Why Grok usage is easy to lose
Grok's weekly pool is long enough that you stop watching it. Pay-as-you-go can sit on top of that. The xAI account page is a snapshot, not a pace, and it lives in a different tab from Claude, Codex, and Cursor.
The useful question is the same as the other tools: can I keep working this week, or am I about to hit the wall?
What Pane shows you
Weekly pool. How much of the Grok CLI allowance is left, with a reset you can actually see.
Plan name. The subscription tier the CLI already knows, when xAI sends one.
Pay-as-you-go cap. A badge when that extra limit is part of the account, so it does not hide behind the weekly bar.
Local spend. Dollars from the Grok CLI logs on your PC, folded into the same donut as Claude and Codex.
How it connects to Grok
If you use the Grok CLI, Pane reads the login it already stores and calls xAI's own billing and user endpoints, then writes a refreshed token back the same way Claude and Codex do.
There is no key to invent for the plan card. The token only ever goes to xAI. Your quotas and spend never leave your PC.
Setting it up
- Install Pane with
winget install Pane.Paneor the installer from the homepage. - Sign into the Grok CLI on this PC if you have not already.
- Click the tray icon. The Grok card should already show the weekly pool.
- Star the weekly metric if you want the number next to the clock.
The rest of your stack
Questions
What is a Grok AI tracker?
A Grok AI tracker shows your Grok CLI weekly pool, plan name, pay-as-you-go cap, and local spend. Pane is a free Grok usage tracker for Windows that sits in the tray next to your other AI plans.
Does a Grok usage tracker need an xAI API key?
Not if you use the Grok CLI. Pane reads the login the CLI already stores on your PC and talks to xAI's own endpoints. The token is only ever sent to xAI.
Can I track Grok next to Claude and Codex?
Yes. That is the point of Pane. Grok, Claude, Codex, Kimi, Cursor, Copilot and the rest of the 21 providers appear as cards in one tray popover.