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Puts Claude in your terminal to understand your codebase, edit files and handle git workflows.
80.2M installs/moSEE LICENSE IN README.md
Cost Katana CLI
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Cost Katana CLI is a terminal client for chatting with models such as GPT-4, Claude and Gemini while it tracks what you spend. You can hold a conversation that remembers context, ask one-off questions and save the answer to a file, set a system prompt, and compare the cost, tokens and latency of several models on one prompt. Spending summaries, daily budgets and alerts are included, and cost tracking is always on. It needs a Cost Katana API key, or your own provider keys if you self-host.
Written by ooruby from the README of cost-katana-cli 2.3.3.
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Why it's useful
One command line reaches models from several providers and shows what you spend as you go.
What you could do with it
- Ask a one-off question from the shell and save the answer to a Markdown file.
- Compare the cost, tokens and latency of several models on the same prompt before choosing one for a task.
- Set a daily spending limit, then check the remaining budget and any alerts from the terminal.
Written from its documentation: what it says it can do, not what our checks found.
Maintenance
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- no statement of what it reads, writes or sends (README.md)
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What this does not cover
- Everything. Treat it as you would software from anywhere else.
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In its maker's words
The simplest AI CLI. Chat with any AI model and track costs automatically.
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- What it establishes
- Its published package, or for a hosted server its source repository at a recorded commit, was read file by file, without running it, by every check in our current scan.
- What it does not
- How it behaves when it runs, or anything the scan does not read yet: several rubric checks, the repository's history, and compiled code in folders named dist or build. For a hosted server, that the endpoint runs the code that was read. The ooruby Index sets out exactly what was read.
- Exactly what was read
- Version 2.3.3, the file with digest sha512-rW3+1lreXsQoDu6/jC6QHHkEDi7RfTTlygVPQ0hK67NcUWWsf8DUdMw5doxUdmsTeTrqMjlf/qZtYwrkI3aHhQ==, as the registry publishes it. A published version cannot be replaced, so this names the same bytes for anyone who checks.
- Authentication
- Runs locally. No hosted endpoint is listed for this package. You run it on your own machine, so there is no endpoint of ours to authenticate against.
Adding it
Run it with:
npx -y cost-katana-cli@2.3.3Pinned to 2.3.3, which is the version the findings above were found in. Drop the version to take whatever is newest, and the report on this page stops describing what you installed.
Where this came from
- Registry
- npm
- Package
- cost-katana-cli
- Version read
- 2.3.3
- Resolved
- 2026-10-10
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[](https://ooruby.com/market/cost-katana-cli)About this listing
- Kind
- App
- Category
- Developer tools
- Pricing
- Free
- Sandbox
- No
- Hosted
- No
- Updated
- 2026-10-07
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