CodeBurn is a free, open-source tracker for AI coding costs. It reads the session files your tools already write - Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, 40 in all, and shows every token and dollar by the task, model, project, and pull request that used it. The Optimize tab finds waste like cache bloat or retry tax, applies the fix, and tracks what it actually saved. Everything runs on your machine: no account, no uploads. MIT-licensed and genuinely free, used by 150k+ developers across the world.
Hey PH, I'm Resham, the person behind CodeBurn.
AI coding tools don't tell you where your money goes. The bill shows a total, and that's it. Which model? Which project? Was it work that shipped, or an agent re-reading the same file over and over?
The thing is, the answer already exists. Every AI coding tool Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, and 36 more writes detailed session logs to your own disk. Nobody was reading them.
CodeBurn reads them. Here's everything it does:
📊 Understand your spend
• Every token and dollar broken down by task, model, project and by pull request, so you see which PRs your budget actually shipped
• A spend punchcard: which hours and weekdays you burn the most
• Session browser with titles, so you find work by what it was about
• Workflow insights: how often you correct the AI, how long until it makes its first edit, which files it keeps reworking
🔥 Cut your spend
• Optimize finds the waste: cache bloat, retry tax, expensive models doing work a cheaper one handles fine
• It applies the fix for you and tracks what the fix actually saved. Undo included
• Compare any two models on your own real usage: cost per edit, one-shot rate
• Budgets with warnings, subscription plan and overage tracking, live quota windows
🖥️ Wherever you work
• CLI: one command, full dashboard in your terminal
• Desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux nothing else to install, the engine is bundled
• macOS menu bar: today's burn always visible, with forecasts and quota pace
• Web dashboard served from your own machine
• GNOME panel extension for Linux
• All of them read the same local data, so they always agree
🔒 Built on two rules
• Honest: when a cost is estimated instead of exact, it says so
• Yours: open source, MIT license, no account, nothing ever leaves your machine. Genuinely free
There's also an MCP server, so your AI agent can check its own spending. Yes, really.
🎁 For PH folks: nothing to unlock it's already free. If your AI tool isn't supported yet, open an issue and I'll personally prioritize it.
I'll be in the comments all day. Ask me anything. 👇
→ codeburn.app
About CodeBurn on Product Hunt
“See where your AI coding spend actually goes”
CodeBurn launched on Product Hunt on August 12th, 2026 and earned 106 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. CodeBurn is a free, open-source tracker for AI coding costs. It reads the session files your tools already write - Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, 40 in all, and shows every token and dollar by the task, model, project, and pull request that used it. The Optimize tab finds waste like cache bloat or retry tax, applies the fix, and tracks what it actually saved. Everything runs on your machine: no account, no uploads. MIT-licensed and genuinely free, used by 150k+ developers across the world.
On the analytics side, CodeBurn competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CodeBurn performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CodeBurn?
CodeBurn was hunted by Resham Joshi. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of CodeBurn including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Resham Joshi