A plugin to track your own Codex usage
Someone shared a plugin that lets you monitor how much you actually use Codex, OpenAI's AI coding tool. Seeing your usage in real time makes it easier to manage costs and spot patterns in how you work. It's a practical tool for solo developers trying to keep AI spending under control.
Codex is an AI tool by OpenAI that writes code for you based on plain-language instructions. One longstanding frustration has been the lack of visibility into how often and how heavily you're using it — especially when you're on a subscription or pay-as-you-go plan.
This plugin tracks your Codex usage — such as number of requests and tokens (the units AI uses to measure text) consumed — and presents the data clearly. For solo developers and makers, it means you can spot if you're about to hit a limit, understand which tasks are driving the most AI usage, and make smarter decisions about your workflow and budget.
Key points
- Automatically logs Codex usage including request count and token consumption
- Helps you see which tasks consume the most AI resources
- Useful for avoiding surprise overages on usage-based plans
- Gives solo developers direct visibility into their AI tool spending
Quick term guide
- AI coding tool
- Software that uses AI to help write, edit, or explain code.
- developers
- Developers are people who build software, apps, or websites.
- subscription
- A pricing model where you pay a fixed amount of money every month for access.
- script
- A small program that automates repeated steps.
- tokens
- Tokens are small pieces of text that AI systems count when reading or writing.
- workflow
- A repeatable set of steps for getting a task done.
- budget
- The maximum amount of tokens or money an AI is allowed to spend on a single task.
- sources
- Evidence showing where a piece of information came from.