Usage for each AI account, in the menu bar

What it shows

• Every account Parallex knows of: yours (your ~/.claude and ~/.codex, once you've used them), each copy or instance with a Claude Code config or Codex home of its own, and each workspace whose identity keeps its own.
• Today: the tokens each account used since midnight. Input, output and cache writes are counted; cache reads aren't.
• The 5-hour window: the tokens used in the window open now, and when it resets. For Codex, when its own log notes how much of its 5-hour limit is used, Parallex shows that share instead.

It's in the menu bar panel, under AI usage, and refreshes once a minute while the panel is open. Show AI usage in Settings hides it.

Where the numbers come from

Only files already on your Mac: Claude Code's transcripts (projects/ in each config folder) and Codex's session logs (sessions/ in each Codex home). Parallex reads the counts in them, a little at a time, keeping the last 30 hours. It makes no network request for this, and reads no cookies, passwords or sign-in tokens.

That makes it an estimate. Chats in the desktop apps aren't in those logs, so they aren't counted, and neither is use from another computer. Parallex works the window out from the first message after the last one closed, as the plans describe it, so the plan's own count can differ. For the plan's own numbers, check in Claude Code or Codex themselves.

What it doesn't do

It never switches accounts, and doesn't suggest moving to another account to get around a plan's limits. It's there so you know where you stand on each account you're entitled to use.

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