Savings tracker

AI coding cost & savings tracker

Pick your tool, set how your work splits across task difficulty, and see your annual cost reduction — broken down by task complexity, by model, and by supported tool.

Most bills come from one habit: reaching for the top-tier model on every call. Cheaper triages each request and routes it to the cheapest model that still clears the bar, escalating only for the hard, correctness-critical work. Estimate that below, then see exactly where the money goes.

Estimate your savings

Your task mix — how your requests split by difficulty
Estimated annual savings
$0
Baseline assumes you run the top-tier model on every request. Prices are illustrative output rates ($/Mtok) with equal token weight per task; your real numbers come from the gateway monitor. Simple work drops to a model ~5–20× cheaper; complex work stays on the frontier.

Where your money goes

Same estimate, three views of the cost reduction. Use the projection slider to scale it from a single month out to two years — it defaults to a full year.

1 moProjection: 12 months (1 year)24 mo

Test it on your real history

The estimate above is a model. Want your actual numbers? After installing, run one local, read-only command — cheaper peek scans your existing .claude, .codex, … chat logs and reports exactly what routing would have saved, in tokens and dollars. Nothing leaves your machine; it classifies prompt text only, never your files or tool output.

npx cheaperapp peek                 # scan all history
cheaper peek --days 30              # just the last 30 days
cheaper peek --harness claude-code  # one tool  ·  add --json to script it
cheaper peek — what adaptive routing would have saved
scanned last 30d across your harness chat logs

harnesscallsdowngradabletokensyou’d save
● Claude Code1,284876 (68%)18.4M$41.20
◐ Codex412223 (54%)5.1M$7.80
○ CursorDB-backed (not yet readable)

Total  1,696 calls · 1,099 downgradable · from you 1,204 / sub-agents 492
Spent on record   $71.40
Could have saved  $49.00 (69% off) · 14.9M tokens re-routable
Annualized        $596/yr (extrapolated from 30d)

Biggest opportunities (top-tier calls that didn’t need it):
  $0.38  opus→haiku   you   rename getUser to fetchUser across the repo
  $0.31  opus→haiku   sub-agent   list the files in src/components

Illustrative output. The real command reads your own logs locally; the web tracker above is the same math without the file access.

How it works with your tool

Point the tool at the Cheaper gateway (it speaks both the Anthropic and OpenAI-compatible APIs), then watch the monitor turn the estimate above into measured numbers:

npx cheaperapp install --all
cheaper gateway start
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8787
cheaper monitor

Read the docs → · See every supported tool →