Tokenomics

Real-time token usage & cost for OpenCode, split by project, in a live web dashboard.

When opencode starts, this plugin boots a small local web server and opens a dashboard in your browser. It listens to opencode's event stream and shows — live, as you work — how much each project, model, and subagent is spending, with cache-efficiency and savings analysis. It's always-on, real-time, per-project, and in a real UI with charts rather than a one-shot text report.

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What you get

• Live spend — total USD cost, tokens, and API calls, updating in real time over SSE.
• Per-project split — usage is keyed by project root, so every repo you touch is tracked separately, navigable from a searchable, sortable sidebar that scales to hundreds of projects.
• Agents & subagents — child sessions shown as a tree with who (agent), what (title/model), how much (cost/tokens/calls) and how long (wall-clock duration) for each.
• Agent × model — cross-breakdown of which agent spent how much on which provider/model.
• By model — cost and tokens per provider/model.
• Cache efficiency — cache hit rate, and the real money caching saved (counted only where opencode actually billed a per-token cost, so free/self-hosted usage never shows phantom savings).
• Token distribution — fresh input / cache read / output / cache write channels.
• Context breakdown — estimated split of input tokens across system prompt, tool definitions, environment, project tree and custom instructions.
• Tool usage — per tool: call count, failed calls, estimated output tokens, schema size, complexity, total time.
• Skills loaded — which skills were loaded (via the skill tool), how many times, and the tokens of skill content pulled into context.
• Reliability — errored assistant messages and provider retries, rolled up per model, per session and overall.
• Charts — cumulative spend, spend over time stacked by model, tokens by day (by channel), activity by hour of day, and cost efficiency ($/M tokens) per model.
• Configurable cards — a settings panel (gear, top-right) toggles every card on/off and saves to ~/.config/opencode/tokenomics.json. Hidden cards are also skipped in computation, so heavy views don't tax low-resource machines. Everything starts on.
• Real vs estimated cost — "Spend" is always what opencode actually bills (so a free model reads $0/free, never phantom spend). On subscription/zen plans that report cost: 0, a clearly labeled ~$x / "≈ at API rates" estimate is shown alongside so you still gauge API-equivalent value.

How it works

opencode (Bun)                          your browser
┌───────────────────────────┐          ┌─────────────────────────────┐
│ plugin (src/plugin)       │   SSE    │ dashboard (Vite+React+      │
│  events → aggregator      │ ───────► │  shadcn/ui + recharts)      │
│  per-project snapshots    │  /api/   │  KPIs · charts · tree       │
│  Bun.serve on :5757 ──────┼──────────┤  served from dashboard/dist │
└──────────┬────────────────┘          └─────────────────────────────┘
           │ persists snapshots to ~/.local/share/opencode/tokenomics
           ▼
   projects/<key>.json   ← also read/merged across opencode windows

• The plugin translates message.updated (assistant billing), session.created/updated (subagent tree), and tool/agent message parts into per-project UsageRecords.
• The first opencode instance to grab the port runs the web server; other instances (other projects/windows) act as writers, and their data reaches the dashboard through the shared data directory — so the dashboard shows all your projects at once.
• Costs come straight from opencode when available; otherwise they're estimated from pricing.ts (override in ~/.local/share/opencode/tokenomics/pricing.json).

Installation

From npm

Add the package to the plugin array in your OpenCode config at ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json:

{
  "plugin": ["@aeondave/opencode-tokenomics@latest"]
}

OpenCode installs the plugin and its dependencies automatically on the next start. To pin a version, replace @latest with a specific version (e.g. @0.1.0). The published package ships the built dashboard, so nothing else is needed — restart OpenCode and it opens the dashboard.

From source (git clone)

Run from a local checkout — useful before publishing or while hacking on the plugin.

Clone the repository and install dependencies (plugin + dashboard), then build the dashboard once (the plugin serves the built assets from dashboard/dist):

git clone https://github.com/AeonDave/opencode-tokenomics.git
cd opencode-tokenomics
bun install
npm --prefix dashboard install
npm run dashboard:build      # outputs dashboard/dist

Create a shim file in your global plugin directory that re-exports the checkout's entry point. The directory is plugin (singular):

• Path: ~/.config/opencode/plugin/tokenomics.ts
• Content — a single line pointing at the absolute path of the cloned entry point:

export { default } from "/absolute/path/to/opencode-tokenomics/src/plugin/index.ts"

On Windows, use forward slashes and include the drive letter:

export { default } from "C:/opencode-tokenomics/src/plugin/index.ts"

Restart OpenCode. On startup it prints [tokenomics] live dashboard → http://localhost:5757 and opens it. The plugin loads from your working tree, so edits to src/ take effect on the next restart. Delete the shim file to uninstall. Until you build the dashboard, a built-in live page is served instead (same data, fewer charts).

Use one method at a time. If you add the npm entry, remove the local shim (and vice versa) to avoid loading the plugin twice.

Dashboard development

npm --prefix dashboard run dev   # Vite dev server on :5173, proxies /api → :5757

Run opencode (so the plugin server is up on :5757), then open the Vite dev URL for hot reload.

Configuration (environment variables)

Variable	Default	Purpose
OPENCODE_TOKENOMICS_PORT	5757	Preferred web server port (auto-scans upward if busy)
OPENCODE_TOKENOMICS_DIR	~/.local/share/opencode/tokenomics	Data directory
OPENCODE_TOKENOMICS_OPEN	(on)	Set to 0 to not auto-open the browser

The port is a preferred starting point: if it's taken by another server (e.g. another plugin), tokenomics scans upward to the next free port and opens the browser there. A second opencode window detects the running tokenomics server and shares it (one dashboard, all projects) instead of starting a duplicate.

pricing.json in the data dir overrides per-model rates (USD per 1M tokens):

{ "anthropic/claude-opus-4-8": { "input": 5, "output": 25, "cacheRead": 0.5, "cacheWrite": 6.25 } }

Set every rate to 0 to treat a model as free — handy for self-hosted / custom providers whose id doesn't contain free (e.g. a local vLLM model), so they don't show an API-rate estimate.

API

• GET /api/health → { ok: true, service: "opencode-tokenomics" }
• GET /api/stats → merged GlobalSnapshot (all projects)
• GET /api/stream → text/event-stream, pushes the GlobalSnapshot on every change
• GET /api/config → { cards: { <id>: boolean } } (which cards are enabled)
• PUT /api/config → body { cards } — persists the card selection to ~/.config/opencode/tokenomics.json
• DELETE /api/projects/:key · DELETE /api/projects → delete one project's stored data, or all

Notes & limitations

• Per-token cost is taken from opencode when present; the price table is a fallback/estimate.
• Genuinely free models (id contains a free token, e.g. deepseek-v4-flash-free, …:free) are treated as $0 with no estimate — their tokens are still tracked, only the dollar figure is zero.
• The cache-savings figure counts only records opencode actually billed (real cost > 0): it's the difference between paying full input price and the cache-discounted price at table rates. Free, self-hosted and subscription ($0) usage contributes no savings — caching saves no real money there.
• The native input/output/cache/reasoning token channels are exact (straight from opencode). The context breakdown, per-tool output/schema sizes and tool complexity are estimates from a lightweight, dependency-free tokenizer (~chars/4 blended with word count) applied to the system prompt and tool schemas — good for proportions, not billing.

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