Rudel

Rudel

Opaline · Coding

Rudel is an analytics layer for Claude Code and Codex that ingests your session transcripts and turns them into dashboards and "Wrapped"-style recaps. Instead of guessing where your AI coding hours went, you get a shared workspace that shows model usage, token volume, estimated spend, and the story behind each session. It's built for teams who run coding agents every day and want to understand what those agents actually did.

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About Rudel

What Is Rudel

Rudel collects the transcripts your coding agents already produce and reconstructs them into something readable. Every Claude Code and Codex session becomes a timeline you can browse: prompts, responses, tool calls, commands, and subagent activity in the order they happened. The point isn't raw logs. It's seeing how work actually unfolded so you can spot blockers, repeated failures, and patterns worth fixing.

It started as a lighter, fun idea. That original angle mattered. According to the developer, the first Product Hunt launch on May 4, 2026 framed Rudel around "trading cards" for your coding sessions, a playful recap of how you used your agents. That Wrapped-style angle is still part of the product, but the tool has since grown into a proper team analytics platform. The developer now ships it under the Opaline name, with an open-source CLI that connects local sessions to the hosted app.

The biggest limit is scope. Rudel only understands Claude Code and Codex right now. If your team runs Cursor, Gemini CLI, or Copilot, those sessions don't show up. You also need to install the CLI and approve uploads, so it isn't a set-and-forget background service. For privacy-sensitive teams, the free and Basic plans push transcripts to Opaline's cloud, and only the Enterprise tier lets you keep session data inside infrastructure your own organization controls.

Getting Started

  1. Run npx opaline@latest from any directory. Node.js 20 or newer is required, and there's no global install.
  2. Pick the repositories you want to track. The picker groups local Claude Code and Codex sessions by repo and shows how many are local versus already uploaded.
  3. Press Enter to review your selection, then Enter to confirm. Opaline sets up hooks for the enabled repositories.
  4. Sign in through your browser when prompted and choose a workspace. Existing sessions upload, and future ones sync on their own.
  5. Open the workspace's Sessions page to start browsing timelines, usage, and cost data.

Product Information

A quick look at Rudel's pricing, supported platforms, and performance.

Free PlanYes
Paid Plans$0 - $21/member/mo
PlatformWeb, CLI (macOS, Linux, Windows via Node.js 20+)
DeveloperOpaline
CategoryCoding
Release DateMay 2026
Latest UpdatedAug 2026
Website VisitsN/A
Website Global RankN/A
API AvailabilityNo

Best for

The users, tasks, and scenarios where this tool fits best.

Users

  • Engineering team leads
  • Engineering managers watching AI spend
  • Platform and DevEx teams

Tasks

  • Auditing a single session
  • Tracking adoption over time
  • Estimating AI coding costs

Scenarios

  • A new developer struggling with the agent
  • Quarterly review of AI tooling
  • Debugging a run that produced bad output

Key features

Session Transcript Analytics

Rudel's core idea is simple: your coding agents already write down everything they do, so why not read it back properly? It ingests Claude Code and Codex session transcripts and turns each one into a browsable timeline. You can follow prompts, responses, tool calls, commands, and subagent activity in the order they occurred, which makes it far easier to see exactly where and why a long agent run went sideways instead of scrolling through raw log files by hand.

Wrapped-Style Session Recaps

The product's original hook was a playful one, framed around "trading cards" for your coding sessions. Rudel keeps that spirit with recaps that summarize how you've used your agents, which model did the heavy lifting, and where the effort went. It's a lighter way to look at your own habits before you dig into the full dashboards. Fun first, useful second.

Team Workspace and Adoption View

Rudel is built around a shared workspace, not a single developer's terminal. Once sessions sync, the team can browse activity across repositories and see coding-agent adoption, activity, token volume, and estimated spend in one place. For leads, that means a real answer. Is the team actually using these tools, and what is it costing us? A guess won't survive a budget meeting.

Deep Session Trace Viewer

Every session opens into a full trace: prompts, responses, tool calls, commands, and subagent activity in sequence. That level of detail matters. When something goes wrong and you need to reconstruct the reasoning, a summary won't cut it. Rather than reading a summary, you walk the actual path the agent took, which is usually where you find the prompt or file that caused the problem.

Repository-Level Syncing

The CLI organizer groups sessions by repository, including work from Git worktrees, and shows local versus uploaded counts side by side so you can see at a glance what has already made it into the workspace and what still lives only on someone's laptop. You decide which repositories sync. Sessions already uploaded are skipped, so re-running setup doesn't create duplicates. It's a deliberately narrow control surface, and that's the point.

Advanced Session Intelligence

On the paid tiers, Rudel surfaces recurring patterns, blockers, and failures across an organization's sessions. Instead of reading sessions one at a time, you look for the friction that keeps showing up. The weekly digest is the lighter version of the same idea, a regular report on adoption, performance changes, and notable sessions.

Self-Hosted and Enterprise Controls

The Enterprise tier adds on-prem or self-hosted deployment, invoice and PO billing, SAML and SCIM, granular admin controls, and migration support. That's the tier aimed at organizations that can't send session data to a third-party cloud. For everyone else, the cloud workspace is the default path.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Turns existing Claude Code and Codex transcripts into readable dashboards with no extra logging setup.
  • Free tier is genuinely usable, covering up to three workspace members and 50,000 agent runs a month.
  • The open-source CLI is MIT licensed and runs through a single `npx` command, so setup stays short.
  • Cost and token tracking gives teams a concrete number for AI coding spend.
  • Enterprise path includes self-hosted deployment for teams that won't use a public cloud.

Cons

  • Only supports Claude Code and Codex. Teams running Cursor, Gemini CLI, or Copilot get nothing.
  • Requires installing a CLI and approving uploads, so it isn't fully automatic out of the box.
  • Session data goes to Opaline's cloud on free and paid plans, and self-hosting sits behind the Enterprise tier.
  • Pricing is per member and billed yearly, which adds up for larger teams.

Frequently asked questions

Rudel turns your Claude Code and Codex session transcripts into dashboards and recaps about agent usage, token volume, and estimated cost. It's mainly a way for teams to see how their coding agents are being used and where developers get stuck. It doesn't write code or run agents itself.

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