The Kardashev scale for your AI coding agent addiction

What it does

Tokscale is a Rust-based CLI tool that reads local data files from a sprawling list of AI coding assistants—Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Codex, and roughly twenty others—to tally your token consumption and estimated costs. It presents the results in a native TUI with daily summaries, per-model breakdowns, and stats, and can upload your totals to a global leaderboard at tokscale.ai. Pricing is calculated using LiteLLM’s live data, including tiered rates and cache discounts.

The interesting bit

The project frames token burn as a Kardashev-scale civilization metric, which is either delightfully nerdy or a red flag about your API bill. The real work isn’t the math; it’s the forensic archaeology of parsing two dozen different local databases, JSON logs, and proprietary session formats without official APIs. A Wrapped 2025 feature turns your annual usage into shareable infographics, because of course it does.

Key highlights

• Supports ~25 clients, from mainstream (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) to niche (OpenClaw, Pi, Kiro, Crush).
• Native Rust TUI with overview, model breakdowns, daily summaries, and stats views.
• Real-time cost estimates via LiteLLM pricing, including cache discounts and tiered models.
• Optional social leaderboard and 3D contributions graph at tokscale.ai.
• Wrapped 2025 generates a personal annual report of your agent usage.

Caveats

• Several clients—Cursor, Trae, Antigravity, and Warp/Oz—require explicit sync steps or API exports rather than reading native local databases directly.
• Zed Agent tracking is limited to hosted models only; external ACP agents are excluded.
• Warp/Oz integration provides aggregate spend and requests, but not per-token transcripts.

Verdict

Grab this if you bill clients by the token, suffer from AI tool FOMO, or want proof that yes, you really did burn through a galaxy’s worth of energy last Tuesday. Skip it if you only use one agent and already know your bill by heart.