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Claude Code is one of the heaviest consumers of input tokens in a modern engineering org. Long tool loops, large file reads, and MCP catalogs with hundreds of tools push every request toward the top of the context window, and the bill scales with it.

If Claude Code already points at a LiteLLM proxy (via ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL), there are five levers the platform admin can pull to bring that cost down. None of them require a client-side change.