Guides

See what you saved

How many tokens DocuSense saved your agents.

DocuSense keeps track of how much your agents read through it, and compares that with what pasting the same documents would have cost.

terminal
docusense savings
output
12 agent sessions · 87 tool calls
read via DocuSense:         41,302 tokens
pasting the docs:          912,440 tokens
saved:                     871,138 tokens (22.1x less context)
most used: search ×31, read_section ×22, get_section_map ×14, get_evidence ×9

#Options

terminal
docusense savings --days 7     # just the last week
docusense savings --json       # for scripts and dashboards

#How it's counted

  • Read via DocuSense is everything your agent actually received.
  • Pasting the docs is each document your agent used, counted once per session, as if you had pasted it in.

The comparison is generous to pasting: a document read ten times in one session still only counts once.

#"No saving"?

If your documents are short, pasting them can be cheaper, and savings will tell you so honestly. DocuSense pays off on long documents, many documents, and documents your agent keeps coming back to.

#Typical savings

QuestionPastingDocuSense
One precise fact, with a citation9,090 tokens478
What changed between two versions97,895 tokens2,776
Does document A conflict with B?53,194 tokens3,615

#Privacy

The savings log stays on your computer. It records only tool names and sizes, never your questions or document text. To turn it off:

terminal
export DOCUSENSE_SAVINGS_LOG=0