See which coding agent still has usage left from your Mac menu bar
Rate-limited across tools, he built Quotchi, a free Mac menu bar app that shows which of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini still has room. It needs no account and never reads your prompts.
Source
@ThomasKanze on X · 2026-10-22
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.
What they did
Rate-limited across tools, he built Quotchi, a free Mac menu bar app that shows which of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini still has room. It needs no account and never reads your prompts.
Result (as claimed)
Out of Claude? He switches to whichever agent still has quota and keeps shipping.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, macOS. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: See which coding agent still has usage left from your Mac menu bar What the original author did: Rate-limited across tools, he built Quotchi, a free Mac menu bar app that shows which of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini still has room. It needs no account and never reads your prompts. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Out of Claude? He switches to whichever agent still has quota and keeps shipping. Source: https://x.com/ThomasKanze/status/2113377655144009897 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: See which coding agent still has usage left from your Mac menu bar What the original author did: Rate-limited across tools, he built Quotchi, a free Mac menu bar app that shows which of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini still has room. It needs no account and never reads your prompts. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Out of Claude? He switches to whichever agent still has quota and keeps shipping. Source: https://x.com/ThomasKanze/status/2113377655144009897 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: See which coding agent still has usage left from your Mac menu bar What the original author did: Rate-limited across tools, he built Quotchi, a free Mac menu bar app that shows which of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini still has room. It needs no account and never reads your prompts. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Out of Claude? He switches to whichever agent still has quota and keeps shipping. Source: https://x.com/ThomasKanze/status/2113377655144009897 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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Guides for this use case
How to vibe code an app with Claude Code · How to build a Mac menu bar app with AI · How to use Claude Code and Codex together · How to build with Gemini 4 Argon and Gemini agents
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