We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents (opens in new tab)

--- title: "We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents - Infracost" published: "May 18, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC" --- Resources / Blog / # We cut Claude's token usage 79% by redesigning our CLI for agents May 18, 2026 Product Update We redesigned the Infracost CLI for agent callers and cut Claude's output token usage by up to 79% and API cost by up to 67% versus a bare-Claude baseline. Benchmark: 16 questions over a 3-project Terraform fixture with 1,171 resources, Opus,...