Tokens, cost and limits

desk keeps count of what every session uses, and shows how much of your Claude plan is left.

On the card

A card with a session shows its figures at its foot: the number of turns (beside the star), the tokens and the cost so far.

Six turns, 182k tokens, $1.84.

The session’s header says the same in words, under its links: “6 turns · 182k tokens · $1.84”.

The figures in the session’s header.

• Turns count every time Claude finished answering.
• Tokens add up each turn’s input, cache and output tokens.
• Cost is what Claude Code reports for the session, in dollars, added up over every time its process started.

Context and plan limits

The full window has a strip above the message box with the session’s context and the account’s plan limits, each with a meter.

The meters are green, orange from 70% and red from 90%.

Figure	What it is
Context	The tokens in the session’s context now, out of the model’s window, and how full that is. Until a turn has ended desk may not know the window yet: then it shows the tokens alone.
5h	The plan’s 5-hour session limit: how much of it you’ve used, and when it resets.
7d	The plan’s weekly limit, over every model.
7d <model>	A model’s own weekly limit, when the plan has one (for example 7d Opus).

A reset time shows as a time when it’s within the day, or as a weekday and time.

The limits are the account’s, not the card’s: every session under the same account shows the same. desk asks Claude for them with the account’s login, at most every 3 minutes. If it can’t, the strip shows Limits and the reason.

Tip

Which account a session uses shows in its header, as Claude · <account>. See Accounts to give an organization its own.