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Microsoft and UC Berkeley release a plugin that cuts coding agent costs

MarkTechPost Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley released TokenEconomizer, an open-source plugin that cut coding agent token costs by 18.4% to 30.9% on the SWE-Bench test.

Why it matters

Teams paying for AI coding assistants could spend less on the same work without changing the tools they use.