Changelog

Date: 2026-09-01

The editor setup panel on the Claude routing page was mostly instructions, and they stayed on screen long after setup was done. It now shows the state of each editor first, and tells you when one is quietly spending its own Claude account instead of yours.

Improved

• The editor panel is a status list, not a wall of setup steps. One line per editor you have installed, showing whether AIMeter is actually routing it. The setup instructions moved behind a link, since you only need them once.
• Editor status now says whose quota is being spent. An editor pointed at AIMeter but not actually being routed used to read "Configured", which sounds like you are covered. It now reads "Not routing" and says why, because in that state the editor is billing its own Claude account rather than the one you picked.

Install

Download AIMeter-v2.57.2.zip below, unzip, and drag AIMeter to Applications. Existing users get this update automatically via the in-app updater.

Date: 2026-08-31

Updates now finish themselves. Until now, a downloaded update only took effect the next time you quit AIMeter — which for a menubar app could be days, leaving you running an old version without knowing it.

Improved

• Updates apply automatically once you're idle. When a newer version is sitting installed but not yet running, AIMeter quietly restarts into it — only when nothing is using it: no AI traffic through its routing in the last 10 minutes and no window open. No notification, nothing to click; it just stays current.

Fixed

• Account borrowing could silently stop applying until the app was restarted. If you pointed a profile at another account's quota while an older version was still the one running, requests could keep using the original account. The automatic restart above removes the way this happened, and borrowing decisions are now traceable.

Install

Download AIMeter-v2.57.1.zip below, unzip, and drag AIMeter to Applications. Existing users get this update automatically via the in-app updater.

Date: 2026-08-27

The Updates page is now something you can actually look things up in: release history is grouped by version, searchable by what you remember, filterable by what changed, and dated.

New

• Release history is grouped and collapsible. Instead of one long list of every release, versions are grouped (2.56, 2.55, and so on) and collapsed by default. AIMeter opens the group containing the version you are running.
• Search your release history. Type anything — "routing", "codex", a version number — and AIMeter searches the full text of every release note, not just the headline. It finds the release that mentions what you typed.
• Filter by what changed. Show only new features, only improvements, or only fixes.
• Every release now shows its date, with a date range on each version group, so you can find the one from last week without knowing its number.
• Release notes open in place. Tapping a release expands it in the list instead of opening a separate window, and you can have several open at once to compare them.
• Your current version is marked with a badge, so it is obvious where you are in the history.

Fixed

• AIMeter 2.56.6 was missing from the Updates page, and its "What's New" window never appeared after updating. The notes for that release are now included, and AIMeter checks that a release's notes ship with the app so this cannot happen again.
• Release summaries now describe the release. Each row previously showed whichever line happened to be first in the notes — usually a bug fix, even for releases that were mostly new features. Rows now show the release's actual summary.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.57.0.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

The Claude Wrappers list no longer gets cut off on the right at smaller window sizes — the Open buttons stay reachable.

Fixed

• Claude Wrappers list — at smaller dashboard window sizes the list no longer clips on the right, so the Open buttons stay reachable.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.56.6.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

Small visual fixes: the bridge-helper update switch now looks like every other switch, that panel reports it is current instead of showing an update error, and Ollama has its own sidebar icon.

Fixed

• Bridge helper update switch — it now matches every other switch in the app (compact, same colour) and is labelled so it is clear what it controls.
• Bridge helper status — AIMeter can now see its curated helper updates, so that panel no longer shows an update error. It just reports the helper is already current.
• Ollama sidebar icon — Ollama now shows its own icon in the sidebar instead of a generic shape.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.56.5.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

Save named model setups on wrapper providers, and pick up new Codex models without waiting for an app update.

New

• Model presets — on MiniMax, OpenRouter, GLM, and other Claude-wrapper providers, save more than one set of model names (for example GLM-5.1 vs a lighter model) and switch between them from a dropdown. You no longer need a second copy of the same provider just to swap models.
• Codex models stay current — the Codex model list now comes from Codex itself, so newly advertised models and thinking levels show up after a refresh instead of waiting for an AIMeter update.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.56.4.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

A small but important update fixing three sign-in problems.

Fixed

• Codex accounts added from the dashboard could stop working with endless "401" errors after a while, with no warning shown. Accounts are now connected through the standard ChatGPT sign-in in your browser, and if a session does expire, AIMeter tells you clearly instead of failing silently. If you hit this before: sign out of the Codex account in AIMeter and sign in again once.
• Clicking "Sign in to Claude" from the menu bar popover sometimes appeared to do nothing — the sign-in window was opening behind your other windows. It now comes to the front, and you can cancel a stuck sign-in attempt and try again.
• Claude usage could show as empty for people whose account belongs to more than one workspace (for example a team plus a personal plan). AIMeter now connects all of your workspaces and starts on the one you actually use on claude.ai. If your Claude quota was blank: sign out and sign in again once.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.56.3.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

A focused update with one pricing fix.

