Token Saver

Cut polite fluff out of your prompts so you spend less on tokens.

04/17/2025: Sam Altman admits that saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT is wasting millions of dollars in computing power.

Disclaimer: Only works with English as of now.

Install

npm i @eimen/token-saver      # or yarn add @eimen/token-saver / pnpm add @eimen/token-saver

Quick start

ESM

import TokenSaver from "@eimen/token-saver";

const saver = new TokenSaver();
const out = saver.process("Please summarise this text, thank you!");

console.log(out.cleaned); // "Summarise this text."
console.log(out.estimatedTokensSaved); // 3

CommonJS

const TokenSaver = require("@eimen/token-saver");

Options

| Option | Default | What it does | | ----------------------- | :-----: | -------------------------------------------------- | | removePoliteness | true | kill please, thank you and similar niceties | | removeFillers | true | kill um, uh, actually, well … | | removeRedundantIntros | true | kill “I was wondering if you could” style prefixes | | tokenCharRatio | 4 | char‑per‑token estimate for savings calculation |

Pass a partial options object to the constructor:

new TokenSaver({ removeFillers: false });

API surface

clean(prompt: string): string
process(prompt: string): {
  original: string;
  cleaned: string;
  charsSaved: number;
  estimatedTokensSaved: number;
}

Types are shipped in index.d.ts.

CLI one‑liner

npx @eimen/token-saver "Please help me. Thanks!"   # prints "Help me."

(CLI is just node -e sugar; no global install needed.)

Why bother

• ChatGPT Turbo is ~4 characters per token. Two polite words can cost 1–2 tokens.
• Multiply by millions of prompts. Real money.
• Faster requests, shorter logs.

Contributing

git clone https://github.com/eimenhmdt/token-saver
cd token-saver
npm i
npm test

License

MIT