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hotpath-rs compared with JP the Cat
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What it doesA Rust performance profiler for finding CPU, memory, async, SQL, HTTP, I/O and lock bottlenecks Track token usage and costs for AI coding agents on your Mac
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Pricing modelOpen source Paid
PricingFree and open source under MIT license $12.99 one-time for one Mac; $9.99 per additional Mac. Includes free updates. 7-day free trial with no card required. After trial, the menu-bar cost total stays free; a license unlocks the full dashboard, widget, and alerts.
Key features
  • Time, CPU & memory profiling
  • Async observability for futures, channels and streams
  • I/O monitoring for files, TCP and compression streams
  • SQL query profiling for sqlx and Diesel
  • HTTP calls profiling for reqwest and ureq
  • HTTP server profiling for axum routes
  • Concurrency metrics for Mutex and RwLock
  • Tokio runtime monitoring
  • Prometheus & Grafana integration
  • CI regression detection with automatic benchmarking
  • Real-time menu bar cost display with cache-aware deduplication for Claude
  • Official 5-hour and weekly limit percentages for Codex, Claude, and Grok
  • macOS widget in small, medium, and large sizes
  • 24 themes including Sunlit light and Midnight dark modes
  • Per-provider and per-model cost breakdown dashboard
  • Configurable 7, 14, 30, or 90-day time windows
  • 80% usage alert with native macOS banner and optional meow sound
  • Notarized by Apple and Developer ID signed
  • Local-first design with no data upload to servers
What makes it different
  • No overhead when disabled—all macros compile to no-ops
  • Deterministic instruction counts with Callgrind for stable CI regression checks
  • Instruments real applications with real workloads, not isolated benchmarks
  • MCP server for AI agent integration
  • Live TUI dashboard and static reports
  • Accurate real-dollar costs for Claude with cache awareness, unlike free tools that misprice cache tokens
  • Native Swift app with no Electron, designed for performance and minimal menu bar footprint
  • One-time purchase with free updates, no subscription or account required
  • Completely local data privacy—no prompts, code, or tokens ever leave your Mac
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Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)54 +2 (up) since last check5 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)131
Citation Flow (Majestic)3420
Referring domains (Majestic)15129

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