Jake Lawrence on Nostr: Loved Simon Willison's Claude token counter, so I built my own for this site with one ...
Loved Simon Willison's Claude token counter, so I built my own for this site with one change: no API key to paste. It counts tokens in text and images, then shows the cost and how much of the context window you're using. No key, no waiting.
https://www.jakelawrence.xyz/blog/claude-token-counterPublished at
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