ccost

Analyze Claude Code token usage and costs from local conversation logs and statusline data.

Reads JSONL files from ~/.claude/projects/, deduplicates streaming entries, calculates costs using LiteLLM pricing, and outputs as table, JSON, Markdown, HTML, CSV, TSV, or braille chart (See Screenshot).

The ccost sl subcommand (setup statusline.jsonl first) analyzes ~/.claude/statusline.jsonl for rate limit tracking, session summaries, budget estimation, and cost comparison (see ccost vs ccost sl).

Blazing fast CLI and library written in Rust with thorough tests. Also powers CC Dashboard for Claude Code, a Tauri desktop app for visualizing your Claude Code usage and more.

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Install

npm i -g ccost

Or download prebuilt binaries from GitHub Releases.

Or via Cargo (compiles from source):

cargo install ccost

Quick Start

ccost                                    # default: by day, then by model
ccost --from 2026-03-01 --to 2026-03-31 # date range
ccost --per model --cost decimal         # by model, 2-decimal cost
ccost --chart cost                       # cost chart over time

ccost sl                                 # 5h rate-limit windows (default)
ccost sl --per action                    # rate limit timeline
ccost sl --per 5h --cost decimal         # budget estimation
ccost sl --chart 5h                      # rate limit chart

CLI Reference

Grouping

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --per <dim> | Group by: day, hour, month, session, project, model. Up to 2 for nested grouping. Default: --per day --per model. | | --order <order> | Sort: asc (default) or desc. |

Two-level grouping creates parent-child rows, e.g. --per day --per model shows each day with per-model breakdowns.

Date Filtering

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --from <date> | Start date (inclusive). YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS. | | --to <date> | End date (inclusive). | | --5hfrom, --5hto | 5-hour window starting/ending at given time. | | --1wfrom, --1wto | 1-week window starting/ending at given time. |

--5hfrom/--5hto are mutually exclusive. Same for --1wfrom/--1wto. The 5h and 1w shortcuts cannot be combined with --from/--to.

Record Filtering

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --project <name> | Filter by project path (case-insensitive substring). | | --model <name> | Filter by model name (case-insensitive substring). | | --session <id> | Filter by session ID (case-insensitive substring). |

Timezone

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --tz <tz> | UTC, fixed offset (+08:00), or IANA name (Asia/Shanghai). Default: local. |

Cost Display

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --cost <mode> | true (default): integer $1. decimal: $1.23. false: hide costs. |

Output

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --output <fmt> | json, markdown, html, txt, csv, tsv. Writes to file (default: ccost.<ext>). | | --filename <path> | Custom output filename. | | --table <mode> | auto (default), full, compact. Auto picks compact when terminal < 120 cols. | | --copy <fmt> | Copy to clipboard. Uses pbcopy/xclip/wl-copy/OSC52. Independent of --output. |

Chart

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --chart <mode> | Braille line chart: cost or token. |

Granularity auto-selects based on range (hour/day/month). Only --output txt works with --chart.

Pricing

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --live-pricing | Fetch latest from LiteLLM (requires network). | | --pricing-data <path> | Custom pricing JSON file. |

Other

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --claude-dir <dir> | Override Claude config directory. Default: ~/.claude and ~/.config/claude. | | --help | Show help. | | --version | Show version. |

Statusline Analysis

ccost sl command can analyze ~/.claude/statusline.jsonl, a file produced by a Claude Code statusline hook that snapshots rate limits, cost, duration, and context window usage on every action (see ccost vs ccost sl).

Setup for statusline.jsonl

Automatic Setup

Run in Claude Code on any OS:

/statusline Set up a command-type statusline using ~/.claude/statusline.sh (or ~/.claude/statusline.ps1 on Windows). The script should read stdin and append {"ts":<unix_epoch>,"data":<stdin_json>} to ~/.claude/statusline.jsonl. Create the script and configure settings.json.

Manual Setup

Linux, macOS, WSL

Or set it up manually: add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "~/.claude/statusline.sh"
  }

Create ~/.claude/statusline.sh:

#!/bin/bash
input=$(cat)
echo "{\"ts\":$(date +%s),\"data\":$input}" >> ~/.claude/statusline.jsonl

chmod +x ~/.claude/statusline.sh

If you already have a statusline script, just append the echo line.

