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Dev tools · April 12, 2026

Edgee Codex Compressor

Use Codex at 35.6% lower costs

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What it does

We benchmarked Codex alone against Codex routed through Edgee's compression gateway on the same repo, with the same model, under the same workflow. The result: Codex + Edgee used 49.5% fewer input tokens, improved cache hit rate from 76.1% to 85.4%, and reduced total session cost by 35.6%. This post breaks down why context compression makes Codex more efficient, more frugal, and materially cheaper to run without sacrificing useful output.

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