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Claude Code's /usage Stats tab overstates your tokens ~2x. Reported on GitHub since Aug 2025, still unfixed.

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I trusted the Stats tab enough to build my own tracker on its method. Then I recounted from the raw ~/.claude/projects files: the Stats number is about double, because Claude Code writes one transcript row per content block and each row repeats the whole call's usage. The Usage tab next to it dedup…

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  1. 2026-09-16 11:44 · r/ClaudeAI
    Claude Code's /usage Stats tab overstates your tokens ~2x. Reported on GitHub since Aug 2025, still unfixed.

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