USAGE, LIMITS, AND BETTER ROUTING

Know what your
AI tools are using.

Practical guides for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, local models, and the growing stack around them. Every article connects the work a model does with a way to track its usage.

30 articles publishedFive new guides each day through September 28
Workflow

A Weekly AI Usage Dashboard for 18 Coding Tools

Build a useful weekly review across cloud assistants and local models using native limits, reset times, costs, context, and outcomes.

September 28, 20262 min read
Command Code

Command Code GOAT Plan Usage: Three Limits to Watch

Track Command Code GOAT 5-hour, weekly, and monthly dollar-based usage, model rates, extra credits, and reset windows.

September 28, 20262 min read
Devin

Devin ACU Usage: How to Track Agent Effort

Understand Devin Agent Compute Units, session-level usage, team limits, and why task outcomes matter more than raw agent time.

September 28, 20262 min read
Perplexity

Tracking Perplexity API Usage in Research Workflows

Monitor Perplexity API credits, request usage, model costs, and research-job budgets while keeping account and local logs aligned.

September 28, 20262 min read
Agent Activity

Is Your AI Agent Working, Waiting, or Stuck?

Distinguish active work, a request for input, queueing, completion, and a genuinely stalled coding agent while tracking usage.

September 28, 20262 min read
Workflow

Parallel AI Agents Multiply Usage Faster Than You Think

Track concurrent coding agents, subagent context, model costs, and completion value before parallel work consumes an entire usage window.

September 27, 20262 min read
Usage Basics

Why Context Size Changes AI Agent Usage

Understand how repository context, conversation history, cache reads, and long-context pricing affect coding-agent usage and speed.

September 27, 20262 min read
Workflow

Tracking Multiple Claude Code and Codex Accounts Separately

Keep work and personal Claude Code or Codex profiles separate, including their usage windows, reset times, sessions, and credentials.

September 27, 20262 min read
Workflow

A Model Routing Strategy Based on Remaining Usage

Route coding work by task value, remaining allowance, reset time, model strength, and local capacity instead of switching only after a limit.

September 27, 20262 min read
Workflow

How to Track AI Coding Spend Across Claude, Codex, and Cursor

Build one practical usage view across Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor without mixing incompatible prompts, tokens, credits, and windows.

September 27, 20262 min read
GLM

How to Track GLM Coding Plan Usage

Monitor GLM Coding Plan 5-hour, weekly, model-token, and MCP tool quotas using ZCode stats and a persistent Mac view.

September 26, 20262 min read
MiniMax

MiniMax Token Plan Usage: What the Balance Really Tells You

Track MiniMax monthly token-plan allowance, model usage, concurrency, API spend, and account balance across coding workflows.

September 26, 20262 min read
Kimi

How to Track Kimi Code Usage Windows

Use Kimi Code's /usage command, model selection, and quota refresh information to track short and weekly coding allowance.

September 26, 20262 min read
OpenCode

OpenCode Go Usage Limits: 5-Hour, Weekly, and Monthly

Track OpenCode Go dollar-based model limits across 5-hour, weekly, and monthly windows, plus fallback balance usage.

September 26, 20262 min read
Kiro

Kiro Credits: How Usage Works and What to Track

Understand Kiro credit consumption, model multipliers, monthly resets, add-on credits, and the dashboard signals that prevent surprises.

September 26, 20262 min read
Grok

Grok API Credits, Spend, and Rate Limits: What to Track

Monitor xAI Grok prepaid credits, invoiced spend, model tokens, rate-limit tiers, cache usage, and reset behavior in one workflow.

September 25, 20262 min read
DeepSeek

How to Track DeepSeek API Token Usage and Spend

Track DeepSeek input and output tokens, cached usage, requests, API-key activity, and account spend without relying on estimates.

September 25, 20262 min read
Comparison

Local vs Cloud AI Usage: What Should You Measure?

Compare cloud quotas with local model capacity using the right metrics for cost, context, speed, memory, privacy, and availability.

September 25, 20262 min read
LM Studio

Tracking LM Studio Context, Tokens, and Generation Speed

Monitor LM Studio model load, context use, tokens per second, time to first token, and queued requests across local workflows.

September 25, 20262 min read
Ollama

How to Measure Ollama Token Usage and Speed on a Mac

Use Ollama response metrics to track input tokens, output tokens, cache hits, model load time, and generation speed locally.

September 25, 20262 min read
Antigravity

How to Track Antigravity Agent Usage Without Guessing

Monitor Antigravity quota, model requests, and active agent work while keeping its usage separate from Gemini CLI and other tools.

September 24, 20262 min read
Gemini CLI

Gemini CLI Quotas and the /stats Command

Track Gemini CLI requests, session tokens, daily quotas, and authentication-specific limits with the official stats view and a Mac tracker.

September 24, 20262 min read
GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot Premium Requests: What Counts and How to Track Them

A practical guide to Copilot premium request usage, model multipliers, code review consumption, and personal or team tracking.

September 24, 20262 min read
Cursor

When Cursor Max Mode Uses More of Your Allowance

Know when Cursor Max Mode is worth the extra usage, how long context changes consumption, and how to measure value per task.

September 24, 20262 min read
Cursor

How to Track Cursor Usage Across Models

Understand Cursor's model-based usage, dashboard breakdowns, and the signals to watch when switching between Auto, premium, and Max modes.

September 24, 20262 min read
Usage Basics

Why AI Coding Assistant Usage Feels Unpredictable

Seven factors that make AI coding usage jump, plus a tracking method that explains your real burn rate without hidden-formula guesswork.

September 23, 20262 min read
Comparison

Codex vs Claude Code Usage Limits: What Should You Track?

Compare Codex and Claude Code usage without pretending prompts are equal. Focus on windows, pace, context, and task outcomes.

September 23, 20262 min read
Codex

How to Track Codex Usage and Reset Times

Track Codex limits from the CLI, desktop app, and a persistent Mac view so longer agent tasks do not end in a surprise limit.

September 23, 20262 min read
Claude Code

Claude Code 5-Hour and Weekly Limits, in Plain English

Understand Claude Code's short and weekly usage windows, why both matter, and how to track them without interrupting your work.

September 23, 20262 min read
Claude Code

How to Track Claude Code Usage Before You Hit the Limit

A practical way to monitor Claude Code session and weekly usage, reset times, and the work patterns that consume allowance fastest.

September 23, 20262 min read

Plan terms and limits change. Provider documentation linked inside each article is the source for current account rules.