Pricey 🤑 is a macOS status bar app that tracks your Claude Code AI usage costs in real-time and compares them to human developer costs. See exactly how your AI expenses stack up against traditional development - because spending $5 on AI that saves 2 hours of developer time is a bargain! 🤖💰

• 💰 Real-time cost tracking - See your Claude costs live in your menu bar
• 📊 Code statistics - Track lines of code added and removed by Claude Code
• 💼 Salary calculator - Calculate how much developer time you're saving
• 🎯 Model-specific pricing - Accurate costs for different Claude models
• 🔄 Auto-refresh - Automatically updates on code changes
• ⚡ Lightweight - Minimal resource usage, lives quietly in your menu bar

Adding support for the following CLI vibe code tools:

• Gemini CLI
• Amazon Q
• OpenAI Codex

• macOS 14.0 or later
• Claude Code app installed

1. Download the latest release from the releases page
2. Move to Applications - Drag Pricey.app to your Applications folder
3. Launch - Open Pricey from your Applications folder
4. Grant permissions - Allow file access when prompted

The app will automatically start tracking your Claude usage and display costs in your menu bar.

Pricey reads your Claude project files from ~/.claude/projects and calculates costs based on:

• Input tokens - Text you send to Claude
• Output tokens - Claude's responses
• Cache creation - When Claude creates prompt cache
• Cache reads - When Claude uses cached prompts

Different Claude models have different pricing, and Pricey automatically detects which model was used for each conversation.

The menu bar shows your current session costs (e.g., $4.123). Click the dollar sign icon to see:

• Code statistics - Lines added/removed
• Salary savings - Estimated developer time saved
• Reset - Clear current session costs
• Settings - Configure the app

Configure Pricey to match your workflow:

• Launch at startup - Start Pricey automatically
• Lines per day - Your coding productivity (for salary calculation)
• Yearly salary - Your annual income (for savings calculation)

• Xcode 15.0 or later

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mobile-next/pricey.git
cd pricey

# Open in Xcode
open Pricey.xcodeproj

# Build and run
# Press Cmd+R in Xcode

We love contributions! Whether it's bug fixes, new features, or documentation improvements.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Make sure:

• Claude Code is installed and you've used it
• You've granted file access permissions
• Project files exist in ~/.claude/projects

Currently, Pricey only supports Claude. We'd love to add support for other services if there's interest!

Yes! Pricey only reads local files and never sends data anywhere. All processing happens locally on your Mac.

Pricey reads Claude's local project files to calculate token usage and costs. This is read-only access to your ~/.claude/projects directory.