Tokenyst
Been working on this VS code extension in preparation for the usage based billing change. Hoping this will help me be more mindful of my credits.
Tokenyst launched on June 2, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Track your GitHub Copilot Chat usage, estimate token costs, and watch your spend against a monthly budget all from a VS Code sidebar and the status bar. Tokenyst is strictly local. It reads Copilot's own session files on your machine, estimates costs from a pricing table baked into the extension, and stores everything in a single JSON file under your home directory. Nothing is sent to any Tokenyst server.
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Track GitHub Copilot Chat & CLI usage, token costs, and credits against a monthly budget. Local, private, no account.
Track your GitHub Copilot Chat and Copilot CLI usage, estimate token costs, and watch your combined spend against a monthly budget — all from a VS Code sidebar and the status bar. Tokenyst is strictly local . It reads Copilot's own session files on your machine, estimates costs from a pricing table baked into the extension, and stores everything in a single JSON file under your home directory. Nothing is sent to any Tokenyst server. For Chat requests where no credit value is recorded — and for older CLI logs that predate the credit field — Tokenyst estimates the cost from a token pricing table baked into the extension (matching GitHub's usage-based billing). All usage is stored as…from marketplace.visualstudio.com
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