"How is my OpenClaw agent spending $40 a week? I have no idea which task is responsible."
If you run OpenClaw agents on long autonomous tasks, this scenario is familiar. The agent works in the background, silently burning through API tokens—and you only find out when your billing statement arrives.
The Problem: The Invisible API Meter
Every tool call, every reasoning step, every memory read costs tokens. An agent running overnight can make hundreds of LLM requests across multiple models. Without visibility:
- No early warning: Costs spike before you notice anything is wrong.
- No attribution: You can't tell if the expensive run was a coding task, a research task, or an infinite loop error.
- No trends: You can't see whether costs are growing week over week.
OpenClaw itself doesn't expose a cost dashboard. You're flying blind until you check your Anthropic billing page—after the fact.
The Solution: ClawBridge Token Economy
ClawBridge's Token Economy panel was built to close this gap. It gives you a live, itemized view of your agent's API spending, directly on your mobile device.
1. Real-Time Cost Breakdown by Model
See exactly how many tokens were consumed and what they cost—broken down by model. If you use a mix of Claude Sonnet and Haiku, you'll see each one accounted for separately. No more guessing which model is eating your budget.
2. Daily Usage Trends
The dashboard plots your token consumption over time. A spike on Tuesday immediately stands out—you can connect it to whatever task you ran that day, rather than finding out three weeks later on an invoice.
3. Access It From Your Phone
You don't need to SSH into your server or write custom log-parsing scripts. ClawBridge streams this data directly to your mobile browser. Whether you're on your commute or away from your desk, a quick glance at the Token Economy panel tells you if your agent is running within budget.
A Realistic Scenario
Imagine you launch a research agent on Friday afternoon and leave for the weekend. By Saturday morning, it has iterated through 500 web pages and is still running. Without ClawBridge, you'd return Monday to a surprise bill. With Token Economy, you'd have seen the cost climbing on Saturday, and one tap on Mission Control would have stopped the agent before it burned through another day of compute.
Take Control of Your API Costs
Don't let autonomous agents become a financial liability. Real-time cost visibility is the first step toward responsible AI deployment.
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