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walkingddd/cpa-helper

Analysis updated 2026-05-18

63GoAudience · ops devopsComplexity · 3/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

A self-hosted dashboard for managing multiple users sharing one CLIProxyAPI service, tracking usage, keys, and costs per person.

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    What it does
      Tracks per-user usage
      Manages API keys
      Monitors requests
    Tech stack
      Go
      Vue 3
      SQLite
    Use cases
      Shared AI API access
      Team cost tracking
    Audience
      Small teams

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Give each team member their own API key on a shared CLIProxyAPI instance.

USE CASE 2

Track token usage and estimated cost separately for every user.

USE CASE 3

Let an admin monitor global traffic and filter logs by user, model, or failures.

USE CASE 4

Maintain a pricing catalog so cost estimates stay accurate as providers change prices.

What is it built with?

GoVueSQLiteDocker

How does it compare?

walkingddd/cpa-helpersliverkiss/mimocode2apitj/go-gracefully
Stars636566
LanguageGoGoGo
Last pushed2014-12-27
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity3/52/52/5
Audienceops devopsdeveloperdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

Documented primarily in Chinese, requires a running CLIProxyAPI instance.

In plain English

CPA-Helper is a self-hosted multi-user management dashboard for CLIProxyAPI (also known as CPA), a service that acts as a proxy for AI model APIs. The dashboard provides a web interface for tracking usage, managing API keys, and monitoring requests across multiple users who share the same CPA service, useful for a small team or group sharing AI API access. Each user can create and manage their own API keys independently, and their usage data (number of requests, tokens consumed, and estimated costs) is tracked separately from other users. An administrator can create or disable user accounts, view all global traffic across every user, filter request logs by time, user, model, and failure status, and maintain the pricing catalog for each AI model so that cost estimates remain accurate as provider prices change. There is also a Codex account monitoring feature that can run on a schedule to check and maintain Codex authentication files. The project is built with a Go backend (using SQLite as the local database), a Vue 3 front-end (using Vite, Naive UI, and ECharts for charts), and supports Docker deployment for easy setup. It is documented primarily in Chinese, though an English README is also available. You would use this if you run a shared CPA instance for yourself or a small team and want visibility into who is using which models, how much it costs, and centralized control over API keys without each person having direct access to the underlying service credentials.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me deploy CPA-Helper with Docker to manage a shared CLIProxyAPI instance.
Prompt 2
Show me how to create separate API keys for each user in CPA-Helper.
Prompt 3
Explain how CPA-Helper's admin view lets me filter request logs by user and model.
Prompt 4
Walk me through setting up CPA-Helper's Codex account monitoring schedule.

Frequently asked questions

What is cpa-helper?

A self-hosted dashboard for managing multiple users sharing one CLIProxyAPI service, tracking usage, keys, and costs per person.

What language is cpa-helper written in?

Mainly Go. The stack also includes Go, Vue, SQLite.

How hard is cpa-helper to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is cpa-helper for?

Mainly ops devops.

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