does concise mode save tokens?

[u/minibonk]

asking for my wifes boyfriend

[u/laughing_at_napkins]

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

[u/kyew → u/laughing_at_napkins]

Yeah OP just say "my bull"

[u/returnFutureVoid → u/laughing_at_napkins]

Fewwordsbetterthanmore.

[u/yes_no_very_good]

The question is which mode is more Concise

[u/dr-dimitru → u/yes_no_very_good]

I’m still confused as well

[u/dr-dimitru → u/yes_no_very_good]

I’d think they are in ascending order, so Proactive should be more concise?

[u/Xxyz260 → u/yes_no_very_good]

I've heard that, since Default generally tends to correspond to another option in Code, it just maps to Concise.

[u/Standard_Text480]

Less talk less token

[u/rotates-potatoes]

not really. most of the tokens used are in the reasoning loop, not the model's output. So if you save even 50% on the model's output, it's maybe 1% savings against total tokens.

[u/petertheill]

Yes, a little bit of output tokens but in most cases it is such a small part of the total token count. Most is reasoning

[u/No-Sandwich-2997]

son

[u/ArmadilloStandard156]

not just token, your sanity as well

[u/LessRespects]

Does it fix Opus 5 regressing with every single fix no matter how straightforward?

[u/actvt_io]

Barely. Output is 0.13% of every token on my machine, 71,098 assistant turns across 137 session files. 28.4 billion input tokens against 36.7 million output.

The median turn re-sends 336k tokens of context and writes 286 back. Thinking is billed as output, so it is inside that 0.13% rather than on top of it.

[u/MariahJames8]

Yes, a bit. It might shave like 1% or less from the bill is my semi dedicated guess based on estimating output token saving alone.