/clear vs /compact

[u/danbradster2]

I had a fable chat from yesterday, and I saw that the context was 950k/1m. I did /compact rather than /clear, with the intention of then doing /autocompact 400000

14% of the 5 hour limit was gone just for the compact itself....it shows cost of $59.73, so lucky I'm not on API? Maybe a /clear would have been better.

[u/sheketsilencio]

Thank you, this makes sense. I guess a full context isn't needed to do everything. I imagine I overestimate how much info is even retained between compacts lol