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CodeBurn - TUI Dashboard for Tracking AI Coding Tool Token Usage and Costs

·2026.05.10 09:31

Key point

It's a TUI dashboard that tracks and optimizes token usage and costs across 18 AI coding tools including Claude Code and Cursor.

Details

It's a terminal-based (TUI) dashboard that automatically tracks token usage and costs across 18 AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.

With no wrappers, proxies, or API keys required, it calculates costs by reading session data directly from disk, and since all processing runs locally, it offers strong security.

Key features include:

  • Waste pattern detection: The codeburn optimize command automatically detects cost-wasting patterns such as repeated file reads, unused MCP servers, and bloated CLAUDE.md files, and suggests fixes.
  • Model performance comparison: codeburn compare lets you compare one-shot success rate, retry rate, cost per call, and cache hit rate side by side across models.
  • Productivity contribution analysis: codeburn yield links AI sessions with git commits to classify how spending actually contributed to productivity (Productive / Reverted / Abandoned).
  • Task classification and monitoring: It deterministically classifies tasks into 13 categories without any LLM calls, and you can check real-time spending via a macOS menu bar app.

It supports 162 currencies, and its JSON output feature makes it easy to integrate with automation pipelines.

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