Solution
Agent spend grows every month and you cannot see why. See it. Cut it. One bill.
Every request passes Context Mode, so the console shows each one's tokens, cost and saving. In our test, a long session saved $4,715 per 1,000 sessions at list price.
Which agent request cost what?
Today
- One total on the model bill
- No view of each request
- No saving to measure
Through Context Mode
- Live: each request as it happens
- Tokens, cost and saving for each request
- Analytics: cost and saving over time
The console shows this for the requests on your account. On Codex, part of the saving is not counted yet.
Your team runs 1,000 long sessions. What do you save?
Saved at list price: $4,715 per 1,000 sessions
one 30-step session on Claude Opus 5.5
4 of 4 paired runs cost lessMeasured in paired runs. The method is on the benchmarks page.
On Team: the pool runs out. What happens?
Team pool: 50,000 requests a month per seat
Budget: set by the team owner
At the limit: paused for the team until next month
Requests go straight to the model.
No error and no refused request.
Paused: Context Saving, Thinking in Code,
Memory and Skills
Stays on: Protect's Core protectionsThe budget sets what you pay us, not the model bill. Your own Anthropic or OpenAI account pays the model. We add no fee on tokens.
The bill goes up. No one can say why.
Each engineer's agent talks to the model alone. The bill shows a total, not what each request cost.
Plans are bought one person at a time, each with its own bill and its own limit.
Agent permissions live in each client, on each laptop. A new hire starts with none.
Every request passes one place. You see and cut it there.
- 01Roll it out
Send each engineer one command:
npx @context-mode/cli. From then on, their requests show in the console. - 02See and cut
The console shows each request's tokens, cost and saving. Context Saving folds long tool output before the model reads it.
- 03One pool, one bill
On Team, the seats share one pool of requests and one bill. The owner sets the budget for what you pay us, and one Protect policy covers the org.
Lower spend, the same work. Measured in paired runs.
Paired runs of Claude Code direct and through Context Mode, each with a plan written before the first pair. The cost of one session is on Cut agent spend. Method and sources →
One plan per engineer, or one Team. Same features.
| Team | Pro, one per engineer | |
|---|---|---|
| Requests | 50,000 a month per seat, one pool | 50,000 a month for each person |
| Budget | Set by the team owner | Each person sets their own |
| Bill | One bill to the team owner, 2 seats or more | A bill for each person |
| Protect | One policy for the org; an agent cannot loosen it | Each person's own rules |
| At the limit | Paused for the team until next month | Paused until next month, or a budget you set |
| Model cost | Your own Anthropic or OpenAI account. We add no fee on tokens. | The same |
From Pricing and Plans and limits. At a limit your agents keep working: requests go straight to the model, Context Saving, Thinking in Code, Memory and Skills pause, and Protect's Core protections stay on. The budget sets what you pay us, not the model bill.
What this uses.
Folds test, build and log output before the model reads it. Errors stay in full.
Live and Analytics: tokens, cost and saving for each request.
Checks every tool call before your terminal runs it. One policy for the whole org.
One pool of requests for every seat, and one budget the team owner sets.
Related: Plans and limits, Benchmarks, Cut agent spend, For startups, Team standards.
See what agents cost, and cut it. Talk to us about Team.
npx @context-mode/cli connects your agents. 1,000 requests free, no card. For Team, write to sales@context-mode.com.