New 60 fact-checked token-saving tips — and counting

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30–60%
Typical waste in unoptimised AI usage
60
Actionable tips, each fact-checked
9
Categories from prompting to billing
$9/mo
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Works with the tools you already pay for

ChatGPTClaudeGemini GitHub CopilotCursorOpenAI APIAnthropic API
How it works

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Each tip is a single, concrete habit with a before/after example — trim a prompt, cache a prefix, right-size a model.

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Fewer tokens in and out means lower bills and faster responses — without sacrificing the quality of the output.

Why people read it

Signal, not snake oil

The internet is full of vague "write better prompts" advice. We ship specifics you can act on today.

Fact-checked, not hand-wavy

Every tip is reviewed for technical accuracy before it ships — no invented statistics, no claims that fall apart under scrutiny.

One habit at a time

Bite-sized and specific. Each issue is a single technique with a concrete before/after, so you can apply it in minutes.

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Vendor-neutral

Tips that work across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the raw APIs — plus coding assistants like Copilot and Cursor.

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Money, not just tokens

We translate token mechanics into the thing you actually care about: a smaller monthly bill and faster apps.

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Beginner → advanced

From "stop pasting the whole doc every turn" to prompt caching, batching and model cascades for production pipelines.

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A taste of the library

Real tips, free to read

These 22 Beginner tips are free forever. The 38 advanced tactics — caching, batching, model cascades — unlock with Pro.

⚙️Batching & Automation ~50% on input + output tokens

Move Every Non-Urgent Job to the Batch API and Pay Half Price

If a job doesn't need an answer in the next few seconds, send it through the Batch API instead of the live endpoint. The exact same request costs half as much.

Beginner 1 min Read →
💻Coding Assistants Often cuts output tokens 40-70% on edits to large files, varies by file size

Ask for the Patch, Not the Whole File

When editing an existing file, tell the assistant to return only the changed lines as a diff or snippet instead of regenerating the entire file.

Beginner 1 min Read →
🧠Context Management Images can be 1,000-2,000+ tokens each; removing stale ones cuts that per turn

Drop the Screenshot Once the Model Has Read It

Images, PDFs, and attachments are charged as tokens and re-sent every turn in a multimodal thread. After the model has described or transcribed one, you usually don't need to keep sending the pixels.

Beginner 2 min Read →
📊Measurement & Budgeting 10-30% on prompts you would have sent bloated

Count Tokens Before You Hit Send, Not After the Bill Arrives

Measure a prompt's token count before sending it, so you catch oversized context while trimming it is still free.

Beginner 1 min Read →
🎚️Model Selection 60-80% on routed traffic

Stop Paying Frontier Prices for Boilerplate Work

Most of your token spend is on tasks a small model handles perfectly. Match the model to the job instead of defaulting to your most expensive option for everything.

Beginner 1 min Read →
📐Output Control Shrinks classification and routing outputs substantially, frequently 5-15x fewer output tokens per call

Return IDs and Enums, Not Sentences

For classification, routing, and selection tasks, have the model emit a short code, ID, or enum value instead of a polite sentence. The downstream code only needs the token, not the prose around it.

Beginner 2 min Read →
Do the math

What is the waste costing you?

Most teams leave 30–60% of their AI spend on the table. Slide to your reality.

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Conservative estimate. Redundant context, oversized models and verbose outputs are the usual culprits.

$160
$1,920 / year
That's 17× the cost of Pro — it pays for itself.
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We'd rather send one tip you actually use than five you skim. Each one is checked against how tokenization, context windows and provider pricing really work — so you can trust it before you change anything.

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A real before / after

Re-pasting a 3,000-token spec on every follow-up:

2 questions, doc re-sent each time~6,000 tokens

Sending it once, then just the questions:

Same 2 questions, doc sent once~3,000 tokens

That's half the input tokens for identical answers — the same idea as our free "paste the snippet, not the whole file" tip. Read it free, then unlock the rest.

Questions

Good questions, straight answers

Yes — the weekly email and all 22 Beginner tips are free forever, no credit card. Pro ($9/month) unlocks the 38 advanced tips and sends a fresh one every morning.
No. The whole point is to cut waste — redundant context, oversized models, verbose output — not the signal that drives good answers. Many tips actually improve reliability by reducing noise.
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