OFofershapira·Mar 8, 2026Submission
Show HN: Open-source Cursor cost tracker with anomaly detection and Slack alerts
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cursor-usage-tracker
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ofershap / cursor-usage-tracker
cursor-usage-tracker
Monitor Cursor IDE usage, detect spending anomalies, and alert your team. Self-hosted, open-source.
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Monitor Cursor IDE usage, detect spending anomalies, and alert your team. Self-hosted, open-source.
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: Monitor your team's Cursor AI spend before the invoice hits
My company has 100+ developers on Cursor. One of our devs switched to
opus-max thinking "fast" meant cheaper. It costs 35x more per request.
He burned $1,200 in a single day before anyone noticed.
That's when I built this. It connects to Cursor's Enterprise APIs and
gives you per-developer spend breakdown by model, three-layer anomaly
detection (thresholds, z-score, trend analysis), Slack/email alerts on
spend spikes, and incident tracking with MTTD/MTTI/MTTR.
We've saved our team ~$6K/month just by identifying devs running long
sessions with massive context caches and helping them start fresh chats.
Self-hosted, SQLite, Docker. Clone and run in 5 minutes. MIT licensed.
GitHub: https://github.com/ofershap/cursor-usage-tracker
Demo (90s): https://youtube.com/watch?v=DqPjFWGI57A
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