AI
best practice
Monitor Real-Time Token Costs and Usage Stats
Track your daily token and API expenditure directly in the terminal.
Monitor your AI development costs in real-time by using the /stats command to display a summary of your daily token spend and usage.
Qwen
The Scenario
You are working on a high-velocity project and need to verify your API usage and token expenditure to stay within development budgets.
Before & after
The old way
Developers manually log into API provider dashboards or check cloud billing consoles once a month, spending 15–20 minutes to calculate costs.
With AI
Run /stats regularly to see a precise breakdown of your daily spending in under 30 seconds.
The Prompt
/stats
Included in version 0.18.4, the /stats command helps developers monitor their resource consumption without leaving the terminal environment.
Source
Qwen Code Blog: AI Coding Updates and Guides | Qwen Code Docs"/stats shows your daily token spend, /voice lets you speak instead of type."