OpenRouter Tracker

Track your OpenRouter API usage and budget limits directly from the VS Code status bar. Requires an OpenRouter management key only.

Features

• Status bar — shows tracked budget consumption: $X / $Y (ZZ%) with color warnings at 75% (orange) and 90% (red)
• Rich hover tooltip — hover the status bar to see a Markdown table of all usage and budget limits
• Dashboard — click the status bar to open a full dashboard with:
  • API key selector (fetched from your management key)
  • Usage summary (all-time, monthly, weekly, daily)
  • Budget limits table (key-level limits + guardrails + workspace budgets)
  • Analytics explorer (dimension, metric, granularity filters)
• Auto-refresh — status bar updates every 60 seconds

Status bar

Dashboard

Setup

1. Install the extension
2. Open VS Code settings (Ctrl+,)
3. Search for openrouterTracker.managementKey
4. Paste your OpenRouter management key
5. Click the status bar item to open the dashboard and configure tracking

Requirements

• An OpenRouter account with a management key
• VS Code 1.86+

Extension Settings