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Cost-tracking projects on GitHub

Tracking AI and infrastructure usage costs with meters and budgets.

As of , the most-starred Cost-tracking projects on GitHub are mlflow (28.4K stars), CodexBar (22.6K stars) and opcode (22.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 25 Cost-tracking repositories with 172K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was cost-xray, with +206 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+206

cost-xray

tigerless-labs/cost-xray · ★ 5.4K

cost-xray is a local tool that captures the raw API traffic between Claude Code or Codex and their providers, then breaks down exactly what's in each request and what each part costs — system prompts, tool schemas, MCP blocks, cached vs fresh tokens, and more.

+104

ThinkWatch-Lite

ThinkWatchProject/ThinkWatch-Lite · ★ 824

ThinkWatch Lite is a local gateway that sits between AI coding clients (Claude Code, Codex, and others) and their upstream providers, letting you switch providers and models without reconfiguring each client, while tracking request cost and blocking malicious tool calls.

+82

DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget

MeteorNOX/DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget · ★ 5K

A tiny whale mascot widget that sits in the bottom-right corner of the DSH (DeepSeek Harness) web interface, showing your DeepSeek API balance, today's spending, and a popup after every chat turn showing how much that turn cost.

+30

token-monitor

Javis603/token-monitor · ★ 3.1K

A desktop widget that shows live token usage and AI Tool Limits across 44+ AI coding tools - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cherry Studio, and more - with real-time multi-device sync, historical usage trends, and breakdowns by tool, device, model, session, or project.

The all-time top

25 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · mlflow/mlflow

    mlflow

    MLflow is an open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLM apps, and classic ML models: one place to trace, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production AI while controlling costs. It is widely adopted, with over 60 million monthly downloads.

    28.4K
  2. #2 · steipete/CodexBar

    CodexBar

    CodexBar is a tiny macOS 14+ menu bar app that keeps AI coding-provider usage limits visible and shows when each usage window resets, so you can plan long tasks instead of guessing whether you have quota left.

    22.6K
  3. #3 · winfunc/opcode

    opcode

    opcode is an unofficial desktop GUI app and toolkit for Claude Code: it lets you manage coding sessions, custom agents, usage costs, MCP servers and CLAUDE.md files from one visual interface instead of the terminal.

    22.4K
  1. 4

    ccusage

    19Kccusage/ccusage · Rust

    ccusage is a command-line tool that reads local usage data from coding agent CLIs and turns it into daily, weekly, monthly, and session reports of token usage and cost.

  2. 5

    RagaAI-Catalyst

    16.2Kraga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst · Python

    RagaAI Catalyst is a platform for managing and optimizing LLM projects — tracing, evaluating and safeguarding LLM and agent applications, shipped as a Python SDK.

  3. 6

    codeburn

    11.5Kgetagentseal/codeburn · TypeScript

    CodeBurn is a free, open-source, local-first tool that tracks AI coding token usage and cost across 41 tools and agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, Grok and more — broken down by model, project, and task.

  4. 7

    hive

    11.1Kaden-hive/hive · Python

    OpenHive is an open-source multi-agent harness for production AI — a runtime that adds state management, failure recovery, observability, cost control, and human oversight so colonies of agents reliably run real business processes instead of demos.

  5. 8

    bifrost

    8.9Kmaximhq/bifrost · Go

    An open-source, high-performance AI gateway that unifies 23+ LLM providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, with automatic failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and budget controls built in.

  6. 9

    tokscale

    5.7Kjunhoyeo/tokscale · Rust

    Tokscale is a terminal tool that tracks how many tokens and how much money you burn across AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini CLI — with a dashboard and a global leaderboard on top.

  7. 10

    cost-xray

    5.4Ktigerless-labs/cost-xray · Python

    cost-xray is a local tool that captures the raw API traffic between Claude Code or Codex and their providers, then breaks down exactly what's in each request and what each part costs — system prompts, tool schemas, MCP blocks, cached vs fresh tokens, and more.

