spendbar — per-project Claude Code / Codex cost tracking

A small CLI over ccusage that reports your Claude Code (and Codex) token spend grouped by project, broken down by model family, with day-over-day and burst views.

Most numbers come from ccusage, which spendbar runs as a subprocess. Two commands also read your logs directly: hourly scans ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl itself, and codex reads your ~/.codex rollout logs to find which directory each session started in. Everything is processed locally and never uploaded, and spendbar itself opens no network connections. (ccusage may fetch public model-pricing data to compute costs.)

npm install -g spendbar
spendbar alltime

Requires Node 22.12+. Nothing else — no Python, no other runtime.

Commands

spendbar projects [--since D] [--until D]   Per-project × model table (+ Fable cost)
spendbar daily    [--since D] [--until D]   Per-day cost, split by model family
spendbar share    [--since D] [--vs D]      % of spend per project; --vs adds a 2nd window
spendbar compare  --day1 D --day2 D         Two calendar days, per project, side by side
spendbar blocks   [--since D]               Billing blocks + $/hour burn rate
spendbar hourly   [--date D]                Half-hour cost histogram from raw logs (burst finder)
spendbar alltime                            Every project's cost to date + first/last active
spendbar codex    [--since D] [--until D]   Per-project Codex spend (from Codex session logs)
spendbar combined [--since D] [--until D]   Claude + Codex per project in one table (Total$)

projects and daily accept --metric (tokens/cost/both; projects defaults to tokens, daily to cost).

Window options — --since, --until, --vs, --day1, --day2 — accept YYYYMMDD, YYYY-MM-DD, or a relative -3d / -30d (a trailing window from today). hourly --date names a single calendar day and takes YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD only.

Platform support in 0.1.0

This table is about what has actually been run, which is not the same question as which platforms ccusage publishes a binary for (that's the separate table further down).

Platform	0.1.0 status
macOS arm64	Verified — where spendbar is developed, and where its parity suite and package-manager install matrix are executed
macOS x64	Unverified — expected to work; not executed
Linux (x64, arm64)	Unverified — expected to work, same POSIX path semantics; not executed
Windows (x64, arm64)	Experimental — not executed, and one known divergence (below)

Windows caveat. spendbar expands ~ with POSIX semantics on every platform, which is not what Python's ntpath.expanduser does. On Windows that means HOME is consulted first, so if HOME is set to anything other than USERPROFILE, spendbar resolves a different CODEX_HOME and a different project-key prefix than you would expect. Backslash forms (CODEX_HOME=~\.codex) are not expanded at all, and ~user is expanded only when user is the account you are running as — Python resolves any user's home there.

To avoid it, make sure HOME either equals USERPROFILE or is unset, and give CODEX_HOME an absolute path. Setting CODEX_HOME alone is not enough — project-key normalization is derived from HOME separately, so a mismatched HOME still misattributes projects.

Proper Windows path semantics are deferred to the Windows milestone, where they can be built and verified against a real Windows reference rather than guessed at.

ccusage

spendbar depends on ccusage, pinned to an exact version and installed as a regular dependency. It is never fetched at run time: there is no npx fallback, because downloading and executing registry code at the moment your local install is broken is exactly when you least want it. If the dependency cannot be resolved, spendbar says so and stops.

ccusage ships a small JS shim plus a per-platform native binary delivered through optional dependencies, so npm install --omit=optional produces a working shim with no binary. spendbar detects that up front and reports it as an install problem, rather than letting it surface as an opaque subprocess error later.

Platform availability is therefore also bounded by ccusage's own binaries:

	x64	arm64
macOS	✅	✅
Linux	✅	✅
Windows	✅	✅

Anything else (linux-armv7, FreeBSD, …) is refused with a message naming what is supported. On those platforms, install ccusage yourself and point CCUSAGE_CMD at it. A binary existing for a platform is not a claim that spendbar has been run there — see the table above.

