Token Saver — Claude Code Cost Optimization

Overview

A routing and habits guide to cut Claude API costs. The core idea: match the tool to the task — use free/cheap tools for simple work, and reserve expensive models for genuinely hard problems.

Quick Reference

FREE    → Ollama  (commits, summaries, translations, explanations)
CHEAP   → Haiku   (quick lookups, simple one-liners)
DEFAULT → Sonnet  (daily coding, features, bugs)
DEEP    → Opus    (architecture, security, complex refactors only)