--- title: How I Stopped Running out of Tokens | daily.dev description: A developer shares practical techniques for reducing Claude Code token consumption after hitting org-level spend limits mid-month. Covers monitoring tools... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-stopped-running-out-of-tokens-34nevkfp6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I Stopped Running out of Tokens | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares practical techniques for reducing Claude Code token consumption after hitting org-level spend limits mid-month. Covers monitoring tools... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-stopped-running-out-of-tokens-34nevkfp6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/34nevkFP6.png og:image:alt: How I Stopped Running out of Tokens og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Stopped Running out of Tokens **[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 13 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares practical techniques for reducing Claude Code token consumption after hitting org-level spend limits mid-month. Covers monitoring tools (Claude Code Usage Monitor), input-saving tools (rtk, which compresses CLI command output), output-saving tools (Caveman, which strips filler from responses), and structural query tools (CodeGraph, which stores codebase relationships in SQLite). Also covers workflow habits: defaulting to Sonnet instead of Opus, using the advisor feature to delegate to Opus only when needed, scoping prompts tightly, auditing CLAUDE.md to replace always-load file references with conditional ones, and clearing conversation context frequently. The author reports a measurable drop in daily spend after applying these techniques. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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