agentsview
Ranked 2 of 3 usage trackers by recommenders
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.
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.
10 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 90%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Usage metrics and cost totals
“That should tell me the token total and dollar cost across all of your local coding agents.”
Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive” “has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)” “Try running this command: and see what it thinks you spent at API prices:”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Claude Fable 5” Browsable transcripts with search
“It reads your local conversation files and provides a ton of visualizations as well as the ability to dig into each conversation”
Comment from 19 Aug 2026 in “Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents” “has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)” Clear view across all agents
“It can clearly show whats going on across all agents.”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?” “has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents”
Comment from 3 Jun 2026 in “Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface (desktop, mobile, CLI)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Does not show the whole picture
“Unfortunately it's not telling the whole story.”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Claude Fable 5” “agentsview doesn't report on it”
Comment from 10 Jun 2026 in “Claude Fable 5”
Other usage trackers people recommend
The two most recommended other usage trackers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ccusage | 10 | 1 | 91% | 6 | — | Approved |
| agentsviewThis page | 9 | 1 | 90% | 5 | — | — |
| Claude Meter | 5 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I've used https://github.com/kenn-io/agentsview and found it to be quite sensible.”
“It can clearly show whats going on across all agents.”
“It reads your local conversation files and provides a ton of visualizations as well as the ability to dig into each conversation”
“That should tell me the token total and dollar cost across all of your local coding agents.”
“agentsview doesn't report on it”
“Unfortunately it's not telling the whole story.”
“which makes it much easier to filter by model”
“Try running this command: and see what it thinks you spent at API prices:”
“has usage metrics and nice viewer/search for transcripts from most agents”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.