Data month 2026-09

Usage Monitor for Claude

Name: Usage Monitor for Claude
Author: Invent

General AI

AI Assistant / Chatbot

InventSee your Claude.ai usage as a badge on your toolbar, like Gmail's unread count. Unofficial.

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According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension Usage Monitor for Claude has 34 users (-15% MoM) — ranked #6,250 of 9,324 AI browser extensions, and #1,579 of 2,418 in General AI.

Users · 2026-09

34-15%

Rating

Overall Rank (9,324)

#6,250

General AI Rank

#1,579/ 2,418

What is Usage Monitor for Claude

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See your Claude.ai usage as a badge on your toolbar, like Gmail's unread count. Unofficial. See your Claude.ai usage at a glance — right on your browser toolbar.

Claude Monitor displays your current usage percentage as a colored badge on the extension icon, just like Gmail shows unread email count. No more opening claude.ai/settings/usage every few hours to check if you're about to hit your limit.

━━━ FEATURES ━━━

🔢 USAGE BADGE See your current usage % directly on the toolbar icon. The badge color changes based on how close you are to your limit: 🟢 Green — usage under 70% (safe) 🟡 Yellow — usage at 70%+ (warning) 🔴 Red — usage at 90%+ (critical)

📊 DETAILED BREAKDOWN Click the icon to see all your usage windows in one popup:

5-Hour Session usage
Weekly (All Models)
Weekly (Sonnet / Opus)
Reset countdown for each window
Plan detection (Free / Pro / Max / Team / Enterprise)

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🚨 ANTHROPIC SERVICE STATUS Live status from status.claude.com — see at a glance whether Claude.ai, Claude API, and Claude Code are operational. Get notified instantly when a new incident is reported.

🔔 SMART NOTIFICATIONS

Threshold alerts when usage crosses your warn or critical level
Incident alerts when Anthropic reports a new outage
Configurable on/off

⏱️ AUTO-REFRESH Updates every minute by default (configurable 1–60 minutes). Always shows current data without you having to refresh manually.

🔐 PRIVACY & SECURITY

Uses your existing Claude.ai browser session — no API keys, no passwords, no cookies to copy
Only communicates with claude.ai and status.claude.com
No data ever sent to any third-party server
No analytics, no tracking, no ads

⚙️ CUSTOMIZABLE

Set your own warn / critical thresholds
Choose refresh interval
Toggle threshold and incident notifications independently
Light/dark mode follows your system preference

━━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━━

1. Install the extension 2. Log in to claude.ai (if you aren't already) 3. Click the icon → "Open Usage Page" once so the extension can detect your plan's endpoint 4. That's it — the badge updates automatically every minute

━━━ SUPPORTED PLANS ━━━

Works with all Claude.ai plans: Free, Pro, Max (1x/5x/20x), Team, and Enterprise.

━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━

storage — save your settings locally
alarms — schedule the auto-refresh timer
notifications — alert you on threshold/incident events
claude.ai access — read your usage data (using your existing browser session)
status.claude.com access — read public service status

The extension runs entirely on your machine. Source-available and verifiable.

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Disclaimer: Claude Monitor is an unofficial tool not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. "Claude" and "Anthropic" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC.