The #1 tool to cut your AI agent's token bill.

Ranked #1 on the Token-Harness Optimizer Leaderboard. Zero config.

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Tokenade is the simplest way to cut what your coding agent sends to the model — set it up once and save on every prompt.

Get started in 30 seconds
$ npm install -g @tokenade/cli
$ tokenade install
$ tokenade login

10M free tokens / month — just create a free account

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What Tokenade does

Less tokens, same results — automatically, on every prompt.

Command compaction

Noisy command output, compacted

Builds, tests, logs, MCP tool results — Tokenade trims every noisy output your agent triggers down to what actually matters, before the model reads a single line. The compactors are smart: failures, numbers and the decisive lines always survive, so your agent never has to re-run a command raw to get around the compression.

Unlike other popular tools, your agent won't fight the compaction to recover lost information.

935 command-specific compactors — 672 Linux · 129 macOS · 134 Windows

  • docker logs0%
  • cargo test0%
  • git log0%
  • k8s manifests0%
  • pytest0%

Measured compression — real sessions & benchmark corpus.

MCP optimization

Your MCP servers, on a token diet

One command wraps every MCP server you use — GitHub, databases, browsers and more — behind Tokenade's proxy. Verbose JSON results are compacted in transit by tool-aware compactors, tool manifests are stripped down to their callable skeleton, and tools that can't run on your machine aren't even advertised to the agent.

  • 0%on GitHub MCP responses, measured over real sessions
  • 0%on verbose tool manifests — every tool stays fully callable

Real mcp-proxy telemetry · schemas keep names, types and required params intact.

Web search

Web search, rebuilt for agents

Tokenade replaces your agent's built-in web search with its own engine: the same answers, delivered as compact result lists instead of walls of rendered text — and cheaper, on every single search. If a search ever fails, it falls back to the native tool automatically, so you're never worse off.

  • 0%tokens per search vs the agent's native tool
  • 0%faster than the built-in web search
  • 0%as reliable — with automatic fallback to the native tool

vs Claude Code's built-in WebSearch.

Code search

A local search that understands your code

Tokenade indexes and parses your project, then hands your agent real code-intelligence tools: semantic search to find code by meaning, map for the repo structure, query to jump to any symbol, skeleton for a file's signatures, impact for dependents. Because Tokenade knows what's a function and what's a variable, your agent stops reading whole files just to find one.

  • 0%tokens on code-navigation tasks
  • 0%tool calls to reach the same answer
  • 0%tokens per file read with skeleton

Tokenade estimates — measured on real code-navigation tasks.

Lean output

Models that skip the small talk

Tokenade prompts your model to drop the pleasantries, recaps and filler — and keep every technical detail. Output tokens are the most expensive ones, so terser answers cut your bill directly. Measured against vanilla Claude Code and Caveman on THOL, the Token-Harness Optimizer Leaderboard.

Output-token reduction

  • Tokenade0%
  • Caveman0%

Measured against vanilla Claude Code and Caveman — long sessions (>200k tokens), THOL benchmark.

Context optimization

A context window managed like a budget

Tokenade knows exactly when your prompt cache expires, and compacts old context before it gets re-billed as fresh input. Resuming an old session? Stale oversized results are masked — and recoverable on demand. And when several commands can run at once, Tokenade batches them, turning multi-round back-and-forths into a single turn.

  • 0%cache prefix — compaction fires early, before expiry re-billing
  • 0turn instead of several — independent commands run batched
Read deduplication

Never pay for the same bytes twice

Agents re-read the same things constantly — the same file, the same git status, the same tool output. Instead of re-serving identical bytes, Tokenade sends back a tiny reference — or just the diff against the previous read when the content changed. And it works everywhere: file reads, command outputs, tool results.

  • 0%on the output of a command run a second time
  • 0%on a file re-read identically

Measured on real sessions — the full bytes stay recoverable on demand.

Documents & media

Your agent reads the whole repo, not just the code

Point your agent at a PDF spec, a spreadsheet of results or a recorded meeting and it improvises — its built-in reader if it has one, otherwise whatever converter it can shell out to. You get an answer, and the raw output lands in your context at full price. Tokenade extracts them properly instead: over a hundred formats read and searched like any other file, media as metadata plus a transcript, images converted to something your agent can actually display.

Works on every agent Tokenade supports — nothing to configure.

  • 0%tokens on a PDF read, vs Claude Code's built-in reader
  • 0+formats read natively — documents, images, audio, video

PDF, Office and OpenDocument, EPUB, 17 image formats, 65 audio/video — plus magic-byte detection for files with a wrong or missing extension.

Privacy

Your code never leaves your machine

Tokenade is local-first: no code, no prompts, no file paths ever reach our servers — only aggregate counters (how many tokens were saved, and by which feature). Your full detailed stats exist in exactly one place: your machine.

  • No code, prompts or file paths ever uploaded
  • The server only sees aggregate counters — tokens saved, and by which feature
  • Full detailed stats available in one place only: locally
EU GDPR compliantGDPR compliant
Security

Tokenade stops secret leaks

By default, Tokenade redacts secrets before they are ever sent to your AI model. What your agent reads on your machine, the model — and its provider — never sees.

  • Cookies, session tokens & HTTP auth
  • Generic credentials in prompts, configs & CLI flags
  • PEM & crypto private keys
  • 94 provider token formats (AWS, GitHub, Stripe, OpenAI…)
  • Payment card numbers, checksum-validated

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  • Works on Linux, macOS & Windows
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