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Usage and budgets

Arcon counts the tokens every session uses and estimates what they would cost. See today and this month at a glance, find the sessions that cost the most, and set a budget that tells you, or pauses the work, when it’s crossed.
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See estimated token cost per session, today and this month, find the sessions that cost the most, and set daily or monthly budgets that notify you or pause sessions.

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Arcon counts the tokens every session uses, and estimates what they’d cost.

See today and this month at a glance, with the last thirty days by agent or by computer.

Find the sessions that cost the most, and the models behind them. Set a daily or a monthly budget.

When it’s crossed, Arcon can notify you, or pause your running sessions. A paused session tells you why. Resume it from the app whenever you’re ready.

Costs are estimates at standard API prices. Subscription plans bill differently, and Arcon always says so. No surprises. Arcon.

What Arcon counts

  • Claude Code, including its sub-agents, and Codex, from what each reports on your computer, plus sessions Arcon starts for you.
  • Token use per session, per model and per hour, priced at standard API rates.
  • Models Arcon has no price for are listed as not priced rather than guessed.

Where to see it

On the phone, More → Usage (Home also shows today’s spend); on the web, Usage. You’ll find:

  • Today and this month, with a bar against your budget when you’ve set one.
  • The last 30 days by agent or by computer (on the web there’s also a table view).
  • Top sessions: the ones that cost the most, and the models behind them.
  • A usage row on each session, with its own token breakdown.

Budgets

  1. Set a daily or a monthly budget

    Open the budget editor from Usage and enter an amount for the day, the month, or both.

  2. Choose what happens when it’s crossed

    Arcon can notify you, or pause your running sessions. A paused session says why, and you resume it from the app whenever you’re ready.

The budget notification opens Usage directly, and past budget alerts are kept so you can see when it happened.

About the estimates

Written for connector 0.12.0 and the current apps.Something unclear or wrong? Tell us