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Claude Code's token usage stats inaccurately doubled, bug persists

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A bug in Claude Code's usage statistics tab has been reported to overstate token usage by approximately double. This issue, which affects the accuracy of the displayed token count rather than billing, has been documented on GitHub multiple times since August 2025 without a resolution. While the usage tab and JSON output correctly deduplicate requests, the main statistics tab appears to count each transcript row individually, leading to inflated numbers. AI

IMPACT Potential confusion for users tracking their token consumption and comparing service costs.

RANK_REASON Bug report about a specific feature in a software product.

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Claude Code's token usage stats inaccurately doubled, bug persists

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Background-Basis-672 ·

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

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>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 t…

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