Check what each account has left

pitboard shows how much each account has used of its five-hour and weekly limits, and when each limit resets. Check it before you switch Claude Code or OpenAI’s Codex CLI to another account, to see which one has room.

See usage

App
Command line

pitboard’s item in the menu bar shows the account in use and the limit it is working against, such as work 42%.Click it to open pitboard’s menu. The menu lists every account and puts a check mark beside the one in use. Under each name is a line such as 5-hour 42%, weekly 12%.For bars, reset times and how long each account lasts, choose Open pitboard (Command-0). The pitboard window opens.

The pitboard window, listing each account with a bar for each of its limits, when each resets, and a note on the last Codex switch above them

Run pitboard. It is the same as pitboard status.

pitboard

● personal  [email protected]  signed in
    5h    ██████░░░░   59%  resets in 1h 10m
    week  ███████░░░   73%  resets in 5d 18h
          about 48m left at this rate

○ work      [email protected]  ready · good for 26d 4h
    5h    █░░░░░░░░░   12%  resets in 3h 02m
    week  ████░░░░░░   40%  resets in 2d 4h
          resets in 3h 02m

Once both tools have accounts, the app and the command line list each tool’s accounts under its own heading. Each tool has its own account in use.

Read the lines under each account

App
Command line

What you see	What it means
A check mark in the menu, In Use in the window	The tool is using this account.
5-hour 42%, weekly 12%	The account has used 42% of its five-hour limit and 12% of its weekly limit.
5-hour used up until 22:12	The account has used all of its five-hour limit. The limit resets at 22:12.
A green, orange or red bar	How much of the limit is used: green under 70%, orange from 70%, red from 90%.
About 3h 3m left at this rate	At the rate the account has been used, one of its limits reaches 100% in about 3 hours 3 minutes.
Resets in 3h 2m	At the rate the account has been used, no limit reaches 100% before one of them resets, in 3 hours 2 minutes.
Parked login good for 10 more days	You can switch to the account, and its parked login lasts 10 more days. Codex accounts show no such line, because Codex states no expiry.
Needs signing in again in the menu, Sign In Again in the window	pitboard holds no parked login it can use for the account. See Sign in to an account again.
Not named yet in the menu, the tip Give this account a name in the window	The tool is signed in to an account pitboard has not enrolled. See Add and manage accounts.

What you see	What it means
`●` and `signed in`, or `○`	The tool is using this account, or not.
`ready · good for 26d 4h`	You can switch to the account. Its parked login lasts another 26 days and 4 hours.
`ready` alone	You can switch to the account. Codex accounts show this, because Codex states no expiry.
`ready · expires in 2d 3h · pitboard enroll work --sign-in`	You can switch to the account, but its parked login expires in under 3 days. Run `pitboard renew` to renew it, or the command shown to sign in to it again. To renew parked logins every day, see Keep parked logins alive.
`login expired` or `nothing parked`, then a command	pitboard holds no parked login it can use for the account. Run the command shown, or see Sign in to an account again.
`signed in · not enrolled: pitboard enroll <label>`	The tool is signed in to an account pitboard has not enrolled. Run the command with a label you choose in place of `<label>`.
`5h`, `week`	The five-hour limit and the weekly limit. A limit for one model adds the model’s name.
`██████░░░░ 59%`	How much of the limit is used: green under 70%, yellow from 70%, red from 90%.
`about 48m left at this rate`	At the rate the account has been used, one of its limits reaches 100% in about 48 minutes.
`resets in 3h 02m` on a line of its own, under the limits	At the rate the account has been used, no limit reaches 100% before one of them resets, in 3 hours 2 minutes.

The line on how long an account lasts appears once pitboard has at least three readings of the account, taken over 15 minutes or more. For how it is worked out, see How usage is read.

Read without asking, or ask again

To see the last numbers measured, without asking Anthropic or OpenAI, run:

pitboard status --offline

pitboard asks nothing and renews no parked login. Each account ends with a line such as measured 14:02, 3m ago · read without asking Anthropic. To ask about every account again, even one asked about moments ago, run:

pitboard status --fresh

To do the same in the app, choose Refresh in pitboard’s menu (Command-R). For why numbers can be a few minutes old, see How usage is read.

When the numbers are old

When the command line shows numbers from an earlier reading, it says when they were measured, as in measured 14:02, 3m ago. A line such as from Claude Code, measured 14:02 means the numbers are the ones Claude Code last recorded for the account in use. If pitboard could not get newer numbers, the reason follows, as in measured 14:02, 3m ago · Anthropic could not be reached. The app shows the reason under the account in the window. For what each reason means and what to do, see Troubleshooting. In pitboard’s menu, choose Settings (Command-Comma), then click General. Click the Menu bar shows pop-up menu, then choose one of these:

Choice	What the menu bar shows
Account and usage	The account in use and the limit it is working against, such as work 42%. This is the default.
Usage only	The percentage alone, such as 42%.
Icon only	The speedometer icon alone.

For which limit the percentage follows, see Menu bar app. With accounts of both tools, the menu bar follows whichever of the two accounts in use is closer to running out. To move to an account with room, see Switch accounts.

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How it works

Reference

Check what each account has left

See usage

Read the lines under each account

Read without asking, or ask again

When the numbers are old

Choose what the menu bar shows

​See usage

​Read the lines under each account

​Read without asking, or ask again

​When the numbers are old

​Choose what the menu bar shows

See usage

Read the lines under each account

Read without asking, or ask again

When the numbers are old

Choose what the menu bar shows