For people who live in Claude Code

Zero out the waste
in your token bill.

Tare is the one-time tune-up for Claude Code. It stops the redundant re-reads, trims bloated tool output, and paces you under the rate limit — then keeps a ledger to prove every token it saved.

Full-power free for 7 days. Watch it save 2× its price before you pay a cent.

tare · example scale
gross tokens today4,920,000
− blocked re-reads1,310,000
− trimmed output742,000
− compressed shell208,000
net saved · press tare
0tokens
rate-limit window
measuring…
tare saved 2.26M today ▮▮▮▯ pace 38%
01The waste

You hit the wall at 2 PM. Again.

Your agent burns through the window re-reading the same files, dumping 800-line tool outputs into context, and running shell that never needed to be that verbose. You don't see it happening — until the rate limit stops you mid-task.

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Redundant re-reads. The same file pulled into context five times in one session — paid for five times.

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Oversized output. A single command spills thousands of tokens you'll never read, crowding out the work.

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No visibility. You can't tell which tool ate the budget, so you can't fix it.

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The wall. The window empties early, and you're locked out exactly when you're in flow.

02How it works

Like the tare button on a scale.

A scale's tare weight is the part you subtract so you only measure what matters. Tare does the same to your context window — it runs locally, watches the real traffic, and quietly removes the dead weight before a token is ever spent.

/ 01

Block the re-read before it costs you

Tare recognises a file already sitting in context and stops the agent from pulling it in again. The re-read never happens, so the tokens are never spent.

example / session−1.31Mtokens
/ 02

Trim oversized output to disk

Huge tool results get spilled to a local file and replaced with a compact, recoverable summary. The signal stays in context; the bloat goes to disk where you can still reach it.

example / session−742Ktokens
/ 03

Adapt as the window fills

As context tightens, Tare gets more aggressive automatically — and it self-tunes against your real usage patterns, entirely on your machine. Nothing leaves your laptop.

pacing38%of window
/ 04

Prove it in your statusline

Live savings and rate-limit pacing render right in the Claude Code statusline, backed by an append-only ledger. No "trust me" — the receipts are on disk.

visibility100%on-device
03The ledger

Every saved token, on the record.

Tare keeps an append-only ledger of what it actually removed — measured, not estimated. Run one command and read the receipt for your day.

~/project — tare today

Example ledger output — numbers from the maintainer's own machine (N=1). Yours are measured from your sessions.

04What's in the box

One install. Six commands. Zero subscriptions.

tare today

Your daily savings receipt

The headline number plus the breakdown — re-reads blocked, output trimmed, shell compressed — for the current day.

tare report

The long view

Trends across sessions so you can see how much head-room Tare is buying you over a week or a sprint.

tare evidence

The append-only ledger

Raw, tamper-evident records of every intervention. Measured savings, not marketing math.

tare doctor

One-command health check

Audits your Claude Code setup for token overhead and flags anything that needs attention.

tare lab

Tune the aggressiveness

Experiment with how hard Tare trims, locally, against your own traffic — and promote the policy that wins.

tare uninstall

Clean exit, any time

One command removes it completely. No lock-in, nothing left behind, your ledger stays yours.

05Start free

Try the whole thing free for 7 days.

One paste starts a 7-day full-power trial — real enforcement, real savings, real receipts, no key required. Watch the ledger cross 2× the price, then keep it for $49. On day 8, Tare settles into a free measure-only mode; it never locks you out and never bricks.

curl -fsSL https://usetare.dev/install.sh | sh
01 · Paste & run — the full tool, free for 7 days 02 · Watch the ledger cross 2× the price 03 · Keep it for $49, or fall back to free measure-only
06Pricing

Buy it once. Own it forever.

First 100 only
$49
then $129 · one-time payment
  • Lifetime v1.x signed updates included
  • Every command — today, report, evidence, doctor, lab
  • Runs fully local — nothing leaves your machine
  • Use it on up to 3 machines you code on
Buy once — $49
Launch pricing — first 100 seats at $49, then $129

Why one-time, not another subscription?

You're already paying for the AI. Tare's job is to make that bill go further — charging you monthly to save money would be its own kind of waste.

So it's a single payment, it runs on your machine, and the ledger keeps it honest. If a slow week passes and it saved you nothing, you'll know — because it's all on the record.

07Questions

The honest answers.

Does Tare see my code? +
No. Tare runs entirely on your machine and self-tunes against your local usage. Nothing — code, prompts, or ledger — is sent anywhere.
What does "start free" actually mean? +
You get the whole tool free for 7 days — real enforcement, real savings, no key required. On day 8 it settles into a free measure-only mode that keeps showing what you'd save; a license unlocks the full tool again. It never locks you out.
Which tools does it work with? +
Built for Claude Code today. Adapters for other AI coding agents (Codex and friends) are on the roadmap, not shipped yet.
How do I install it? +
One paste: curl -fsSL https://usetare.dev/install.sh | sh. That starts your trial. Then run tare today to see your first ledger. After you buy, the key is embedded for you.
Can I remove it cleanly? +
Yes — tare uninstall removes it completely. No lock-in, and your ledger stays on your disk.
Are the savings numbers real? +
They're measured from your own sessions and stored in an append-only ledger you can audit with tare evidence. The figures on this page are labelled examples from the maintainer's own machine (N=1) while a 30-day measurement runs.

Press tare on your token bill.

7-day full trial · runs local · one-time payment · lifetime v1.x updates