Topic · Spend Optimisation

Stretch every token · without sacrificing quality.

The fastest way to cut AI spend is to stop overpaying for capability you don’t need on a given call. TokenOne’s proprietary optimisation protocols stretch every token, eliminate redundant spend and pick the most efficient path that clears the workload’s quality bar · never below it. Finance sees the waste removed on every call.

The headline mechanism

Prompt Optimiser · the biggest single saving on inbound.

Before a prompt reaches the model, TokenOne® matches it to a known pattern, extracts the subject matter as a variable, and rewrites the request to a canonical template. Typical 35–55% token reduction; cache hit rates jump from <5% to 20–40%. Included as standard.

35–55% token reduction

Bloat · politeness, restatement, hedging, formatting noise · stripped before dispatch.

Cache hit rate <5% → 20–40%

Different users phrasing the same request now produce identical canonical prompts. Hits = free responses.

~50–60% effective saving

Token reduction × cache hit rate compound. Latency drops in proportion.

Same Layer 1 / Layer 2 / Layer 3 ladder as routing and guardrails. Most prompts optimise at Layer 1 for free. Only ambiguous shapes reach Layer 3 (LLM rewrite · opt-in, metered through wallet). See the full Prompt Optimiser module page for details.

Plus seven more techniques

Reduce burn at every layer.

Right-sizing per call

Pattern matcher + classifier picks the right capability tier per call · not per workload.

Exact-match cache

Hash of the canonical inputs short-circuits repeat calls. Per-tenant, classification-aware.

Batching where eligible

Latency-tolerant calls batched against provider batch APIs for material discounts.

Quality-gated escalation

Cheap paths only used when they historically clear the quality bar. Otherwise we promote.

Adaptive routing

Endpoint health + cost feed into the next decision. Drift detector quarantines runaways.

Latency-aware tiering

When latency matters, we pay for it. When it doesn’t, we save.

Token wallet allocation

Per-project, per-team budgets. Hard limits and soft alerts before bills surprise you.

Counterfactual savings

Every call records what it would have cost without TokenOne®. Reportable per period.

What customers see

Savings that show up on the bill.

  • Counterfactual savings reported per project, per period · and audit-traceable.
  • Cache hit rate per pattern · visible, tunable, never silent.
  • Per-call cost trace · every decision logged with what was chosen and why.
  • BYOK throughout · savings accrue to you, not the vendor.
  • No model markup · the routing-and-governance fee is what you pay TokenOne®; the rest goes to your provider direct.

See your token burn drop. With your quality bar held.