From $42 to $6 per session: the proxy trick that turns text into images

First, the concrete fact: PxPipe is a local proxy that sits between your Claude Code client and Anthropic’s API. When you send it a long session—with chat history, tool documentation, system prompts—PxPipe intercepts that request and converts the static parts into PNG images. Text from the history that isn’t going to change, documentation, fixed instructions: all of it is rendered as an image before being sent to the model. Only recent messages—the ones that matter for the immediate response—travel as normal text. The result in numbers: in a Claude Fable 5 session, costs fell from $42.21 to $6.06.

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