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AI Usage & Subscription Tracker for VS Code

A VS Code status-bar extension plus web dashboard that shows real-time usage/quota for all connected AI providers, alerts before limits hit, and tracks total monthly AI subscription spend in one place.

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Confidence: 4 out of 5
0.75 model confidence

The problem

Users juggling multiple AI subscriptions (Claude, Grok, ChatGPT) report running out of tokens unexpectedly and having to leave their IDE to check usage limits. One developer built a Chrome extension just to see how much Claude quota remained, and others complain about managing multiple active AI subscriptions.

Who it’s for

Developers and power users with multiple AI subscriptions

Market

1M+ developers with multiple paid AI subscriptions

Source: external_knowledge

VS Code has tens of millions of monthly users, and tens of millions of developers globally subscribe to AI tools like ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. A meaningful subset (conservatively 1M+) pays for multiple AI subscriptions and works inside an IDE daily, forming the addressable base for a usage-tracking extension.

Who already tried

No named competitors in the corpus yet.

Lives inside the IDE where developers already work, combining per-model quota visibility with cross-subscription cost tracking.

What you’d build

Rough effort

50 hours

Stack

  • TypeScript
  • VS Code Extension API
  • Supabase

Integrates with

  • VS Code
  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Stripe