Claude Code: 6 Tips to Cut Costs by 90%
Save up to 90% on Claude Code costs with 6 practical tips on caching, model switching, file mentions, and command flags.
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I share 6 money-saving tips for Claude Code.
Although these are specifically about Claude Code, I believe they have universal value and can be applied to other code agent clients as well.
1. Casually use /clear between tasks
Everything in the conversation—files that have been read, outputs from commands that have been run—gets resent with every subsequent turn.
Hitting the cache makes it cheap, but cheap doesn’t mean it takes up no space. The model still has to carry all that baggage while thinking in every turn.
Leftovers from the previous task sitting in the conversation are pure noise for the next one.
Doing a /clear before starting something new simply wipes that noise clean. The new conversation starts from zero, and this action itself incurs no extra cost.
Some people worry that using clear will cause loss of contextual information.
Before that, I recommend managing a local knowledge base properly—i.e., abstract and compress previous session content into contextual information that the model can fully utilize later.
