Headroom

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. ...

Headroom Review 2026: Cut AI Agent Token Costs by 60-95% Without Losing Accuracy Running AI coding agents daily? You’ve probably noticed the token bills. Every tool output, every log line, every RAG chunk gets fed to the LLM — and you pay for all of it. Headroom is a context compression layer that sits between your agent and the LLM, shrinking inputs by 60-95% while preserving answer quality. Meta Description: Headroom compresses AI agent inputs by 60-95% without losing accuracy. Tested with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more. Includes benchmarks, quick start guide, and honest comparison. ...