A Netflix Engineer Built a Free Tool That Cuts Your AI Token Bill by 88%
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Netflix engineer Tejas Chopra built Headroom, a free open-source tool that sits between AI agents and language models, stripping out redundant data before it reaches the model. Instead of sending 10,000 lines of log files, Headroom compresses them to just the useful parts, cutting token usage by 60–95% with no loss in answer quality. Released in January 2026, it has already saved users roughly $700,000 across 200 billion tokens.
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