How to See What Your OpenClaw AI Assistant Actually Costs Per Conversation

I've been running OpenClaw for a few months — it's become my daily AI assistant across WhatsApp and Telegram, handling emails, research, calendar stuff. It's genuinely great. But at the end of month one, I opened my Anthropic billing dashboard and saw $43. I had no idea where it came from. Which conversations? Which agent? The long research session, or just daily chit-chat? No clue. This is a known issue in the OpenClaw community — there are open feature requests for native token tracking and a CLI usage command that haven't shipped yet. So I went looking for a workaround. The Problem With API Billing Dashboards The Anthropic and OpenAI dashboards show your total spend, but they're aggregated (no per-conversation breakdown), delayed (often 24+ hours behind), and only model-level (you can see "Claude Sonnet cost $31" but not which feature or session drove that). If you're running a personal AI assistant that touches multiple models — Anthropic for complex tasks, a local Ollama model for