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Where your Claude Code tokens actually go. Output is 0.2%.
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Dev.to | Oct 5, 2026 | Manpreet Singh
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Counted, from the transcripts Claude Code already keeps on your machine: every session still on mine, 173 of them, about 60,000 turns. Output (every reply, every line of code Claude wrote, its thinking included) is 56. 6 million tokens. Every time you press enter, Claude Code sends the whole conversation again: the system prompt, the tool definitions, every file it read, every command output, every reply so far, and then your new message.
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