AI Coding Assistants · Netherlands
Desktop app that compresses Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex inputs locally to cut token costs by up to 50%
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Headroom is a menu bar app that optimizes Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex prompts by compressing tool output and boilerplate locally, extending your plan usage by
Headroom is a desktop application for macOS, Windows, and Linux that helps developers reduce token consumption when using Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex AI coding agents. The app compresses repetitive tool output, logs, and boilerplate before they reach the AI model, achieving approximately 25-50% token reduction on typical sessions. All compression happens locally on your machine with no data sent to external servers. By cutting token waste, Headroom extends the usage limits of your existing Claude Pro, Claude Max, ChatGPT Plus, or ChatGPT Pro subscription by up to 2x without requiring you to upgrade your plan. The app includes eight optional add-ons for further optimization and tracks your savings in real-time.
Pricing model: Freemium
Pro: $4/month billed monthly or $3/month billed annually (for Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus); Max x5: $20/month billed monthly or $15/month billed annually (for Claude Max x5 or ChatGPT Pro $100); Max x20: $40/month billed monthly or $30/month billed annually (for Claude Max x20 or ChatGPT Pro); Team &
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Measured after Headroom went live on Zivaro Launch on 31 October 2026.
Day 2 since launch. Next receipt: day 30, 30 Nov 2026. These are measurements, not proof of cause: many things move these numbers. Figures we have not measured are left out.
Typical Claude Code sessions come out 25-50% lighter on input tokens. Sessions heavy on logs, test output, search results, and docs save more; sessions where the agent mostly thinks and writes code save less, because there is less noise to remove. Savings on ChatGPT (Codex) are currently lower than on Claude Code, because Codex already trims much of its own tool output. The app shows your own savings live from the first session.
Yes, within measurement error. On the open-source benchmark suite, compressed context scores 0.919 F1 with 98.2% recall on HTML extraction, retrieves 4/4 needles from JSON log haystacks, and slightly improves QA F1 on SQuAD v2 and HotpotQA. Because compression is reversible, the model can always pull the original content back if it needs it.
No. Headroom is privacy-first and runs locally on your machine, so your prompts do not need to be shipped to a Headroom server for optimization.
No. Headroom's compression is reversible. When it shrinks a tool output or an older message, it includes a small retrieval tool that lets Claude pull back the original content on demand, so nothing is actually thrown away.
Headroom is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. You can install the desktop app on any number of your own computers on a single plan.
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