Headroom Review 2026: Cut AI Agent Token Costs by 92%
If you’re a heavy Claude Code or Cursor user, you know the feeling: one innocent “search the codebase” command and boom — 20,000 tokens gone. $0.30 per query doesn’t sound like much until you’re doing it 50 times a day. I’ve been watching my API bills creep up for months. Honestly, I was starting to wonder if AI coding agents were a luxury I couldn’t justify for side projects. So when I saw a project called Headroom trending on GitHub (+9,421 stars this week alone), I had to check it out. The pitch is simple: compress everything you send to the LLM before it gets there. Save 60–95% on tokens. Keep the same answer quality. ...