Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI spend in real-time)

Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by verdverm on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:05PM (#47380613)

I pay per token using an API (Vertex)

1. Higher limits and quota, goes up with more spend

2. I don't think it gets quant nerf's during busy times, since you are paying directly

3. With Gemini flash + CC prompts, it's nearly as good, so less spend and latency. I don't know how people deal with the delays between turns. I get to iterate much faster for most tasks

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by cortesoft on Saturday March 14, 2026 @04:57PM (#47381091)

I don't seem to have any delays between turns with my Claude subscription, so not sure what you mean there.

Your second point seems like a guess.

For your first point, I bumped to the $100 plan because i was hitting limits with the $20 one, but haven't hit the limit with the new one yet...

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Re:Claudetop – htop for Claude Code sessions (see your AI sp... by verdverm on Sunday March 15, 2026 @04:03PM (#47391294)

I mean the 10-30s to wait for a frontier model to respond when the lite/flash models are just fine for almost all tasks

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