Windows (PowerShell)

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

  "statusLine": {
    "type": "command",
    "command": "powershell -NoProfile -File ~/.claude/statusline.ps1"
  }

Create ~/.claude/statusline.ps1:

$input = $Input | Out-String
$ts = [int](New-TimeSpan -Start (Get-Date '1970-01-01') -End (Get-Date).ToUniversalTime()).TotalSeconds
$line = "{""ts"":$ts,""data"":" + $input.Trim() + "}"
Add-Content -Path "$env:USERPROFILE\.claude\statusline.jsonl" -Value $line -Encoding UTF8

View Modes

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | ccost sl | 5-hour windows (default) | | ccost sl --per action | Rate limit timeline with per-action cost | | ccost sl --per session | By session | | ccost sl --per project | By project | | ccost sl --per day | By day | | ccost sl --per 1h | 1-hour windows within 5h windows | | ccost sl --per 5h | 5-hour rate-limit windows | | ccost sl --per 1w | 1-week rate-limit windows | | ccost sl --chart 5h | 5-hour rate limit % chart | | ccost sl --chart 1w | 1-week rate limit % chart | | ccost sl --chart cost | Cumulative cost chart |

The session/project/day/1h/5h/1w views share columns: Cost, Duration, API Time, Lines +/-, Sess, 5h%, 1w%. Window views (1h/5h/1w) add Est 5h Budget or Est 1w Budget. The 1h view also adds 5h Resets. The action view has its own layout: Time, Cost, 5h%, 1w%, 5h Resets, Session.

The 5h% and 1w% columns show the observed min-max range (e.g. 1-29%).

Statusline Flags

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --file <path> | Statusline file. Default: ~/.claude/statusline.jsonl. | | --nopromo | Disable promo adjustment for budget estimation. See below. | | --cost-diff | Compare statusline cost with LiteLLM pricing. Only with --per session. |

All shared flags (--from, --to, --tz, --session, --project, --model, --cost, --output, --filename, --copy, --order, --table) work with ccost sl.

Segments and Continued Sessions

When a session is closed and resumed, cumulative counters reset to zero. ccost sl detects these resets and sums across segments correctly.

When a session is continued via claude --continue, a new session ID is created but cumulative counters (cost, duration, lines) carry over from the predecessor without resetting. ccost sl detects this by subtracting each session's first record values as a baseline, so only the work done in the current session instance is counted.

Rate limits are account-level and do not reset with sessions.

Note: --per day assigns each session to the day it started. Sessions spanning midnight are not split.

Budget Estimation

Window views estimate the total rate-limit budget from cost and the delta in rate-limit percentage:

Est 5h Budget = Cost * 100 / delta_5h%    (for --per 1h and --per 5h)
Est 1w Budget = Cost * 100 / delta_1w%    (for --per 1w)

Where delta% = max% - min% within the window. This uses how much of the rate limit was actually consumed, not the absolute peak.

Since ccost sl only sees Claude Code cost, usage from other Claude products (web, desktop, mobile) inflates the denominator without increasing the numerator. This makes the estimate a lower bound on the real budget, with the gap proportional to non-CC usage.

Promo Adjustment

Budget estimates (and only budget estimates ("Est 5h/1w Budget")) are adjusted by default for known 2x usage promo periods (Dec 2025, Mar 2026). During these promos the rate-limit budget doubles, so the same spend uses half the percentage. Use --nopromo to disable:

ccost sl --per 5h --nopromo

For windows that partially overlap a promo period, the adjustment scales proportionally.

Examples

# HTML report with decimal cost
ccost --per project --cost decimal --output html --filename report.html

# Filter to a specific session
ccost --session abc123 --from 2026-03-23

# UTC, descending
ccost --tz UTC --order desc --from 2026-03-01

# Opus models only, no cost
ccost --model opus --cost false

# 5-hour window from a specific time
ccost --5hfrom 2026-03-24T10:00:00

# Live pricing
ccost --live-pricing

# Cost chart for last week
ccost --chart cost --1wto 2026-03-25

# CSV by month
ccost --per month --output csv --filename usage.csv

# Two-level: project > model
ccost --per project --per model --table full

# Copy JSON to clipboard
ccost --copy json

# Statusline: budget estimation
ccost sl --per 5h --cost decimal

# Statusline: cost comparison
ccost sl --per session --cost-diff --cost decimal

# Statusline: rate limit chart
ccost sl --chart 5h

Library API

ccost is also a Rust library.

