The best ccusage alternative for most developers is UsageAtlas, a free and open-source desktop app that shows tokens, cost estimates, usage windows, reset times and history for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding tools in one place. ccusage stays a good choice if all you want is a usage report printed in your terminal.
What ccusage does well
ccusage is an MIT-licensed command line tool that reads local data from coding agent CLIs and prints token and cost reports. You run it with npx ccusage@latest, no install needed, and pick a daily, weekly, monthly or session view. It also has a blocks report for Claude Code's five-hour windows, a beta status line for Claude Code, JSON output and date filters.
That is a lot for one command. The limits show up when your question changes from "what did I spend yesterday" to "how much of this week's window is left, and when does it reset".
Why people look for a ccusage alternative
The searches behind this topic usually come from one of four needs:
- A window you can glance at. A report you run on demand is easy to forget during a long agent session.
- Live limits and resets. Plan windows matter more than raw token counts once you are on a subscription.
- Tools ccusage does not read. Cursor is not in its list of supported sources.
- History in one view. Scrolling back through terminal tables gets slow when you want to compare weeks.
UsageAtlas as the desktop pick
UsageAtlas is a local-first desktop dashboard. It reads supported provider state and local session history on your own computer and turns it into daily and historical views, a model mix, a per-tool filter and time-of-day patterns. It can send one desktop alert per reset cycle when a usage window passes a threshold you choose.
For Claude Code it shows the five-hour and weekly windows along with local activity. For Codex it shows session and weekly windows, plus credits where your plan reports them. For Cursor it reads plan, Auto + Composer and API usage from the signed-in desktop session. It covers 14 tools in total, and the stats available vary by tool.
A few details matter for trust:
- No account is needed for local tracking. A free Google or GitHub sign-in is optional and only saves usage history so you can restore it on another computer.
- Prompts and responses are not read.
- Dollar figures are estimates, not a bill. Check your provider's billing page when a number has to be exact.
- It runs on Windows 10 or later, macOS and Linux.
Side by side
| ccusage | UsageAtlas | |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | Terminal reports | Desktop dashboard |
| Price | Free, MIT | Free, MIT |
| Claude Code and Codex | Yes | Yes |
| Cursor | Not listed | Yes |
| Remaining windows and reset times | Claude five-hour blocks | Yes, where the provider reports them |
| Desktop alerts | Not listed | Yes |
| JSON export for scripts | Yes | Not listed |
Moving over in a few minutes
Download UsageAtlas for your system, open it and let it read the coding tools that are already signed in on your computer. It uses the Claude credentials and the Codex CLI sign-in you already have, so there is no second login for either. Open Today for the current windows and History when you want to compare weeks or see which model took most of your tokens.
When to keep ccusage
If you script your reports, pipe JSON into other tools or want something you can run over SSH on a server, ccusage is the better fit. The two do not conflict. UsageAtlas is a separate app with its own adapters, not a fork or wrapper, so you can keep npx ccusage for quick terminal checks and keep the dashboard open for everything else.