5 Strategies to Optimize Token Usage Effectively

Here are 5 things that actually cut your token consumption 👇

→ Start a new chat when you switch topics. Old conversation history gets resent every turn. This alone cuts 40-60% of your usage.

→ Say "answer in 3 sentences." Controlling the AI's reply length saves more than anything you do on your side. Most people skip this.

→ Don't paste the full document. Paste only the section you need help with. A 3-page excerpt costs a fraction of a 30-page PDF.

→ Use /compact in Claude Code. It summarizes your entire history and frees up context space. Single most underused command.

→ Turn on prompt caching. If you send the same large context repeatedly, cache it. Saves 50-90% on repeated context.