Install weight: ~450 KB shim + ~3.1 MB platform binary.

CCUSAGE_CMD overrides the command entirely (e.g. CCUSAGE_CMD="ccusage" for a global install); when set, the bundled dependency is not required at all.

Known wording bug. If CCUSAGE_CMD points at something that cannot be spawned, the error says Install Node.js (node + npx), or set CCUSAGE_CMD…. That wording is inherited verbatim from the Python tool this port must match byte-for-byte. Installing npx is not the remedy — spendbar has no npx fallback. Fix CCUSAGE_CMD, or unset it to use the bundled copy.

Configure your project names (optional)

Out of the box, projects display as their folder name (myapp) for repos under a workspace root, or ~/some/path otherwise. To rename or group projects, create ~/.config/spendbar/config.json:

{
  "workspace_roots": ["Developer", "code", "projects"],
  "renames": {
    "frontend": "My Product",
    "backend": "My Product",
    "~": "misc"
  }
}

• workspace_roots — directory names directly under your home where you keep repos. With "Developer" listed, ~/Developer/myapp shows as myapp. Defaults to ["Developer"].
• renames — map a bare project name to a nicer label; point several at the same label to group them.

Both keys are optional; with no config file at all, spendbar still works and shows bare project names. USAGE_CONFIG=/path/to.json overrides the location.

Good to know (accuracy)

• projects / share / alltime are Claude-Code-only. ccusage can't tag Codex/GPT sessions by project, so they're excluded from these views and undercount total spend. Use spendbar daily or spendbar blocks for Codex-inclusive totals — that's why daily's grand total is larger — spendbar codex for the per-project Codex breakdown, and spendbar combined for Claude + Codex merged per project in one table.
• codex attributes by session-origin cwd and windows by session START date. Each Codex session is attributed to the directory it started in ($CODEX_HOME, default ~/.codex; archived sessions included), and --since/--until filter on the session's start date (from the rollout filename). This avoids ccusage's last-activity bleed, where a long-lived session resumed inside the window would otherwise drag its entire lifetime cost in. Because that start-date basis differs from ccusage codex daily (which buckets by calendar day), each windowed run prints a [session-start $X vs codex daily $Y (Δ $Z)] cross-check — a small Δ means they broadly agree; the residual comes from multi-day sessions (lumped on their start day) and sessions that cross the window edge. Sessions whose filename can't be parsed for a start date are excluded from a window (and the excluded amount is noted). There's also a cwd resolved: N/M coverage line; unresolvable sessions land in an unknown bucket (cost is conserved, never dropped), and Claude Code agent scratchpads (/tmp/claude-<uid>/…) collapse into (agent scratchpads). Still don't compare codex totals 1:1 with daily's Gpt$ column — the two bucket dates differently.
• [totals reconcile: OK] means the per-project sum equals ccusage's own grand total (cost is conserved). It does not independently prove each per-project number — it's a conservation check.
• hourly estimates from raw logs with a flat blended $/token rate, so it's labeled ±10–15%; it's for finding when spikes happened, not exact per-hour dollars.
• Data only goes back as far as your local ~/.claude/projects logs exist.

About this repository

spendbar began as a single Python script, usage.py, which still lives here. It is not shipped in the npm package and is not something you need to run — it is kept frozen as the oracle the TypeScript port is compared against, byte for byte, by a parity suite and a set of stored golden outputs. Deliberate divergences from it are numbered and justified in tests/golden/ALLOWLIST.md.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Acknowledgements

Built on top of ccusage by ryoppippi (open-source, MIT at time of writing), which spendbar runs as a subprocess from its own pinned, locally installed copy — ccusage's source is not bundled or modified here. This project is an independent wrapper, not affiliated with or endorsed by ccusage, Anthropic, or OpenAI. "Claude", "Claude Code", "Codex", and related product names are trademarks of their respective owners.