange: the numbers may be stale. Tokes tells you which is which instead of guessing.
Every limit with its own chart, a reset countdown, and — with GitHub Copilot on — your credits against the allowance you set. “Updated 42 sec ago” means the oldest number on screen, so freshness is never overstated. If a provider fails, the last known numbers stay put behind an honest banner instead of blanking.
A divider in the strip, grouped sections in the popover, a dashed line on Copilot’s charts — two services you can tell apart at arm’s length. The Claude buckets are your account plan’s limits, the same ones claude.ai and the desktop apps draw down. The Copilot meter is measured against an allowance you choose, because GitHub doesn’t expose your plan to anyone — Tokes doesn’t pretend otherwise.
GitHub Copilot connects with a real sign-in — Tokes’ own GitHub App asks for exactly one fine-grained permission, Account → Plan: read. It cannot see your code, repos, or issues. Claude works the other way around, on purpose: Anthropic doesn’t sanction third-party credential access, so you export your own sign-in with one Terminal command and hand Tokes the file. It never touches another app’s credential store. An optional Claude Code hook keeps the file fresh on every session start — and if you don’t open Claude Code for a while, Claude data goes stale and Tokes says so plainly rather than papering over it.
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"hooks" : {
"SessionStart" : [
{
"hooks" : [
{
"command" : "umask 077; creds=$(security find-generic-password -s \"Claude Code-credentials\" -w 2>/dev/null) && printf '%s\n' \"$creds\" > ~/.claude/tokes-credentials.json; true",
"type" : "command"
}
],
"matcher" : "*"
}
]
}
}Tokes is MIT-licensed and developed in the open. No account, no in-app purchases, no telemetry — and the Mac App Store build is compiled from the same public source as everything else, with nothing added. If you’d rather build it yourself, the repo is right there.
No. Tokes is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic or GitHub. “Claude” and “GitHub Copilot” are their owners’ trademarks, used here only to describe what Tokes monitors. Tokes requires your own active Claude subscription and/or GitHub Copilot seat — it doesn’t provide, resell, or include either service.
No. Tokes transmits exactly one thing: a bearer token, in an Authorization header, to the service that issued it. It contacts Anthropic’s usage endpoint and GitHub’s billing and sign-in endpoints — that is the complete list, and the source is public if you’d like to check.
GitHub sanctions third-party access to your own usage data; Anthropic currently doesn’t. So the GitHub side is one click, and on the Claude side you stay the actor: one Terminal command exports your own sign-in, and Tokes imports the file you picked. Settings walks you through both.
No — GitHub doesn’t expose entitlement to anyone. You pick your allowance (Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, or a custom number) and Tokes measures against it.
Org-provided seats have no per-user billing data — that’s GitHub’s boundary, not a Tokes setting. Tokes tells you so directly instead of showing a meaningless 0%.
Yes, necessarily: the buckets Tokes reads are your account plan’s limits, shared by claude.ai, the desktop apps, and Claude Code alike.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, native on Apple silicon and Intel. Updates come through the App Store — there’s no background updater phoning home.
The vendors’ APIs have no history at all, so Tokes can only chart what it has seen. You’ll get “Collecting history…” until a few samples exist, then trends — up to eight days.