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Are terminal compression tools actually saving us money?

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We tested one of the most popular ones across 1,740 Terminal-Bench 2.1 runs with Fable 5.0 + Claude Code and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Huge reported token savings. Almost no improvement in the final bill. Token compression ≠ cost optimization. Research with results in the comment:

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  1. 2026-09-12 08:11 · r/AI_Agents
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