A few months ago my workflow looked something like this:
3 Claude Pro accounts
1 Codex accounts
1 Cursor account
Not because I'm hoarding subscriptions for fun it's because I lean on AI coding tools all day, and a single account's usage limit just doesn't survive a real working session. So the moment I hit a limit on one, I'd switch to the next.
Sounds fine in theory. In practice it turned into a small nightmare.
The actual problem
I'd be deep in a refactor, hit a wall "you've reached your usage limit" and switch accounts. Cool. But an hour later I'd forget:
Which account did I already burn through?
Which one reset already?
Did account #2 even have limit left, or did I use it yesterday and forget?
So I'd end up opening each tool one by one, logging in, checking usage screens, closing tabs, trying to reconstruct a mental map of "who has what." Every single time I hit a limit. Multiple times a day.
It's a dumb problem to have, but it was eating real time. Context-switching between 5 accounts across 3 different tools just to answer "which one can I use right now" is exactly the kind of friction that shouldn't exist for developers who are supposed to be moving fast.
What I actually needed
Not another dashboard to log into. Not another tab. I just wanted one place that could tell me, at a glance:
Claude account 1 - X% used
Claude account 2 - X% used
Claude account 3 - X% used
Codex account 1 - X% used
Cursor - X% used
That's it. No analytics, no fluff. Just "here's what's left, go use it."
So I built it
I ended up building a small desktop app that connects to your Claude, Codex, and Cursor accounts and shows live usage for each one in a single window. No more guessing, no more tab-hopping, no more "wait, did I already use this one today?"
It's called UsageBuddy, and it exists purely because I got tired of doing manual account bookkeeping instead of writing code.
If you're juggling multiple AI coding accounts too and if you use these tools seriously, you probably are this might save you the same headache it saved me.
👉 usagebuddy.com
I built this for myself first. If it's useful to you too, that's a bonus but I'd genuinely like to know if other devs are hitting the same wall, because right now it feels like something everyone running multiple AI accounts eventually runs into and just quietly tolerates.
If that's you, don't wait until you're mid-refactor and rate-limited again to fix it. Go check your accounts now you might already be sitting on a maxed-out one without knowing it.
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