JetBrains says rtk costs more. My dashboard says 11.6M saved. Both are right.
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JetBrains spent about $320 of API credit in July to test rtk, the shell proxy tens of thousands of us installed to save tokens in Claude Code. Their sessions came out 7.6% more expensive per task. Two weeks earlier the same team measured caveman, the skill that advertises a 65% cut, and got 8.5%. I…
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- 2026-09-06 15:33 · DEV Community — AI
JetBrains says rtk costs more. My dashboard says 11.6M saved. Both are right.