How to Check Your Claude Usage on Mac
Anthropic gives you two built-in ways to see how much of your Claude limit you've used, and there's a third option if you'd rather not have to remember to look. Here's all three.
In your browser
Sign in at claude.ai and open your account settings. The Usage section shows your current session and weekly windows as a percentage, plus a countdown to when each resets. That countdown is worth a grain of salt — it doesn't always land exactly on schedule — but the percentage itself is the source of truth every other method here is reading.
In Claude Code
If you use the terminal, running /usage inside a Claude Code session prints your current session and weekly usage without leaving the CLI. Worth knowing: this is the same account-level limit as the browser. Anthropic's own docs state it directly — "Both Pro and Max plans offer usage limits that are shared across Claude and Claude Code, meaning all activity in both tools counts against the same usage limits." A long agent run in the terminal and a long chat in the browser draw from the same pool. (If you're not sure how much bigger that pool is on Max or Team versus Pro, here's the actual multiplier for each.)
Without having to ask
Both of the above have the same limitation: you only see the number when you go looking for it, and by the time you think to look you're often already close to the limit. The alternative is a menu bar app that keeps the number in view continuously and can warn you before you hit it rather than after — there's a comparison of the ones available for Mac, most of which are free.
The one I built, CapMeter, takes this a step further than showing the percentage: it watches how fast you're burning through a session and turns that into a time estimate — "limit in ~1h 18m" — so you can plan around it instead of just watching a number climb. Want to do that math once by hand first? Here's a free calculator that does it.
Split time between Claude and Codex? Here's the same three methods for Codex/ChatGPT usage — CapMeter tracks both accounts side by side in the same popup.