CuToken
Cut Down Your Token Usage with CuToken.
The more an AI product grows, the more tokens it burns.
And sometimes you're paying for tokens that didn't need to be there in the first place.
That’s the problem I’m trying to solve with CuToken — helping AI products understand and optimize their token usage before the bill gets out of hand.
Still building, testing, and figuring things out.
Would love to hear from other founders building with LLMs:
• How are you currently keeping your token/API costs under control?
If you’re shipping anything on GPT / Claude / Gemini, you’ve probably felt this:
Same product. Same quality. Bill goes up because prompts got longer — more instructions, more context, more “please carefully…”.
A big chunk of that spend is often pure filler tokens. Not smarter prompts. Just more words.
Curious for people actually feeling this in production:
Roughly what % of your monthly AI budget is input tokens vs output?
Have you tried any prompt compression / cleanup — or is it still “just write shorter”?
What’s the highest monthly LLM bill you’ve hit so far?
Building CuToken (cutoken.in) around this exact pain: compress the prompt, keep the intent, cut the waste.
Drop your numbers / stack in the comments — useful to see how common this is beyond hobby usage.
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1Definitely relatable. Input tokens can quietly become a huge cost once prompts start accumulating context and instructions. I think the tricky part is reducing tokens without removing information the model actually needs. Curious to see how CuToken handles that trade-off in practice.
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Spot on—that’s the ultimate tightrope. Saving pennies isn’t worth it if the app starts hallucinating or missing edge cases.
We built CuToken to strip out the conversational fluff humans use (but models don't need) while keeping core instructions 100% intact.
You can actually test it out yourself-Just by signup you will get 5 free PRO Prompt optimiztion .
If you drop a bloated prompt in there, let me know how the before/after looks!
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The cat-and-room concept gives the habit tracking a very different feel from the usual productivity apps. The 10-day challenge origin story is interesting too.
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