headroom-desktop

Menu bar app for macOS, Windows and Linux that cuts Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex token costs by ~50%

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Menu bar app for macOS, Windows and Linux that cuts Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex token costs by ~50%

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Headroom is a menu bar app that quietly optimizes the inputs Claude Code gets by trimming prompt bloat, stripping boilerplate, and compressing documents without changing how you work. This unlocks about 2x as much Claude Code usage on the Claude plan you already pay for. Unlike the competition, the Headroom App is entirely open source and free to get started Ideal for developers and teams looking to maximize their AI coding assistant investment. Links: https://extraheadroom.com/ https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop https://x.com/garmdotcom https://www.instagram.com/extraheadroom/ https://youtu.be/2NPBaqRGcOs

Caveman is fun, but the real tool you want to reduce token usage is headroom https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop (mac app) https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom (cli)

Yeah, the change has been very noticeable imo. Did you already try tools that can help to reduce token usage cost so you can get more prompts in within your same plan? Some great ones are https://github.com/gglucass/headroom-desktop https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill