Toketer – See what every AI prompt costs you, live in your editor
Toketer — your AI fuel gauge ⛽ See how many tokens each AI prompt used and what it cost — live, right inside your editor. Toketer is a tiny status-bar meter that shows your AI coding spend at a glance. Install it and the meter appears immediately. 🟢 Zero config — works the instant you install it. 🔒 Private by design — metadata only.
- ▪Toketer — your AI fuel gauge ⛽ See how many tokens each AI prompt used and what it cost — live, right inside your editor.
- ▪Toketer is a tiny status-bar meter that shows your AI coding spend at a glance.
- ▪Install it and the meter appears immediately. 🟢 Zero config — works the instant you install it. 🔒 Private by design — metadata only.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Visualstudio |
| Canonical URL | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=toketer.toketer |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:56:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-07T05:07:44.004Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-07T05:07:44.004Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | fhFkPpK97TAM · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Toketer — your AI fuel gauge ⛽ See how many tokens each AI prompt used and what it cost — live, right inside your editor. Toketer is a tiny status-bar meter that shows your AI coding spend at a glance. No website, no login, no setup. Install it and the meter appears immediately. 🟢 Zero config — works the instant you install it. 🔒 Private by design — metadata only. Toketer never reads or sends your code, files, or prompts. 🧮 Offline-first — costs are computed locally from a bundled pricing table. 🌍 Works in VS Code and Cursor — no native modules, only public editor APIs. 🆓 Free, local, and offline — no account or backend needed. 💬 Real-time cost in the chat panel: just type @toketer Most developers live in the right-side chat panel and want the cost of every prompt, live.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Visualstudio.
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