  8. 11

    DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget

    5KMeteorNOX/DeepSeek-Balance-Whale-Widget · JavaScript

    A tiny whale mascot widget that sits in the bottom-right corner of the DSH (DeepSeek Harness) web interface, showing your DeepSeek API balance, today's spending, and a popup after every chat turn showing how much that turn cost.

  9. 12

    openusage

    4.4Krobinebers/openusage · Swift

    OpenUsage is a free, open-source native macOS menu bar app written in Swift that tracks how much of your AI coding subscriptions (Claude, Codex, Copilot, Cursor and more) you've used — session and weekly limits, credits, and spend — all in one popover.

  10. 13

    openclaw-control-center

    4KTianyiDataScience/openclaw-control-center · TypeScript

    A local web control center for OpenClaw: one dashboard to see whether your agents are healthy, busy, blocked, or drifting, plus usage, tasks, approvals, documents, and memory. It is built for non-technical operators who want certainty, not raw backend payloads.

  11. 14

    token-monitor

    3.1KJavis603/token-monitor · JavaScript

    A desktop widget that shows live token usage and AI Tool Limits across 44+ AI coding tools - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cherry Studio, and more - with real-time multi-device sync, historical usage trends, and breakdowns by tool, device, model, session, or project.

  12. 15

    ThinkWatch-Lite

    824ThinkWatchProject/ThinkWatch-Lite · TypeScript

    ThinkWatch Lite is a local gateway that sits between AI coding clients (Claude Code, Codex, and others) and their upstream providers, letting you switch providers and models without reconfiguring each client, while tracking request cost and blocking malicious tool calls.

  13. 16

    fractal

    783plasma-ai/fractal · Python

    Fractal spawns autonomous coding-agent loops that arrange themselves into a tree: each node iterates toward a goal in its own git worktree and can spawn child nodes for subtasks, letting the tree grow to fit the problem instead of following a fixed plan.

  14. 17

    casbin-gateway

    642apache/casbin-gateway · Go

    An open-source gateway for the AI coding agents on your machine: it watches what every agent does, relays their model traffic through one endpoint covering 44 vendors, and grades whether the API behind each key is what you actually paid for.

  15. 18

    dsh-cost-meter

    435Han-1413141/dsh-cost-meter · JavaScript

    A plugin for DeepSeek Harness (DSH) that tracks session and daily costs, token usage, budgets, provider account balances, and coding-plan subscription quotas, with a bilingual English/Chinese interface.

  16. 19

    buscandomilhao

    401soumatheusgomes/buscandomilhao

    It is an AI agent that prospects for leads on Instagram on its own: it finds leads, qualifies them, writes the first message, reads replies, carries the conversation, hands off to WhatsApp, and learns from what converted to adjust audience, copy, timing and cadence.

  17. 20

    tare

    296kelviq/tare · Python

    tare is a tool that lets you ask Claude Code in plain English where your token usage went, diagnosing why you hit a usage limit by reading the session logs Claude Code already keeps on your machine.

  18. 21

    neckbeard

    245bealesh/neckbeard · Go

    A Claude Code plugin that turns an app repo into cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure, using a human-maintained catalog of tested OpenTofu modules, plus a cost estimate shown before anything is deployed.

  19. 22

    astra-advisor

    242DannyMac180/astra-advisor · Python

    Astra Advisor is a Codex plugin for capability-routed software delivery: GPT-6 Astra plans the work, delegates bounded deliverables to native subagents when useful, and owns verification and acceptance.

  20. 23

    multitown

    201w1u2d3i4/multitown · Python

    MultiTown is a code-only Python runtime toolkit for cost-aware multi-agent organization and control, where Planner, Worker, Specialist, Validator and Router agents become buildings and residents in a visual 'cyber town' you can watch, compare and control.

  21. 24

    agento11y

    129grafana/agento11y · Go

    Grafana Agent Observability monitors AI agents — the ones you build and the coding agents you use. This repo holds the open-source SDKs and plugins that send telemetry to it.

  22. 25

    Relentless

    98ArvorCo/Relentless · TypeScript

    A CLI orchestrator that runs your AI coding agent in a loop until every task is done — each iteration starts a fresh agent with clean context, while memory persists through git commits and progress files.

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