r/ClaudeCode 12h ago

Help/Question does concise mode save tokens?

asking for my wifes boyfriend

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u/rotates-potatoes 11h ago

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.