Token Budget Manager

Track estimated AI token usage, set personal budgets, monitor conversations, and get alerts while keeping your data local.

**Know how your AI conversations are growing — before you hit a limit.** Token Budget Manager is a privacy-focused browser extension that tracks estimated token usage while you use **ChatGPT and Claude**. Monitor conversations in real time, see draft token estimates, create personal token budgets, receive smart alerts, and understand your AI usage — all while keeping your conversation content on your device. What's new — v0.3.0 - Added: a way to hide or close the in-page "Live Usage Monitor" widget on ChatGPT and Claude, if you'd rather not see it — bring it back anytime from Settings. Tracking, budgets, and alerts keep working in the background either way. - Fixed: budget alerts now actually use the warning percentage you pick when creating a budget, and can send a real browser notification when crossed — previously the picker didn't do anything, and only reaching 100% of a budget ever notified you. - Fixed: editing a budget could show the wrong values instead of the one you clicked "Edit" on. - Changed: a budget now applies to a single provider (ChatGPT or Claude), picked from a simple dropdown, instead of a confusing "applies to" setting. - Fixed: reopening or scrolling through an older conversation could inflate today's usage totals by re-counting old messages as if they were sent today. - Improved: the "Estimated remaining" figure in the widget is now labeled more clearly as an estimated number of messages, not a strict token countdown. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ CORE FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔷 **LIVE TOKEN TRACKING** Monitor estimated token usage as you chat on ChatGPT and Claude. See how large your current conversation has become without leaving the AI interface. 🔷 **DRAFT TOKEN ESTIMATE** See the estimated size of your prompt while you're typing — before you send it. Useful when pasting large documents, code, logs, JSON, or detailed instructions. 🔷 **CONTEXT USAGE MONITOR** See an estimated view of how much of the supported model's context window your current conversation is using, helping you identify conversations that are becoming large. 🔷 **FLOATING LIVE USAGE MONITOR** A compact monitor sits directly inside supported AI websites and gives you quick access to: • Conversation token usage • Context usage • Current draft estimate • Personal budget status Open the full dashboard whenever you need deeper insights. 🔷 **PERSONAL TOKEN BUDGETS** Create your own usage limits based on how you want to manage AI usage. Configure: • Daily budgets • Weekly budgets • Conversation budgets • Warning thresholds Your budgets are personal tracking limits — they are independent of ChatGPT or Claude subscription limits. 🔷 **SMART USAGE ALERTS** Get useful warnings when your AI usage changes significantly. Token Budget Manager can alert you when: • A prompt is unusually large • A conversation is growing quickly • Your configured budget reaches a warning threshold • A conversation is approaching its configured context threshold Alerts are designed to tell you what happened — not just show another number. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ AI USAGE DASHBOARD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 **DAILY & WEEKLY USAGE** See how your estimated token consumption changes over time. 📈 **USAGE TRENDS** Visualize your recent AI usage and identify high-usage days. 🤖 **PROVIDER BREAKDOWN** See how your usage is distributed between supported AI providers such as ChatGPT and Claude. 💬 **CONVERSATION HISTORY** View locally tracked conversations along with: • Provider • Detected model, where available • Estimated tokens • Last activity 🚨 **ALERT HISTORY** Review previous usage alerts and understand what triggered them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ PRIVACY FIRST ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 **LOCAL-ONLY PROCESSING** Your AI conversations should stay yours. Token calculations happen locally in your browser. Token Budget Manager does **not send your prompt or response content to an external Token Budget Manager server for token counting**. 🔒 **NO PROMPT OR RESPONSE STORAGE** Prompt and response content is processed locally for token estimation and is not stored by Token Budget Manager. Only the aggregate metadata required for features such as usage history, budgets, alerts, and analytics is stored locally in your browser. 🔒 **YOU CONTROL YOUR DATA** From the Privacy dashboard you can: • Export your locally stored data • Delete stored extension data • Pause tracking ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO USE AI EVERY DAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Token Budget Manager is especially useful if you regularly use AI for: 👨‍💻 Software development 📝 Writing 🔬 Research 📊 Data analysis 🎓 Learning 💼 Professional work 🧠 Long-running AI conversations If you frequently paste source code, documents, logs, requirements, JSON, research material, or detailed prompts into AI tools, Token Budget Manager helps you understand how those interactions affect conversation size. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ UNDERSTANDING THE NUMBERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Token Budget Manager provides **locally calculated and estimated usage information**. Where exact provider information is unavailable, values are clearly treated as estimates. Token Budget Manager does not claim that estimated token counts represent: • Your provider's official billing usage • Your exact ChatGPT or Claude subscription quota • The exact number of messages you have remaining • Hidden system or internal model tokens that are not visible to the extension Personal token budgets are limits **you create for yourself** to help understand and manage your AI usage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ CURRENTLY SUPPORTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ ChatGPT ✓ Claude Support for additional AI platforms is planned for future releases. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR AI USAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Stop guessing how large your AI conversations are becoming. **Track your usage. Set your budget. Catch large conversations early. Keep your data local.** Token Budget Manager — a smarter way to understand your AI usage.