tokscale viewer — how devs actually use AI

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How developers actually use AI

Usage over time

$1.00$0.80$0.60$0.40$0.20$0.00

Quick start

Submit your data

One command. Anonymous. No install.

How it works

AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI already track and store your token usage locally on your machine. tokscale reads, aggregates, and submits only the stats anonymously. No API key or actual request/responses are reported.

Claude CodeCursorCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenClawAmpRoo Code

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Quick start

Submit your data

Paste in terminal. Scans local usage, submits anonymously.

How it works

AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI already track and store your token usage locally on your machine. tokscale reads, aggregates, and submits only the stats anonymously. No API key or actual request/responses are reported.

Claude CodeCursorCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenClawAmpRoo CodeKiloQwen CLIKimi CLIOpenCode

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0 Tokens Tracked

0 Contributors

$0.00 Community Spend

Models

opus-4

claude-opus-4

$9.0M · 33.8%

fable-5

claude-fable-5

$4.3M · 16.0%

opus-4-8

claude-opus-4-8

$4.3M · 16.0%

opus-5

claude-opus-5

$4.1M · 15.5%

claude-opus-4-7

$892.9K · 3.3%

claude-opus-4-1

$820.1K · 3.1%

+410 others

+410 others

$3.3M · 12.3%

5.6-sol

gpt-5.6-sol

$9.2M · 64.6%

gpt-5.6-terra

$437.3K · 3.1%

+204 others

$726.5K · 5.1%

big-faizbasha-pickle.40k

$60.5K · 5.6%

umans-glm-5.2

$48.4K · 4.4%

dashscope/glm-5.2

$46.8K · 4.3%

+1795 others

+1795 others

$455.2K · 41.8%

gemini-3-pro-preview

$66.3K · 12.0%

gemini-2.5-pro

$32.6K · 5.9%

+194 others

$22.3K · 4.0%

gemini-3.1-pro-preview

$22.1K · 4.0%

grok-4.6-build

$17.9K · 3.2%

gemini-3.5-flash

$17.4K · 3.1%

+25 others

+25 others

$144.9K · 26.2%

By the numbers

4.2 T

Tokens per developer

Frameworks

$1.00$0.80$0.60$0.40$0.20$0.00

The average vibe coder

Daily tokens

per user / p50 · normalized

879.9M

Jun 9 Sep 3

Daily cost

per user / p50 · normalized

$420.41

Jun 9 Sep 3

Daily messages

per user / p50 · normalized

5.1K

Jun 9 Sep 3

Active users

Active users

Users who submitted data on that day.

Eligible users

Users whose tracked date range covers that day — they could have been active, but may not have synced.

Normalize off

Shows raw active user count as reported.

Normalize on

Scales up by (eligible / active) to estimate what totals would be if everyone synced. Capped at 5×.

eligible

1.5K

Jun 9 Sep 3

Tokens per message

354.9K

Jun 9 Sep 3

Monthly run rate

extrapolated / rolling 30d

$50.8M

Jun 9 Sep 3

Distribution

Per-user monthly cost distribution (log scale)

Quick start

Submit your data

One command. Anonymous. No install.

How it works

AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI already track and store your token usage locally on your machine. tokscale reads, aggregates, and submits only the stats anonymously. No API key or actual request/responses are reported.

Claude CodeCursorCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenClawAmpRoo Code

+ more

Quick start

Submit your data

Paste in terminal. Scans local usage, submits anonymously.

How it works

AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI already track and store your token usage locally on your machine. tokscale reads, aggregates, and submits only the stats anonymously. No API key or actual request/responses are reported.

Claude CodeCursorCodex CLIGemini CLIOpenClawAmpRoo CodeKiloQwen CLIKimi CLIOpenCode

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