dsh-api-balance

If you write code against the DeepSeek API, you know the small ritual: you are mid-thought, you need to know how many tokens you have burned today or how much balance is left, so you alt-tab to the browser, load the dashboard, glance, and come back. dsh-api-balance removes that round-trip. The moment your DSH desktop session launches, a borderless topmost widget appears in the corner of your screen. One click on the amount cycles through three pages: account balance with the day total token count, the dollar amount spent since the daily reset (with live balance beside it), and whether you are inside a peak or a half-price off-peak window plus how long until the next switch. Three views, one click, no tab switch.

The widget is a standalone native window that never steals focus. Drag it anywhere and it remembers the spot across restarts. Seven colour themes work instantly with no restart; you can also drop in your own image as a background with an adjustable scrim so numbers stay legible over bright or busy wallpapers. The close button tucks the window into the system tray while timers keep running, so recalling it shows fresh data. A /balance chat command toggles it on the fly. Rendering is native at 125 and 150 percent scaling, so text stays crisp on high-DPI displays.

The daily window starts at 8 am local time and rolls over 24 hours later, so a late-night coding session is not split in half by midnight. The spending figure is derived from the balance delta: deposits do not subtract from the total, the counter persists across reboots, and it resets at the day boundary. The page labels this clearly, so when the number looks lower than the website billing page, you know why: the API only exposes a balance endpoint, there is no itemised invoice to pull, and the widget only counts what it observes while running. Treat it as a dashboard, not a ledger.

This is for developers who call the DeepSeek API frequently enough to care about a few cents, who want a glance at cost and pricing tier without leaving the keyboard, and who would rather see a little green dot saying off-peak than discover a peak-hour surcharge at the end of the day. It is not a finance tool; it is a small, always-visible instrument pin to your desktop corner.