[dependencies]
ccost = { path = "../ccost" }

Pipeline

load_records -> calculate_cost -> group_records -> format_*

use ccost::*;

let options = LoadOptions {
    from: Some("2026-03-01".to_string()),
    to: Some("2026-03-31".to_string()),
    tz: Some("UTC".to_string()),
    model: Some("opus".to_string()),
    ..Default::default()
};

let result = load_records(&options);
let pricing = load_pricing();
let priced = calculate_cost(&result.records, Some(&pricing));

let dimensions = vec![GroupDimension::Day, GroupDimension::Model];
let group_options = GroupOptions {
    order: SortOrder::Asc,
    tz: Some("UTC".to_string()),
};
let grouped = group_records(&priced, &dimensions, Some(&group_options));

use ccost::formatters::table::TableOptions;
let table_opts = TableOptions {
    dimension_label: "Date/Model".to_string(),
    price_mode: PriceMode::Decimal,
    compact: false,
    color: Some(true),
};
let table = format_table(&grouped.data, &grouped.totals, &table_opts);
print!("{}", table);

Key Types

struct LoadOptions {
    claude_dir: Option<String>,
    from: Option<String>,       // YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS
    to: Option<String>,
    tz: Option<String>,         // UTC, +HH:MM, or IANA name
    project: Option<String>,    // substring filter
    model: Option<String>,
    session: Option<String>,
}

enum GroupDimension { Day, Hour, Month, Session, Project, Model }

struct GroupedData {
    label: String,
    input_tokens: u64,
    output_tokens: u64,
    cache_creation_tokens: u64,
    cache_read_tokens: u64,
    input_cost: f64,
    cache_creation_cost: f64,
    cache_read_cost: f64,
    output_cost: f64,
    total_cost: f64,
    children: Option<Vec<GroupedData>>,
}

Formatters

| Function | Output | |----------|--------| | format_table() | Unicode box-drawing table with optional ANSI colors | | format_txt() | Same table, no colors | | format_json() | JSON with meta, data, totals, dedup | | format_markdown() | GFM Markdown table | | format_html() | Self-contained HTML with sortable columns | | format_csv() | RFC 4180 CSV | | format_tsv() | Tab-separated values | | render_chart() | Braille line chart |

How It Works

Data Source

Reads JSONL conversation logs from Claude Code's local storage:

• ~/.claude/projects/*/ (session files and subagents/)
• ~/.config/claude/projects/*/ (alternate location)

Both are scanned and deduplicated via symlink detection. Subagent transcripts are found in both the old (<project>/subagents/) and new (<project>/<session-uuid>/subagents/) directory structures.

Deduplication

Streaming entries share the same messageId:requestId key with increasing output_tokens. Only the highest-output record per key is kept. This dedup is global across all files, preventing double-counting between parent sessions and subagent files.

Pricing

Per-record cost via model-to-price lookup:

1. Exact match
2. Strip date suffix (-YYYYMMDD / @YYYYMMDD), retry
3. Case-insensitive exact match (with and without date suffix)
4. Case-insensitive substring match

Bundled pricing includes Claude, GLM, Kimi, and MiniMax (popular coding LLMs with official Claude Code-compatible API endpoints) from LiteLLM. Use --live-pricing for latest or --pricing-data for custom.

ccost vs ccost sl

Below we'll compare ccost (data from ~/.claude/projects/) and ccost sl (data from statusline.jsonl).

~/.claude/projects/ contains per-request JSONL logs with detailed token counts (input, output, cache creation, cache read) for every API call. ccost computes cost from these counts using LiteLLM pricing.

~/.claude/statusline.jsonl contains periodic snapshots from Claude Code's statusline, including the server-reported cumulative cost and the 5-hour and 1-week rate-limit usage percentages, which are not available anywhere else.

As shown by ccost sl --per session --cost-diff, when LiteLLM pricing is accurate, the cost computed from ~/.claude/projects/ closely matches the server-reported cost in statusline.jsonl. The statusline cost may occasionally undercount because it does not always include subagent costs. Since ~/.claude/projects/ has full per-request token breakdowns, it may be the more reliable source for cost.

The primary value of statusline.jsonl is the rate-limit percentages, not cost. This is why CC Dashboard for Claude Code uses cost data computed from ~/.claude/projects/ combined with the 5-hour and 1-week rate-limit percentages from statusline.jsonl.

Project Path Decoding

Directory names like -home-user-workspace-test decode to /home/user/workspace/test.

Screenshots

Terminal

Statusline Analysis (ccost sl)

HTML Report

Development

cargo test             # run all tests
cargo build --release  # optimized build
cargo run -- --help    # CLI help

License

MIT