# agentsview

9 Hacker News commenters recommended agentsview and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free open-source tool that reads local coding agent conversation files to show usage, costs and transcripts across agents. Critics say it does not capture the whole picture.

## Why people recommend it

- Usage metrics and cost totals (3 comments): "That should tell me the token total and dollar cost across all of your local coding agents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486042)) "has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381221)) "Try running this command: and see what it thinks you spent at API prices:" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476556))
- Browsable transcripts with search (2 comments): "It reads your local conversation files and provides a ton of visualizations as well as the ability to dig into each conversation" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364877)) "has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381221))
- Clear view across all agents (2 comments): "It can clearly show whats going on across all agents." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147725)) "has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381221))

## What people warn about

- Does not show the whole picture (2 comments): "Unfortunately it's not telling the whole story." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476973)) "agentsview doesn't report on it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477164))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ccusage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ccusage.md): 10 recommend
- [Claude Meter](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-meter.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "agentsview", https://hackerapproved.com/p/agentsview/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).