optimAIzr

Spend fewer tokens on the same work.

optimAIzr is a local CLI that finds wasted tokens in Claude Code, Codex and your own API calls, shows what each fix would save, and checks it on your own traffic before you switch. No account, no upload, no telemetry. It reads token counts, never your prompts.

First presented on September 13, 2026, and open source since September 30, 2026.

npm i -g optimaizr
optimaizr profile

Or try it once without installing: npx optimaizr profile.

What it does

See where your tokens go

optimaizr profile reads the sessions already on your machine and puts spend, waste and the biggest fix on one screen.

  Spend                     $476.70  $452.56/month at the last 30 days' rate
  Calls                       4,062
  Tokens                     743.4M  739.7M in / 3.7M out

  Flagged calls                 931  22.9% of calls
  Potential savings       $44.59/mo  $542.48/year

  ! Model mismatch

    17% of your requests use a model whose capabilities exceed the
    detected workload requirements.
    671 calls affected.

Find out why

optimaizr why breaks spend down by provider, model, project and kind of work, each level as a share of the one above.

  $132.47 total  across 1,807 requests

    anthropic                         $132.47  100% 1807 calls
      -> sonnet-5                         $99.47   75% 1640 calls
        -> kopshti-back                   $93.34   94% 1541 calls
          -> Mechanical                   $36.11   39% 746 calls
          -> Reasoning                    $27.52   29% 335 calls
          -> Generation                   $15.22   16% 141 calls

Catch waste while you work

optimaizr live runs beside your agent and raises a fix the moment a pattern shows up. Press Y and your app switches from its next request, or Claude Code from its next session.

  ⚡ optimAIzr

  This task looks suitable for a cheaper model.

  Current:       Sonnet 5
  Suggested:     Haiku 4.5
  Observed cost: $0.202 / 26 calls

  [Y] Apply optimization
  [N] Continue
  [D] Why?

Know what a fix is worth

Every finding comes with its own arithmetic: what the traffic costs now, what it would cost after, and how far to trust the figure. --why prints the full calculation and every assumption.

MEDIUM  441 mechanical calls ran on an over-specified model
        $5.76/mo est.  |  $70.12/yr  |  needs verification  |  model-selection

        now    $14.07  ->  after     $6.75  (441 calls, 12% of spend)
        confidence medium   quality impact medium   basis estimated

Prove it before you switch

optimaizr verify replays your own recorded requests on the cheaper option and scores the answers against your quality bar, so you never trade cost for worse output.

   PASS   40 samples replayed

  cost/call   $0.0121 -> $0.0034
  projected   $61.40/mo saved
  this check cost you $0.38

  Quality checks
    ok   no-refusal               candidate 40/40, baseline 40/40
    ok   tool-name-matches        candidate 39/40, baseline 39/40

Stay under your limits

On Claude Pro, Max or Team, --plan pro shows your 5-hour sessions and how much of each goes on waste. On ChatGPT plans it reads OpenAI's own meter from Codex. On a company budget, --budget 300 names the day the money runs out.

  ChatGPT Plus            $20.00/mo  what you pay
  API-equivalent         $117.72/mo  5.9x what you pay
  5-hour window                 82%  used · resets 01:49 · a full window ~$4.76
  Weekly window                 38%  used · resets Sep 25, 22:49
  Waste                          9%  fix it and you'd hit the limits ~10% later

Works with

13 detectors cover oversized models, cache misses, bloated prompts, repeated file reads, retry loops, runaway reasoning, cost spikes and more.

Commands

Run optimaizr --help for everything.

Privacy

Everything runs on your machine and stays in ~/.optimaizr/. The only network calls are verify (to your own provider, with your own key) and the optional Jev second opinion. SECURITY.md lists every file read and written.

Documentation

• Package README: the full usage guide
• CLI reference: every command, flag and figure explained
• Changelog
• optimaizr.com/docs

Development

npm install && npm run build && npm test

Requires Node 20.11+. See CONTRIBUTING.

optimAIzr Pro, the hosted product coming to optimaizr.com, is separate from this repository.

License

MIT