Griftmeter Runner
Free. See where your AI usage goes.
Griftmeter Runner is a small program for your computer. It reads the usage records Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Copilot and Cursor already keep, and turns them into Reports: what fills your conversations, which models did the work, your priciest prompts, and how close you are to your 5-hour and weekly limits.
Free, with nothing held back
- Reports for today, the last 7, 30 or 90 days, or any range you pick.
- What to do: the few changes that would save you the most, worked out from your own numbers.
- Where you stand on your 5-hour and weekly limits, any time you look.
- Export of all of it.
With a Griftmeter gauge
Runner tells you what happened. A gauge tells you while it is happening.
- The meter itself: a round dial on your desk that always shows where you stand, in a shell you pick.
- Desktop alerts when a conversation gets expensive, your cache goes cold, or the 5-hour limit is coming early.
- A one-line tip in Claude Code, and on its status line, after a costly reply.
Connect a gauge once and these switch on for good on that computer. One gauge covers up to three computers.
What it reads, and what it never does
Runner counts: models, effort, token counts and times. Your prompts, replies and files are never kept, and your numbers never leave home. There is no account, no email, and no tracking.
Install
macOS or Linux, in Terminal:
curl -fsSL https://griftmeter.com/runner/install.sh | sh
Windows, in PowerShell:
irm https://griftmeter.com/runner/install.ps1 | iex
Either line checks the download against its published SHA-256, installs for your user only, and opens Runner when it is done. Prefer an installer? Download one.
What’s new
0.2.10 (2 Nov 2026). Free to use without a gauge: Runner opens on Reports, and no gauge is no longer treated as a fault. A gauge unlocks live alerts on up to three computers. One-line installs for macOS, Linux and Windows. Desktop notifications on Windows. Wi-Fi gauges are found again on Windows computers that run WSL. The shell a gauge is wearing shows up in the picker on every computer it meets.
0.2.8 (27 Oct 2026). Repair buttons for the Claude Code hooks and status line. The Windows installer works on ARM laptops.
0.2.7 (16 Oct 2026). A gauge on USB reconnects after the computer sleeps.
0.2.2 (30 Sep 2026). A Claude Desktop page in Reports, and filters for where the usage came from.
0.2.0 (29 Sep 2026). Reports.