Slash Claude costs: How to save 15M tokens monthly with /doctor and config tweaks
dotey · x · 2026-09-02
Two practical tips to significantly reduce Claude API costs:
- Disable 1M context: Set CLAUDECODEDISABLE1MCONTEXT=1 in settings to budget sessions with a 200K window instead.
- Use /doctor: This command clears unused skills, MCPs, and bloated CLAUDE.md files. The author freed up 10K of persistent bloat in 2 minutes.
Calculations based on 50 daily Agent Sessions suggest a saving of 500k tokens daily (15M monthly), plus reduced latency and re-work caused by long context retrieval issues.
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