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The Tools to Halve Your AI Bill Are Free. Nobody at the Company Owns Them.

The Tools to Halve Your AI Bill Are Free. Nobody at the Company Owns Them.

A cold Claude Code session loses half its 200K context window to system overhead and autocompact reserve before you type a single token. One environment flag, MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=10000, has been documented to halve a daily bill. Claude consumes 3.2x to 4.2x the tokens of OpenAI Codex for a 1.4-point quality delta. The tools to cut AI costs are free and mature. The reason companies do not install them is the reason 83 percent of boards do not oversee AI governance at all.

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