Comparison
aibill vs tokscale
tokscale is a broad open-source usage product. It supports more than twenty coding-agent clients, an interactive TUI, subscription quota views, contribution graphs, and an optional public leaderboard. If breadth and visualization are the priority, it has the advantage.
aibill treats that number as the starting point, not the answer. It reads your Claude Code and Codex logs the same way — locally, no account — then adds the layers you need to act: API-rate comparison beside plan context, evidence-ranked candidates with approval and matched future-session comparison, hook-aware Context Health, and official provider cost reports kept separate from local estimates when you connect a user-referenced admin credential.
| aibill | tokscale | |
|---|---|---|
| Local agent coverage | Claude Code + Codex | 20+ coding-agent clients |
| Estimates usage at API-equivalent rates | Yes | Yes |
| Interactive TUI and contribution graphs | Terminal receipt + SVG card | Yes |
| Live subscription quota views | Reported windows when exposed + detected/declared plan context | Yes — multiple providers |
| Adds official provider cost reports (user-referenced OpenAI/Anthropic admin credential) | Connector validation: live_verified on non-empty Admin API data; tested OpenAI Costs reconciled to invoiced credits less the UI balance with $0.00 variance. Final invoices remain separate and financial evidence stays labeled per row | Quota display; not independently reconciled |
| Evidence-ranked action candidates | Observed exposure locally; modeled $ only with a source-supported counterfactual | — |
| Context inventory and invocation coverage | Yes — loading/overhead stays unmeasured where the host does not expose it | — |
| Optional public leaderboard | No | Yes — opt-in submission |
| Local-first by default | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | MIT | Yes |
| Install | npx aibill | npx tokscale |
Reviewed against tokscale's documentation on July 28, 2026 — check the tokscale repo for the current feature set. “—” means not a stated focus, not necessarily absent.
aibill's validation labels describe connector coverage, not the financial evidence of every number. Local log values remain estimates even when their reader is live_verified.
Which should you use?
Use tokscale when you want broad tool coverage, live quota views, a TUI, or social usage graphs. Use aibill when the question behind the number is what to do next: what plan evidence exists, what to investigate, and how API-equivalent value compares with detected or declared plan context and provider cost reports. Both are free; trying both takes two npx commands.