{"id":114944,"title":"Quotient Labs: Stop overpaying Claude for tokens you don't need","tagline":"We cut your Claude Code costs by 47% in one line of install. Same models, same workflow, half the price.","body":"**TLDR**: **Tokenmaxxing is out. Tokenminning is in.** Quotient Labs sits on top of Claude Code and reduces the amount of context you pay for—without changing your models, prompts, projects, or workflow. Across real, multi-step developer workflows, we’ve benchmarked **47% lower token cost with no measured quality loss.** Get started today at \u003chttps://www.quotientlabs.com/\u003e.\n\n**The Problem**\n\nCoding agents accumulate a lot of context.\n\nEvery file read, search result, test run, tool output, generated plan, and conversation turn gets added to the session. As the session grows, this history is repeatedly re-read (and re-billed) long after it has stopped being useful in its original form. The result? **You’re overpaying Claude for tokens your agent never needed.**\n\n**Fermat’s Last Token** (our main product) sits on top of Claude Code and optimizes what enters and remains in your model’s context. We do this in four ways:\n\n1. **Faster, more cost-efficient agent tools** that batch operations and return compact, information-dense results.\n2. **Bash output compression** that preserves the useless parts of long command and test outputs while removing the bloat.\n3. **Live text compression** that removes the information-sparse and irrelevant tokens in conversation turns before they ever compound in cost. \n4. **Idle context optimization** that compresses older conversation history as the prompt cache expires (this is more often than you think; only 5 minutes TTL) while preserving the freshest context verbatim.\n\nThe important part: **you keep using Claude Code exactly as you do today.**\n\n**Observability**: See real-time estimated cost and savings down to the session and request level, as well as manage your organizations and users, in the user dashboard: \u003chttps://console.quotientlabs.com/\u003e. \n\n**Ready to go in 30 seconds.** Install Fermat, sign in, and continue using Claude Code normally:\n\n**curl -fsSL [https://downloads.quotientlabs.com/fermat/install.sh](https://downloads.quotientlabs.com/fermat/install.sh) | bash \u0026amp;\u0026amp; fermat login**\n\n**Fermat is compatible with both CLI and the VS Code extension.** Your existing projects, prompts, models, integrations, and interface are untouched.\n\nYou can bypass Fermat (if you really want) on a particular chat any time with _claude --vanilla._ You can also fully uninstall in one line with _fermat uninstall_ (though we don’t recommend either :)).\n\n**Our ask**\n\nWe’re looking for devs and engineering teams who use Claude Code heavily, especially on long-running, tool-intensive engineering tasks. \n\nWe’d love to get feedback on where Fermat helps the most, where compression could be better, and any features or changes you’d like to see.\n\nGet started: \u003chttps://quotientlabs.com/\u003e\n\nOr message us directly: [founders@quotientlabs.com](mailto:founders@quotientlabs.com)\n\n**Founders**\n\nBefore Quotient Labs, we’ve been at Stanford (BS+MS CS/AI), industry (Apple, AWS, Accenture) and in academia (with multiple publications).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=114944\u0026key=user_uploads/3146534/39cb7ad4-595a-428f-aa75-7a0570a93673)\n\n","slug":"Ttw-quotient-labs-stop-overpaying-claude-for-tokens-you-don-t-need","created_at":"2026-09-14T15:33:54.262Z","updated_at":"2026-09-19T09:00:28.133Z","total_vote_count":8,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ttw-quotient-labs-stop-overpaying-claude-for-tokens-you-don-t-need","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=114944\u0026key=user_uploads/3146534/39cb7ad4-595a-428f-aa75-7a0570a93673","company":{"id":31082,"name":"Quotient Labs","slug":"quotient-labs","url":"https://quotientlabs.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/67e517c455ab1e170ed6b2628a4dce9546f07490.png","batch":"Winter 2026","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Developer Tools","SaaS"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31082"}}