Comparison

CUStats Go vs ShieldNode

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

CUStats Go

Monitor your AI model usage to avoid exceeding limits. This app predicts your weekly consumption and provides real-time tracking with smart notifications. Your data remains private on your device.

Highlights
  • Predicts weekly AI usage at reset
  • Real-time monitoring of Claude and Codex
  • Smart notifications for usage alerts
  • Multi-account management
  • Home screen widgets
  • Local-first privacy
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Know before you hit your Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor, Devin, or Droid (Factory AI) limit. CUStats Go's pace metric predicts your weekly usage at reset, so you can ease off before the cutoff — not after. Privacy-first by design: your usage data stays on your device, your account credentials are stored only in the iOS Keychain, and there are no ads and no behavioral tracking. Track each provider's billing windows, monitor model-specific consumption, and stay informed with smart notifications and multi-account management. Grok uses the Weekly or Monthly window xAI reports; Cursor maps plan usage to the billing cycle and on-demand to Extra Usage when enabled; Devin covers both the app.devin.ai agent quota and the Devin IDE plan quota. Droid connects with a Factory API key and supports reported Standard/Core five-hour, weekly and monthly windows for token-rate-limit billing only. Legacy billing and Droid history charts are not supported. Droid widgets show available Standard five-hour/weekly windows; Core and monthly windows are shown in the app. Key highlights: - Home screen widgets in three sizes: small, medium, and large multi-account dashboard (widgets require iOS 17 or later). - Widgets update automatically in the background — no need to open the app. - Widgets omit usage windows a provider does not report instead of showing a misleading 0%. - Multi-account widget shows all connected accounts (up to 5) with per-account usage, pace, and reset times. - Real-time monitoring of Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor, Devin, and Droid (Factory AI) with live progress bars. - Pace Metric predicts your weekly usage at reset time. Know before you hit the limit. - Promotion awareness: see when 2× usage windows are active with visual indicators. - 7-day trend charts for supported providers, with session-level detail, prediction lines, and weekly reset indicators. Droid history charts are unavailable. - Unified live session view with hero header and inline cumulative and peak charts. - Color-coded statuses (Good, Caution, Critical, At Limit) clarify when to pause usage. - Pace status indicators: Healthy (under 90%), Risky (90-100%), Over (above 100%). - Smart notifications for configurable thresholds, reset alerts, weekly unused-usage reminders, and service status changes — including when Claude or Codex recovers; iOS checks Claude thresholds in the background (Focus-friendly). - Extra usage (overage) credit tracking for paid plans. - Built-in multi-account flow with numbered credential how-tos and secure Keychain storage. - Width-adaptive iPad navigation (side rail at 600pt+), plus iPhone portrait and landscape. - Local-first privacy: no ads, no behavioral tracking, no cloud syncing. Your usage data stays on-device, and credentials are kept in the iOS Keychain. Perfect for developers, researchers, and busy professionals who rely on Claude, Codex, Grok, Cursor, Devin, or Droid (Factory AI) and need portable visibility.

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ShieldNode

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ShieldNode is the secure vault and live control panel for every API key your AI agents touch. THE PROBLEM AI agents are powerful, and you give them your API keys to get real work done. But a misfired prompt, a bad tool call, or a runaway loop can drain your Stripe credits, hit your OpenAI rate limits, or post the wrong thing to your Slack. Once an agent has the key, you are trusting it with everything that key can do. THE FIX Your real upstream keys live in our encrypted vault, never in a prompt, never in a config file, never in your agent's context. Your agents only ever see virtual keys that route through our proxy. The proxy decrypts the real credential in memory at the exact moment the request needs to go out, and the value never gets returned to any caller. Every sensitive call can ask you first. DROP-IN AGENT SKILL The piece that makes the whole thing work for anyone using an AI assistant: a free, open-source ShieldNode skill that plugs straight into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, and any agent that can load instructions. One install and the agent learns to use virtual keys correctly, request the right approval duration, identify itself by name in your notifications, and back off cleanly when you decline. You do not have to teach your agent anything. The skill does it. PUSH APPROVAL The killer feature. When your AI agent tries to use a protected key, you get a time-sensitive push notification. Approve from the lockscreen, set a duration (5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, or custom), and the agent gets through for exactly that window. Decline, and the request dies on the spot. No app switch. No dashboard hunting. UNIVERSAL VAULT One app, every API. Stripe, GitHub, OpenAI, Anthropic, SendGrid, Slack, Notion, anything that takes a key. Add a new service in seconds with the in-app AI Configurator: point it at the docs, it auto-fills the auth scheme and base URL for you. FULL CONTROL Pause a key. Disable a service. Delete a virtual credential. Watch every call land in your live audit log with the method, path, status, latency, plus the agent name and decision when a request was gated by approval. EMERGENCY STOP One tap. Every key locks. Every agent freezes. No confirmation, no delay. The big red button you always wished you had. WHO IT IS FOR - Developers shipping autonomous agents and tired of waking up to surprise bills - Builders letting AI access production credentials and needing a human in the loop - Anyone who hands an API key to an AI agent securely SUBSCRIPTIONS Free plan: 2 services and 500 requests per month, no credit card required. Push approval, the universal vault, and the emergency stop are included from day one. Pro Monthly: $9.99 per month, auto-renewable. Unlocks unlimited services, 100,000 requests per month, longer log retention, and request tracking. Pro Annual: $69.99 per year (effective $5.83 per month), auto-renewable. Same Pro features billed yearly. 14-day Pro trial available, no card up front. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://shieldnode.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Real keys stay encrypted in our vault. Virtual ones do the work. The skill teaches your agent. You stay in control.

Screenshots

CUStats Go4 screens
ShieldNode4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ShieldNode at Free against CUStats Go's $8.99. CUStats Go's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#148 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ShieldNode is free to download; CUStats Go costs $8.99 up front. ShieldNode sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. CUStats Go asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CUStats Go ships an update every 10 days, ShieldNode every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
CUStats Go versus ShieldNode: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCUStats GoShieldNode
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#148 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuong NGUYENDoruNaitsu

In-app purchases

None

CUStats Go

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

ShieldNode

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$69.991 Year
One-time3
  • 5,000 Requests$2.99
  • 25,000 Requests$9.99
  • 100,000 Requests$29.99

Questions

Is CUStats Go free?
CUStats Go costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ShieldNode free?
ShieldNode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CUStats Go or ShieldNode have ads?
Neither CUStats Go nor ShieldNode shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CUStats Go or ShieldNode?
CUStats Go ships an update every 10 days, and ShieldNode every 5 days. Most recently, CUStats Go was updated on October 15, 2026 and ShieldNode on October 4, 2026.

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