SpendBar
Track AI API spend from your Mac menu bar
SpendBar launched on June 12, 2026 with 16 votes, #956 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
SpendBar is a native macOS menu bar app for tracking Anthropic and OpenAI API spend before the invoice surprises you. Set a budget, see provider costs separately or as one “All AI” total. Keep everything local: keys in macOS Keychain, spend data on your Mac, no account, no analytics, no backend.
SpendBar is a macOS menu bar app that shows your Anthropic and OpenAI API spend against a budget you set. Everything stays on your Mac.
SpendBar shows Anthropic and OpenAI API spend in your Mac menu bar, including an "All AI" total that adds both org costs before the invoice lands. SpendBar tracks pay-as-you-go API usage — the per-token charges billed to your Anthropic or OpenAI organization. It pulls those numbers from each provider's official billing API. You're on ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, or Claude Max . SpendBar can't see those flat-rate plans, and it won't show the 5-hour or weekly usage limits they run on. That data isn't exposed by any public API. You ship with API keys and the meter is running — building products, agents, internal tools, or just experimenting hard. If a line item called "API usage" shows up on your…from spendbar.minilabs.cc
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