Frugal Tokens - Explore costs and usage across coding agents
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Frugal Tokens is a demo tool that visualizes token usage and costs for AI coding agents. It provides detailed metrics on processed tokens, cache reuse, reasoning output, and per-session costs, helping developers optimize their AI interactions. With a user-friendly interface, it enables you to monitor and compare the efficiency of different coding sessions, making it easier to manage expenses and improve performance.
Frugal Tokens gives you a clear, actionable breakdown of token costs and cache efficiency, empowering you to optimize your AI coding workflows.
- gen220
Really cool to see the difference in token usage across different harnesses.
These kind of independently-verified data points will be super important for companies (and individuals!) trying to measure RoI on token spend as they recover from letting people go wild on token usage in the past year.
- stephensilber
I have started using this to inspect some of my heavier sessions and it has helped uncover some of the parts of my workflow and my project's build pipeline that were really slowing me down.
I also had no idea how many cache misses were happening when I stepped away for an hour or more at times.
- ixtli
dug around in there briefly and the per-session explorer is the best part imo