Crustat

About Crustat

Andrei Surdu

Hi, I’m Andrei. I built Crustat to keep an eye on my Claude Code usage — and to pace myself before I hit a session limit.

I use Claude Code all day. When a long session is humming, the last thing I want is to get cut off because I quietly burned through my limit. Crustat keeps that one glance away in the menu bar, so I can ease off or tighten up my prompts as I get close — instead of finding out the hard way. I made it for myself first, then polished it enough to share.

How it’s built

It’s deliberately small and local-first: it reads your usage on your own machine and talks only to Anthropic’s API — no accounts, no servers of mine, and no tracking in the app itself.

Connect

If Crustat earns a spot in your menu bar, I’d love to connect on LinkedIn. And if you have an idea or run into a bug, reach out there too — I’m always glad to hear from people who actually use it.

Crustat is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. Anthropic, Claude, and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.