Zukko Blog
Guides to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and the Claude and GPT APIs: setup, token savings and troubleshooting.
How to Reduce Token Usage in Claude Code
3 min · · claude-code
The bill grows not from the number of tasks but from the context sent with each request. Here are practices that remove unnecessary tokens.
context_length_exceeded — the context window is full
2 min · · errors
The model refused because your request does not fit. What makes up the context window and what to cut first.
Why your token count is higher than your prompt
2 min · · tokens
A five-word question shows up as thousands of tokens in your usage. That is not a billing bug — here is the breakdown.
What the Claude API really costs
3 min · · pricing
A rate per million tokens means nothing until you know your own workload. Here is how to actually estimate it.