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Why do Cursor and Claude Code send me a big monthly bill without telling me which feature burned it?

Solo and small-team devs spend heavily every month on AI coding subscriptions with zero per-feature, per-PR or per-repo attribution.

Who has it: Indie hackers, contractors, and 2-5 person engineering teams paying for Cursor / Claude Code / Cody / Copilot.

8.5Score / 10

Severity8/10
Feasible today9/10
Market signal9/10
Competition gap8/10

What people report

Developers describe opening a large AI coding invoice with no way to tell which days, features or branches used up the budget.

Our summary of a complaint that recurs in public posts, not a quote. Nobody submitted it to Real Problem AI.

Seen in: Hacker News + Cursor Discord recurring threads, 2026 Q1-Q2

What nothing does yet

An IDE side-loaded observer that maps every token spend to feature, file, branch and PR. Sells by cutting a meaningful share of the bill in the first week.

Tools that solve this

2 named so far, and where each one stops.

Cursor billing dashboard
Aggregate counters; no per-feature breakdown.
Helicone / Langfuse
For API-direct usage; do not see Cursor / IDE-mediated calls.

Why it is archived

Retired in the 25 October 2026 freshness refresh: an older or overlapping problem replaced by a newer one people are discussing now.

How you might build it

01VS Code / Cursor extension
02Local SQLite event store
03Stripe webhook for invoice reconciliation
04Slack/email weekly digest

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