CodeBurn
Track and cut your AI coding spend across every tool you use
The Panel's Take
CodeBurn is a terminal TUI dashboard that reads AI coding session data directly from disk — no API keys, proxies, or wrappers required — and surfaces a breakdown of token costs across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and more. It auto-classifies activity into 13 categories (coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, etc.) and shows one-shot success rates per task type, giving developers a rare look at where their AI spend actually goes. The dashboard includes gradient charts, keyboard navigation, multiple time periods, and a currency converter supporting 162 ISO 4217 currencies. There's also an "optimize" command that scans sessions for waste patterns and outputs actionable, copy-paste fixes. For teams, a macOS menu bar app surfaces daily costs at a glance. With 2.7k stars after a Show HN post, CodeBurn clearly scratched a real itch. As AI coding budgets scale from hundreds to thousands of dollars per developer per month, tooling that makes costs visible and actionable becomes less optional and more essential.
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CodeBurn verdict: SHIP 🚀 3 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/codeburn-ai-coding-token-cost-tui-dashboard-multi-provider-2026
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“This is exactly the observability layer AI coding has been missing. Knowing that 40% of my Claude Code tokens went to a single poorly-scoped context window is the kind of insight that pays for itself in the first week. The 'optimize' command is genuinely useful, not just marketing copy.”
“The multi-provider claim is impressive on paper, but Cursor and Copilot don't expose session data the same way Claude Code does. Expect incomplete data for non-Anthropic tools until the provider ecosystem standardizes telemetry formats. Also: if your team uses ephemeral dev containers, good luck getting disk reads to work.”
“Cost observability is the missing infrastructure layer for the AI-native development era. Just as APM tools like Datadog became mandatory once cloud costs mattered, AI coding cost tracking will be table stakes within 18 months. CodeBurn is an early mover in a category that will consolidate around one or two dominant players.”
“The TUI design is clean and keyboard-navigable in a way most developer dashboards aren't. Gradient charts inside a terminal window sounds tacky but actually reads well. The category breakdown would make a genuinely compelling weekly standup artifact for teams trying to improve AI workflow discipline.”