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Show HN: Frugal Tokens – explore costs and usage across coding agents

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles...

Source: Hacker News Newest · demo.frugaltokens.com Published 2026-08-19T17:07:35+00:00 Detected 2026-08-19T17:19:06+00:00
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I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles...

I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on called Frugal Tokens. I originally built it because I was curious to see how much all of my sessions cost and how much cache misses affected that spend. I’d noticed people had widely different spend profiles and wanted to better understand what might contribute to...

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Signal Strength 91% Technical label SOURCE-BACKED Public Interest 37 Category AI AT WORK Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 0 Practical Impact Score 46 Novelty Interest Score 70 Consequence Score 46 Curiosity Score 16 Shareability Score 49

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