Render your prompts as PNGs. Your API bill drops 60-70%.
Found this today. Text costs by the token, images cost by the pixel. Same 48K characters: 25,000 tokens as text, just 2,700 tokens as a PNG. About 9x less.
pxpipe (teamchong/pxpipe) runs a local proxy between Claude Code and the API. Recent turns stay as-is. System prompts, tool documentation, stale context — all gets rendered into compact images, and the model reads it without breaking a sweat.
🔗 teamchong/pxpipe
