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How to lower Claude and Anthropic API spend
Claude is priced on tokens in and tokens out. Long agent sessions resend the same files and tool results. Tokand cuts that pile before Anthropic bills it, and the model stays Claude.
Why Claude Code and Claude chat get expensive
Chat is a short prompt. Claude Code, and any Claude agent with tools, keeps a growing trace: file reads, command output, and earlier turns. Each new call can resend that history. Anthropic documents token billing on the Claude pricing page.
Drop Tokand in front, keep Claude
Use the OpenAI-compatible hop at https://api.tokand.com/v1 where your client accepts a base URL, or pass one request and a sender with tokand(request, sender). The latest user message, the system prompt, and tool results stay verbatim. Older filler in chat prose can be tightened only on the Aggressive+ setting, and that setting is off unless you pick it.
What this is not
- Not a cheaper Claude substitute. Answers come from the same model you selected.
- Not a prompt-rewrite product. Tokand is a filter in front of the call, not a new chatbot.
- Not an outage in the middle of a session. Fail-open sends the original request if Tokand is down.
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