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Developers Cannot Monitor Live AI Token Usage From Their Desktop

AI developers using multiple models have no lightweight ambient way to monitor real-time token consumption without switching to web dashboards. This product announcement pitches a $5 Mac menu bar app as the solution. The market is narrow and the problem, while real, has multiple existing solutions including provider dashboards and CLI tools.

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