1,740 runs show token compression tools barely cut the final bill
Bartaseth · reddit · 2026-09-12
The author benchmarked a popular terminal token-compression tool across 1,740 Terminal-Bench 2.1 runs with Fable 5.0 + Claude Code and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Reported token savings were large, but the final bill barely improved — token compression ≠ cost optimization.
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