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Cutting LLM Token Costs with rtk, headroom, and caveman - savings measured on real workloads

Via r/LocalLlama
Thursday, Jun 18, 2026 · 4:16PM
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rtk, headroom, and caveman keep showing up whenever someone posts about cutting their token bill 60-90%. I wanted to know what they save on an actual bill instead of a benchmark, so I replayed all three over my own Claude Code history. My corpus was 500 of my own Claude Code sessions, 614M tokens an

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