pxpipe Compresses Claude Code Context Into Images, Cutting Bills by 70%
dr_cintas · x · 2026-07-04
A developer created pxpipe, a lightweight proxy sitting between AI coding tools and the API. It consumes the most token-heavy context (system prompts, tool docs, old chat history) and compresses it into images before sending. The model can still read these images just like text. The trick relies on image tokens being priced by pixel dimensions rather than character count, reducing the cost of dense content like code and JSON to about a third of the original.
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