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WakaTime

WakaTime

Track AI-generated code, model efficiency, and adoption metrics across 100+ IDEs and terminals to optimize engineering decisions and ROI.

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WakaTime is an open-source alternative to:

ActivityWatch
SolidTime
Wakapi
TimeScribe
Hackatime
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WakaTime provides AI-powered coding analytics to help developers, teams, and organizations measure and optimize AI tool usage.

Key Features

  • AI Cost Tracking: Monitor AI spend across models with per-developer breakdowns to stay on budget
  • AI Adoption Metrics: Track which AI models developers use and the ratio of AI-generated vs human-written code
  • AI Effectiveness Analysis: Measure how often AI-generated code is modified to prove real productivity gains
  • Model Efficiency Comparison: Compare tokens per line and prompt length across models to balance quality and cost
  • Per-Model Breakdown: Detailed insights into lines changed, tokens spent, and estimated costs by model (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
  • Prompt Length Analysis: Understand developer interaction patterns with AI tools through input context measurement
  • 100+ Editor/IDE Support: Works with popular tools including VS Code, IntelliJ, Neovim, Chrome, Firefox, and terminal-based AI assistants
  • Team & Company Dashboards: Visualize adoption trends and ROI across engineering teams

Tech / Self-Hosting

WakaTime offers both cloud and self-hosted options. The open-source wakatime-cli can be self-hosted for complete data control. The platform is GDPR compliant and prioritizes developer privacy with local data processing before optional cloud sync.