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ccusage vs codex-usage-tracker vs CodeBurn vs LiteLLM proxy: Four Ways to See What Your Coding Agent Just Spent

Every coding agent leaves a different telemetry trail — JSONL transcripts, a SQLite store, or only a prose log — so the open-source tracker worth installing depends on which trail your agent leaves. Four trackers, four trails, plus the levers that actually cut the bill.

LangSmith vs Braintrust vs Helicone vs Arize Phoenix: Four Loops the Eval/Observability Stack Was Built to Close

All four ship traces, datasets, and evaluators — the feature lists nearly match. What separates them is which feedback loop they were built to close: the dev loop, CI, the production gateway, or model-monitoring drift.