Fixed

• DeepSeek's weekend pricing is now correct — DeepSeek recently changed their rules so weekends bill at the cheaper off-peak rate all day, and AIMeter's popover and provider page now reflect that instead of still showing peak pricing on weekends.

Install

• Download AIMeter-v2.56.2.zip, unzip, and move AIMeter.app to /Applications.
• First launch: right-click the app and choose Open to clear Gatekeeper.

# AIMeter v2.56.1

Improved

• AIMeter updates now reach your open terminals automatically. Previously, routing changes from an app update only applied after you opened a new terminal tab — now they take effect on your very next claude command, with a small notice letting you know the update kicked in.

Note

• One last time: terminals opened before this update still need a fresh tab (or source ~/.claude/aimeter/shell-init.sh) to pick it up. From this version onward that's never needed again.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter v2.56.0

New

• Changing your default Claude account now takes effect immediately in every open terminal and editor session — no restart needed. Previously, a session kept using whichever account was default when it started, even after you switched.

Improved

• Auto-borrow now works the way you'd expect in long-running sessions: when your account's quota runs out it borrows from your chosen donor, and the moment your own quota resets, running sessions return to your account automatically.
• The Active Sessions list now shows "Default → account" for sessions on the default route, updating live when you switch defaults — so you always know which account a session is really using.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter v2.55.4

Fixed

• The default Claude profile can now borrow another profile's token when its own quota runs out. Previously, choosing a donor in Edit Profile looked accepted but was silently never saved, and auto-borrow never kicked in for the default profile. Any profile can now borrow from any other profile that has its own token.
• Picking a donor profile is easier: the whole row is clickable now, not just the small icon at its edge.
• When no other profile has its own token to lend, the borrow option is now clearly disabled with an explanation instead of showing an empty picker.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter v2.55.3

Fixed

• Pasting a screenshot you copied as a file (⌘C in Finder, or dragged from the screenshot thumbnail) into the feedback / bug-report dialog now attaches the image — previously the file's name was pasted into the text field instead. Clipboard screenshots and normal text pastes are unaffected.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter v2.55.2

Fixed

• Pasting a screenshot into the feedback / bug-report dialog with ⌘V now works every time — previously the paste silently did nothing whenever the cursor was still in a text field, which made attaching screenshots feel random. Reaching the 3-image limit now shows a message instead of doing nothing.
• Closing the feedback dialog with Escape, Cancel, or ✕ now asks for confirmation when you have typed something, so one stray keypress can no longer throw away your whole draft.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.55.1

A small fix for anyone running more than one Codex account.

Fixed

• With two Codex accounts, selecting one whose session had expired made Codex disappear from the dashboard sidebar entirely — leaving no way to reach the Codex page to sign in again. Codex now stays in the sidebar as long as any account is added, so you can always get to it to re-sign-in or switch accounts.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.55.0

The helper behind Claudex and Antigravity routing can now update itself, without waiting for an AIMeter release.

New

• The bridge helper updates itself. The Codex and Antigravity pages show which version is running, with a Check now button and an optional auto-update (off by default). This release also bundles a much newer helper.

Fixed

• VS Code and Cursor routing could report itself configured while the editor still used an old value. Configure and Remove now handle every copy of the setting.
• A connection that drops mid-answer now says so, instead of ending as though the answer had finished.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.54.0

DeepSeek is changing its prices on 16 August. This release makes sure you can see when you are paying double.

New

• DeepSeek peak-hour pricing, visible before it costs you. From 16 August DeepSeek charges double during two windows every day. AIMeter now shows whether you are inside a peak window right now and when the current one ends — in the menubar panel and on the DeepSeek page — with the windows written in your own timezone, so there is nothing to convert. Until the new prices actually start, both places say so and keep showing the rate you are being charged today.

Fixed

• "Needs attention" on the Overview could miss an account that was nearly out. It judged whichever usage figure the row happened to be showing, so an account sitting at 96% of its weekly limit could still read "All clear" when its 5-hour usage was low. It now judges each provider's worst limit, and uses the warning levels you set rather than fixed ones.
• A few controls could not be reached with VoiceOver. Some tappable cards and status banners on the provider pages were not announced as controls. They are now.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.6

A small fix release for colour accuracy.

