Shagufta Riaz

We benchmarked Codex alone against Codex routed through Edgee's compression gateway on the same repo, with the same model, under the same workflow. The result: Codex + Edgee used 49.5% fewer input tokens, improved cache hit rate from 76.1% to 85.4%, and reduced total session cost by 35.6%. This post breaks down why context compression makes Codex more efficient, more frugal, and materially cheaper to run without sacrificing useful output.

You're mid-task. Claude is in flow. Then the plan limit hits and everything stops. You know the feeling — the session cuts out, the context is gone, and you're starting over. For heavy Claude Code users, this isn't an occasional annoyance. It's a regular ceiling on what you can get done in a day. We built Edgee's Claude Code Compressor to push that ceiling back.

Edgee compresses prompts before they reach LLM providers and reduces token costs by up to 50%. Same code, fewer tokens, lower bills.