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
- Install the extension
- Open VS Code settings (
Ctrl+,)
- Search for
openrouterTracker.managementKey
- Paste your OpenRouter management key
- Click the status bar item to open the dashboard and configure tracking
Requirements
Extension Settings
| Setting |
Description |
openrouterTracker.managementKey |
OpenRouter Management Key (required) |
| |