Fixed

• Copied snapshots of the menubar panel now look like the panel. Tinted badges and pills came out noticeably darker and washed out next to a normal macOS screenshot, and the copied image had square corners and no edge. Snapshots are now rendered the same way the system draws the panel, and keep its rounded corners and border.
• Claude and DeepSeek used the wrong brand colour in a few places. The tab bar, the sidebar icon, onboarding and the monthly recap image drew Claude in a slightly different orange, and DeepSeek in a slightly different blue, than their own provider pages. Every provider now takes its colour from one place.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.5

A fix release for the Codex quota panel.

Fixed

• Switching between Codex accounts updates the quota straight away. With more than one ChatGPT account signed in, picking a different one left the panel showing the previous account's numbers until you closed the menu and opened it again. It now clears and reloads the moment you switch — and a reading that was already on its way for the old account can no longer land on the new one.
• The weekly Codex window is readable again. A reset six days out was shown as a running clock like 164:12:33, with a time underneath and no day attached, so you had to work out for yourself whether that meant next week. Long windows now count down in days and hours, and the reset line names the day unless it falls today. Short windows keep the second-by-second clock.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.4

A fix release for adding a second ChatGPT (Codex) account.

Fixed

• The Codex "Add account" button no longer gets stuck greyed out. If a sign-in window ended up somewhere you could not see it — another Space, another display, or behind the dashboard — every "Add account" and "Sign in" button for Codex stopped working, with nothing on screen to say why. Tapping the button now brings that sign-in window back to the front instead, and while a sign-in is running you get a "Signing in…" indicator with a Cancel button next to it. Cancel now really does stop the sign-in, whichever way you started it.

New

• Copy sign-in link, for adding a second ChatGPT account. Signing in opens your default browser, which is usually already logged into your first account. You can now copy the sign-in link and paste it into a different browser — or a different browser profile — and finish signing in there. That is how you add a second Codex account without logging out of the first.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.3

A small fix release for Claude routing and Codex free-plan quota.

Fixed

• You can change your default Claude account again. Once a profile was set as default, AIMeter treated it as permanent — the Routing page and edit dialog would not move the default to another account. You can now pick a new default from the account menu or when editing a profile; the previous default simply becomes a normal account.
• Codex free-plan quota no longer looks “live” when it is not. After a Plus plan lapses to free, Codex only has one real window, but AIMeter still showed old 5-hour and weekly figures and kept painting them as current for days. Free-plan usage is labeled correctly for the window Codex actually reports, and figures that are too old are marked stale or dropped instead of shown as live.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.2

OpenCode Go stops showing quota you no longer have.

Fixed

• OpenCode Go kept showing your old quota after a subscription ended. When a Go subscription lapses, OpenCode's page stops reporting usage altogether — and AIMeter read that as a temporary glitch, quietly keeping the last numbers it had seen. A reading from weeks earlier could still be sitting on your dashboard, menubar and sidebar as though it were current. AIMeter now recognises a lapsed subscription and says so plainly, with a link to resubscribe. Your saved sign-in is kept, so there is nothing to re-enter — tracking picks back up on the next refresh.
• Out-of-date OpenCode Go figures are now marked, not passed off as live. If OpenCode stops returning usage for a while, the numbers are flagged as stale instead of shown as current, and once they are too old to trust AIMeter stops showing them at all rather than displaying a figure it cannot stand behind.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.1

Grok's usage shows up again after a weekly reset.

Fixed

• Grok showed no usage at all once its weekly allowance reset. When Grok's weekly window rolled over and usage went back to zero, AIMeter could no longer read the number — so the Grok tab sat empty with dashes instead of your quota, and signing in again didn't help, because signing in was never the problem. Your weekly percentage, reset date and per-model limits are all back.

Worth knowing: straight after a weekly reset Grok genuinely reads 0% — that is your real usage, not a blank.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.53.0

AIMeter now stops hammering a provider once its sign-in has genuinely stopped working.

New

• When a provider rejects your sign-in, AIMeter stops checking it — and tells you. Until now it kept calling that provider on the normal schedule, over and over, long after the credential had stopped working. Now it backs off to an occasional check, sends you one notification, and the provider's tab says checks are paused until you reconnect. A brief outage or a blocked request doesn't count — only a genuine, final rejection pauses anything.
• Your account is never thrown away when this happens. Pausing is not disconnecting: AIMeter keeps the account exactly where it was, and only you can remove it. Reconnect, hit Refresh, or simply come back online and checking resumes straight away.

Improved

• Claude's expired-session banner now has the retry button it was missing.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.52.0

One-click setup for Claude Code in VS Code and Cursor — and an honest answer to "is routing actually on?"

