Headroom Desktop

Headroom is a desktop menu bar app that reduces the token cost of using Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex. It sits between your coding agent and the provider's API and compresses bulky, repetitive input such as tool output, logs, JSON, HTML and shell results before the request is forwarded. Compression runs locally, so prompts and code stay on your machine, and the originals remain retrievable by the model through retrieval tools when it needs them. It is aimed at developers who keep hitting the usage limits of their Claude or ChatGPT plans and want more work per subscription instead of upgrading a tier. The app manages its own local runtime so it does not interfere with the packages your projects depend on, connects to your agents, supports optional add ons, and reports usage and savings in an activity view. It is available for macOS, Windows and Linux. The vendor reports roughly 50 percent savings on the noisiest inputs and says to expect about 25 to 50 percent overall on real coding workloads, with results depending on your content and not guaranteed. Pricing is published per plan in US dollars, with a 7 day free trial and no credit card required. Pro, matched to Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus, is $3 per month billed annually or $4 billed monthly. Max x5 is $15 per month billed annually or $20 billed monthly. Max x20 is $30 per month billed annually or $40 billed monthly.