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I Built a Prompt Compressor That Saves 65% on LLM Costs — Here's the Story

Developer Arjun Shah built SuperCompress, an intelligent prompt compression system for LLMs that saves 65% on token costs while achieving 100% oracle recall, outperforming standard truncation. The system uses a tiny CPU model to score context lines for relevance before GPU processing, potentially saving 24K GPU hours and 1,526 tons of CO₂ daily at industry scale. SuperCompress is available on PyPI and GitHub.

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I've been working on a side project called SuperCompress — an intelligent prompt compression system for LLMs. The idea is simple: most tokens you send to an LLM never need to be processed. They're padding, boilerplate, irrelevant context. But they still burn GPU cycles.

I wanted to fix that.

Working with LLM agents, I noticed something: every agent loop was sending massive context through the GPU. 10K tokens. 50K tokens. Sometimes more. Most of it was irrelevant to the specific task.

Truncation (keeping head + tail) was the standard approach, but it regularly dropped critical information from the middle of the context.

I thought: what if we could score each line of context for relevance BEFORE sending it to the GPU? A tiny CPU model that decides what matters.

The technical challenge was:

After a lot of iteration, the results surprised even me:

Policy KV Saved Oracle Recall
Truncation 65% 25%
H2O 65% 98%
SuperCompress 65% 100%

100% oracle recall at the same token savings. The policy never dropped a line the answer depended on.

Here's what hit me hardest: at 50M agent turns per day (a conservative estimate for the industry), we're wasting 100B tokens daily. That's 24K GPU hours, 1,526 tons of CO₂, 6.5M liters of cooling water. Every day.

Per 1 million compressions, SuperCompress saves:

It's tiny per call. It's enormous at scale.

Currently looking for:

Live demo: [https://supercompress.vercel.app](https://supercompress.vercel.app)

GitHub: [https://github.com/arjunkshah/supercompress](https://github.com/arjunkshah/supercompress)

Docs: [https://arjunkshah-supercompress-55.mintlify.app](https://arjunkshah-supercompress-55.mintlify.app)

The ask: If you're building with LLMs, try compressing your next prompt. See if the answers stay the same. I'd love to hear what you think.

Now available on PyPI! pip install supercompress

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