New

• Set up Claude Code routing in your editor with one click. Using Claude Code inside VS Code or Cursor used to mean opening your editor's settings file and pasting a line in by hand. Now there's a Configure button next to each editor AIMeter finds. Click it and you're done.
• Remove it just as easily. A Remove button strips the setting back out when you stop using AIMeter, so nothing is left behind pointing at a launcher that isn't there any more. Your other settings, and any comments in that file, are left exactly as they were.

Improved

• Your editor now shows whether routing is actually happening, not just whether it's set up. Green means AIMeter is routing that editor's Claude Code sessions. Amber means the setting is in place but AIMeter isn't routing right now — so the editor is quietly using its own Claude account instead. That difference used to be invisible.
• The manual copy-and-paste instructions are still there if you'd rather do it yourself.

Fixed

• Editor settings files that use Windows-style line endings are handled correctly. In that case the setup could previously write a malformed line, which would make your editor ignore the whole settings file.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.51.1

A clearer message when Claude routing falls back to your subscription.

Improved

• When `claude` falls back to your Claude subscription, AIMeter now tells you why. Before, it printed one cryptic line for two very different situations. Now it says whether Claude routing simply isn't switched on yet — so you can turn it on in the Claude tab — or whether AIMeter isn't running. Either way it's clear what to do next.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.51.0

Routing is easier to set up, easier to trust, and now works inside VS Code and Cursor.

New

• The Claude routing page walks you through setup. Instead of six panels asking what you want to configure, it now shows one step at a time — connect an account, then switch on terminal routing — and tells you what's left. Once you're set up it collapses into a single line telling you whether routing is actually on.
• Turning on terminal routing is a button. No more pasting a line into your shell config by hand.
• Every folder rule shows what it's really doing. A rule can look configured while doing nothing, which is the most common reason routing "doesn't work". Each rule now says whether it's active, or exactly what's standing in the way.
• Claude Code in VS Code and Cursor can follow your routing. Editors launch Claude their own way and never saw your folder rules or default account. The routing page shows a one-line setting to paste in, and tells you when it's working.
• DeepSeek shows every balance you hold. If your account has both USD and CNY topped up, both now appear — previously only one did. Total spent is shown the same way.

Improved

• Optional things look optional. Folder rules and editor setup only appear once routing works, so it's clear what you actually need to do first.
• Nothing is written into your projects, and no account token is ever handed to your editor.
• Anonymous problem reports arrive with accurate timing, so real problems get diagnosed faster.

Fixed

• The request inspector no longer freezes on large requests. Opening a big captured request could lock the app up completely. It now shows the first part immediately and tells you how much was left out — COPY still copies the whole thing.
• Debug builds no longer count as real installs in anonymous figures.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.50.6

Security and privacy hardening. Nothing changes in how you use the app.

Fixed

• Hardened the local port AIMeter uses to talk to the browser extension. It now accepts only genuine extension requests. Signing in through the extension is unaffected.
• Your usage history is protected against being cleared. A saved row missing a value the app expected could previously cause a provider's entire stored chart history to be discarded on startup. Older rows are now read as-is instead.

Improved

• Anonymous problem reports reveal less and explain more. A wider range of API keys, sign-in responses and session cookies are stripped before anything leaves your Mac, and reports now include the sequence of events leading up to a fault — including after a crash — so real problems get diagnosed and fixed faster.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.50.5

Follow-up fix for Grok Sign-in after Disconnect.

Fixed

• Grok Sign-in with a different Google account — Disconnect no longer leaves the previous Google (or other) sign-in session sticky. Opening Sign-in again starts fully clean, so choosing Sign in with Google does not auto-complete the first account and close the window.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.50.4

A small reliability update for Grok sign-in and a couple of OAuth login edge cases.

Fixed

• Grok Sign-in after Disconnect — disconnecting Grok no longer leaves the previous session sticky. Opening Sign-in again starts clean, so you can log in with a different Grok account instead of the window closing on the old one.
• Codex sign-in teardown — finishing a Codex login is smoother and less likely to stall the app while the callback server shuts down.
• Antigravity sign-in race — fixed a rare crash that could happen if the login callback and timeout fired at the same time.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.

# AIMeter 2.50.3

Background reliability work — nothing changes in how you use the app.

Fixed

• Improved AIMeter's anonymous problem reporting so real faults are spotted and fixed faster. No change to anything you see or do in the app.

Install

Download the release below, open it, and drag AIMeter to your Applications folder.

Existing users: AIMeter updates itself automatically via the built-in updater.