# Cursor Cost Tracker — track usage and catch expensive runs before they burn through your quota

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cost-tracker-track-usage-and-catch-expensive-runs-before-they-burn-through-your-quota/172518>\
**Category:** Built for Cursor\
**Tags:** extensions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cost-tracker-track-usage-and-catch-expensive-runs-before-they-burn-through-your-quota/172518 "2026-09-21T14:48:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lukasz\_Zielinski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/lukasz_zielinski/32/121735_2.png) [@Lukasz\_Zielinski](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Lukasz_Zielinski)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2026, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cost-tracker-track-usage-and-catch-expensive-runs-before-they-burn-through-your-quota/172518/1 "2026-09-21T14:48:45Z")

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> **[GitHub - Lukasz0303/cursor-cost-tracker](https://github.com/Lukasz0303/cursor-cost-tracker)**
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I’ve been using Cursor heavily and kept running into the same problem: **it’s difficult to see what’s actually consuming your usage while you’re working.**

You can check the dashboard afterwards, but by then an expensive Agent run has already happened.

So I built **Cursor Cost Tracker** , an open-source extension for Cursor and VS Code.

**The main idea is simple: make Cursor usage visible directly inside the IDE.**

### What it currently does

- **Current + Today** usage directly in the status bar
- Recent queries with **cost + token count**
- Token-spike warnings for unusually expensive requests
- **Monthly cost forecast** — used, forecast, ideal pace and estimated run-out
- **Critical Alert** when a query reaches a configurable token/$ threshold
- **Burn Rate Guard** — warns when your current spending rate suddenly gets too high
- Usage history with cost, tokens, model and request type
- CSV export
- **Optimize** — generates Quick / Balanced / Deep prompts to investigate expensive queries
- **Coding Stats** — coding time, active days, sessions and productivity-related stats

The extension doesn’t try to replace Cursor’s dashboard. The goal is to give you the information **while you’re actually coding** , when it can still be useful.

It’s free and open source:

👉 **Cursor Cost Tracker:**

> **[Open VSX Registry](https://open-vsx.org/extension/lukasz0303/cursor-cost-tracker)**

I’m the developer behind it, so I’d really appreciate feedback from people who use Cursor heavily.

**What usage/cost information do you currently wish Cursor showed directly in the IDE?**

If there are specific metrics or alerts you’d find useful, I’d be interested in adding them.

 ![statistics_dark_2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/0/5/05eaa6a01e5f9b4297a045fae8e0bc04339fecd1.png)

 ![critiacal_alert_1_dark](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/c/d/cd88a60cbf13398f4bb67ce87c429094e54a8363.png)

 ![04-monthly-forecast](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/b/e/be152f0549fdfaed24cfd9ac42f457d129283075.png)

 ![02-burn-rate-guard](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/9/0/90fac600aa541b4a7588843854831fcd9a60323e.png)

 ![01-overview](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/e/d/eddfb188291d40cc250b2908c820d203747b3a46.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-cost-tracker-track-usage-and-catch-expensive-runs-before-they-burn-through-your-quota/172518/3 "2026-10-21T14:49:14Z")

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