I just published a new open source tool: AI Usage TUI. The picture above tells most of the tail. But in this age of agentic AI coding, you’ll hear many complaints along the lines of:
- Anyone else burning way too many AI credits just to get a decent UI?
- AI Credits expiring within hours
- Did I use up all my Cursor Pro credits for the month?
- AI credits used while I slept!
- Cursor credits draining way faster now??
- How do you use all your credits?
- How to not burn all credits in 4h?
- And so on…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just predict easily how fast your credits are vanishing and if you’re going to run out before your credits reset (typically some fixed day of the month)?
On the glass is half full side of things, if you are going to end up with 50% of your credits unspent and not rolling over, maybe tackle a big project or use a smarter (but more expensive credits-wise) model!
That’s why I created ai usage:
AI Usage 💳
A smart command-line tool for tracking AI credit consumption across billing cycles. Designed for AI-powered development tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other subscription-based AI services.
It’s available on GitHub and PyPI. But I recommend you just install it with uv:
uv tool install aiusage
Run it once with just aiusage on the CLI and it’ll remember your settings (like renewal day) and then you can have it predict your current credit burn-rate.
Read more about it on the README.md for the project.
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