# Show HN: CostClaw, a local CLI that finds your Claude Code spend leaks

> Source: <https://www.costclaw.io/>
> Published: 2026-08-05 06:01:40+00:00

~/.claude/projects 1840 sessions · 41 projects · CLAUDE.md found

Recoverable spend $1,284.50 cache-miss exposure

- Spend analyzed
- $6,240.18

- Cache hit
- 95.1%

- Active hours
- 538

Model spend opus 58% / sonnet 33% / haiku 9%

Overall setup score 88 / 100 Tight

- CLAUDE.md quality 78
- Context hygiene 95
- Prompting patterns 92
- Session management 84
- Tool and MCP config 100
- Cost discipline 70

Top fix by recoverable spend

$1,284.50 Recover spend lost to cache misses Keep the start of each session stable so the prompt cache is reused instead of rebuilt.

- $52.40 Use a cheaper model for 61 small sessions
- $18.90 Compact four long sessions that lost the cache
- warn Workflow and subagent runs cost $214
- warn Three projects fire one tool 100+ times per session