Cursor Usage Dashboard: Credits, Model Spend and What It Misses
The Cursor usage dashboard is in your account settings on cursor.com. It shows included credits used, spend by model, and your monthly budget – and it is the authoritative source for all three.
It has one structural limitation, and it is the reason most people end up here: it is a snapshot you have to go and load.
What changed, and why spend matters more now
Cursor moved to included credits rather than a fixed fast-request count. That sounds like an accounting detail and it is not: models draw down credits at very different rates, so the same number of requests can cost very different amounts depending on what you asked for.
The practical effect is that a request counter no longer tells you much. Spend by model does, and that is the figure worth watching as the month goes on.
Why a dashboard cannot warn you
Overage does not arrive as an event. It accumulates quietly while you work, and a page you have to open cannot interrupt you. By the time you think to check, the question has usually changed from “how am I doing” to “how did that happen”.
This is the gap worth closing, and it is the only thing a third-party tool can genuinely add. The dashboard is more authoritative than anything else about what you have spent; it is simply not present while you spend it.
Common questions
- Where is the Cursor usage dashboard?
- It lives in your Cursor account settings, on the dashboard section of cursor.com. It is the authoritative source for included credits used, model spend, and your monthly budget, and it is where you change plan or set spending controls.
- What does the Cursor dashboard actually show?
- Included credits consumed, spend broken down by model, and your budget for the month. Since the move to included credits, that spend figure matters more than the old fixed fast-request counter: different models draw down at very different rates, so two similar-looking days can cost very differently.
- Why do I still get surprised by overage?
- Because the dashboard is a snapshot you have to go and load. It tells you where you stand at the moment you look, not that you are burning credits unusually fast this afternoon. Overage does not announce itself; it accumulates while you work, and you find out the next time you open the page or the next time you are billed.
- Can I see Cursor usage without opening the dashboard?
- Yes. SessionWatcher keeps included credits, model spend and monthly budget in the macOS menu bar and refreshes in the background, so the number is in front of you while you work rather than behind a login. It warns as you climb rather than reporting after the fact.
- Does it track other tools at the same time?
- Yes, fifteen of them. If you run Cursor next to Claude Code or Codex, the reason to use a menu-bar tracker is usually that one place beats three dashboards, each with its own login and its own idea of what a limit means.
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