Cursor’s New Pricing Blew My Budget, So I Built a Usage Tracker

Written by alexellman | Published 2025/08/11
Tech Story Tags: cursor | cursor-ai-price-update | vibe-coding | npm-package | claude-code-vs-cursor | cursor-usage-tracker | open-source-ai-tools | cursor-api-hack

TLDRWhen Cursor switched to usage-based pricing, my monthly cost jumped 700% because I rely heavily on Claude. To avoid future surprises, I built and open-sourced a Python-based CLI (also published as a Node package) that tracks real-time token usage for Cursor and Claude Code, syncs to a Django dashboard, and even ranks models globally based on community usage.via the TL;DR App
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Written by alexellman | Former data scientist working on solo projects
Published by HackerNoon on 2025/08/11
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