AI Cost & Token Optimization
Cutting your AI bill — free model routing through Open Router, running models locally to offload work, token-saving Claude Code commands, opus-plan-mode tricks.
How to Connect Firecrawl to Claude Code and Cut Web Scraping Token Costs by 80%
Firecrawl's MCP connector gives Claude Code clean web data instead of raw HTML — cutting token use by up to 80%. Here's the setup and a live lead gen demo.
How to Optimize MCP Server Token Usage: Code Execution, Tool Search, and TOON
MCP servers can burn 50% of your context window before a single message. Learn 10 techniques—including code execution and TOON—to cut usage by up to 98%.
How to Reduce Token Usage in AI Agents: 10 MCP Optimization Techniques
MCP servers can burn through your context window fast. These 10 techniques—from code execution to TOON encoding—can cut token usage by up to 98%.
How to Convert Files to Markdown to Reduce AI Token Usage by Up to 90%
HTML, PDF, and DOCX files waste tokens on formatting noise. Converting to Markdown before feeding AI can cut token usage by 65–90% with no quality loss.
How to Manage Deployment Costs When Building with AI Coding Agents
Unexpected cloud bills are common when AI agents deploy code at speed. Here's how to configure Vercel, build times, and concurrent builds.
What Is Claude Code's Advisor Strategy? How to Use Opus as an Adviser With Sonnet or Haiku
The Anthropic Advisor Strategy pairs Opus as a senior adviser with Sonnet or Haiku as executor. Learn how it cuts costs 11% while improving code quality.
How to Save Tokens in Claude Code Using Opus Plan Mode
Using /model opus-plan in Claude Code switches to Opus for planning and Sonnet for execution, extending your session limit without sacrificing quality.
How to Save Tokens in Claude Code Using the Opus Plan Mode
Use /model opus-plan in Claude Code to plan with Opus and execute with Sonnet. This guide shows how to extend your session limit and cut token costs.
AI Token Management: Why Your Claude Code Session Drains Faster Than It Should
Token costs compound exponentially in long conversations. Learn the 18 habits that drain your Claude Code session and how to fix each one.
Claude Code MCP Servers and Token Overhead: What You Need to Know
Each connected MCP server loads tool definitions into every message, costing up to 18,000 tokens per turn. Here's how to audit and reduce that overhead.
18 Claude Code Token Management Hacks to Extend Your Session
Stop burning through your Claude Code session limit. These 18 token management techniques can double or triple your effective usage per session.
How to Build a Web Scraping Skill for AI Agents: Token Reduction and Stop Conditions
Generic scraping skills waste tokens and fail silently. Learn how to build targeted scraping skills with structured output, limits, and incremental runs.
How to Optimize Web Scraping Skills for AI Agents: 6 Token-Saving Techniques
Learn how to reduce token usage by 90% in web scraping AI agent skills by filtering HTML, hardcoding selectors, batching requests, and using incremental runs.
How to Use the Claude Code /btw Command to Save Tokens and Ask Questions Mid-Task
The Claude Code /btw command lets you ask questions or add context without interrupting your main thread — cutting token costs by up to 50%.