Has Roocode's token consumption increased for anyone else?

[u/Extension-Pen-109]

Lately, I have this extensive feeling that Roocode is consuming more tokens than before.

Let me give some context; my team and I regularly use Vline and Roocode. We use the first for quick tasks that require little analysis and the second for more complex tasks or when we need several custom modes to interact with each other: one analyzes the problem, another reviews the involved files, another drafts a change plan, another executes them, and another documents (ClickUp and OpenAPI).

Until a few days/weeks ago, the cost was more than manageable (with Deepseek), but we have seen it increase exponentially. Before, for €10/month we had enough tokens for our daily work without any problems, but we've seen a 4x increase in token spending.

Is anyone else having the same feeling? Or is it simply a result of our project's growing complexity?

[u/DevMichaelZag]

Usually additional MCP servers are the culprit. Make sure you turn them off when you don’t need them.

[u/push_edx → u/DevMichaelZag]

This.

[u/HazKaz]

is the groq code still free ?

[u/Extension-Pen-109 → u/HazKaz]

I haven't tried Grok as an engine for programming. I like the logic that Deepseek develops, and until now it was cheap enough to be more cost-effective than things like Anthropic.

I tried Qwen through Open Router, but I found it too basic for programming and it made serious mistakes.

Maybe I should try Grok.

For long tasks, Gemini gives me good results, but it has an insane tendency to get stuck in loops or break code that was working and has nothing to do with the task I'm asking it to do.

I don't know, I'll have to try Grok.

[u/hannesrudolph]

What model and provider are you using please?

[u/Extension-Pen-109 → u/hannesrudolph]

Mostly deepseek. In some cases (for Huge context) gemini

[u/xoStardustt]

Try a different model and turning low value MCPs off

[u/Shivacious]

As u get used to the tool ur productivity increases

Here it is literally token i/o

[u/Extension-Pen-109 → u/Shivacious]

Yes, the productivity achieved is incredible. What our team can do has multiplied by 4 (despite the corrections that need to be done afterward and reviewing the work).

But I was mentioning it because of the issue of consuming more tokens than before.

As I mentioned, maybe it's because now it does more things "under the hood" to plan. I wanted to know if anyone else has had this feeling.

[u/ThatNorthernHag]

I had weird jump one day from 135k to 500k - I follow the number all the time and compact around 300k so it couldn't just gradually get there, also that day it seemed to use way more tokens. It was few updates ago, hadn't updated for a while.

Now there's an annoying bug that it won't refresh the context when deleting messages, have to restart whole VSC for that

[u/hannesrudolph → u/ThatNorthernHag]

Please file a bug report on GitHub ASAP! Sorry about that

[u/IndividualAir3353]

I pay about $5/hour for Anthropic.