ccusage

Inspired by a recent Simon Willison post, I just ran ccusage on my laptop and learned that over the past thirty days, on my sole subscription of $200 a month for Claude, I have consumed $2,422.13 worth of tokens. 1All of this elides the fact that ccusage anchors onto something that is itself slightly lossy: we have to take as given the assumption that the unit cost of tokens through metered billing for companies like Anthropic is, in and of itself, profitable. I suspect that it is. But it's worth calling out, since the entire $2,422.13 number rests on it. Talk about getting my money's worth. It is interesting — and a little bracing — to think about the hypothetical world in which no prosumer subsidy exists, and I would have to actually pay $2,422.13 to receive the output of these tokens. First off, I think my usage patterns would change dramatically. The vast majority of these tokens are spent on Buttondown, and at that price point Anthropic would be the second-largest vendor on the…