New: see where your AI quota went – by project, model and hour. Claude, ChatGPT & Codex, Copilot and more in your menu bar. Free, no account needed.
AI Cockpit puts every AI limit and every franc you spend on AI into one window, right from your Mac's menu bar. Eight services, one glance — and a warning before a window runs out, not after.
Free. No account with me, no subscription, no pro tier, no ads.
WHAT IT SHOWS
• Claude: the 5-hour and weekly windows, per model, with reset times, sparklines and a forecast of when you will hit the limit
• A second Claude account: its own card, nameable, with its own colour — work and private side by side
• ChatGPT and Codex: the subscription's 5-hour and weekly windows plus your credit, fetched live after a one-time sign-in
• Anthropic API: cost, credit and a monthly budget
• OpenAI API: cost today, this month and in total, per model and per project, with a budget bar and a monthly report as HTML or CSV
• OpenRouter: credit, spend and what is left of the key's spending cap
• Grok (xAI): balance and spending cap
• Kimi K3: balance and coding quota
• GitHub Copilot: premium requests or AI credits this month, whichever your account is billed on — personally paid plans only, because GitHub reports company-managed seats at the organisation level
• Claude Code sessions: model, effort, subagents, token share and context window of every running session — with a heads-up when one is waiting for you
MORE THAN THE CURRENT NUMBER
• A forecast, not just a reading: "full at 4:44 pm at this rate"
• One line for the month: your subscription fees plus live API spend, as a single figure
• Notifications before a window fills — two thresholds, yours to set, off by default
• An outage indicator when a provider is down
• Desktop widgets, and a menu bar in four styles: both windows, the most critical value, a ring, or time remaining
• Demo mode: every card filled with sample figures, before you sign in to anything
BUILT LIKE A TOOL, NOT A SERVICE
• No server of mine. No account. No telemetry, no analytics, no ads, nothing sold on the side
• Your keys stay in the macOS keychain, and the app only ever reads with them — it creates, changes and deletes nothing
• Native Swift. No Electron, no web view
• The full list of what it connects to is public at aicockpit.info/security.html — run a network monitor alongside and compare
• English and German, dark, light or system
ALSO ON YOUR PHONE AND YOUR WRIST
"AI Cockpit: Usage & Limits" is a separate free download for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, from iOS 17 and watchOS 10 on. The phone fetches the figures itself — no Mac has to be awake for the number on your wrist to be current.
WHY IT IS FREE
There is a tip jar under Settings → About — Espresso, Cappuccino or Dinner, once or as often as you like. It unlocks nothing and changes nothing. A price tag on a tool like this mostly buys hesitation, and the people who would find it useful already pay for several AI subscriptions.
Requires accounts with the providers you want to watch; every API key is optional and the subscription cards work without one. macOS 14 or later.
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New: the Usage window. See where your quota went – by project, model and hour, up to 365 days back. Raw tokens and the equivalent at API list prices (not an invoice), the estimated share of the 5-hour and 7-day windows, and a weekday × hour heatmap. "Create analysis" saves an HTML report, plus CSV export. AI Cockpit reads back what Claude Code still keeps, then saves the totals itself – numbers only, stored locally.
Also new: a monthly budget with warnings, and an optional daily summary.
Fixed: Anthropic API costs were a hundred times too high, session tokens were counted about 2.7 times, Kimi shows yuan on the China platform, Copilot labels AI credits correctly.
Version 6.8
The developer, Albert Frick, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Albert Frick
Size
1.8 MB
Category
Developer Tools
Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.