Experimenting with TOON: A 40% Reduction in LLM Tokens?

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I recently looked at the GCP bill for the “Revenue Radar” agent I built (the one I documented in my “Beyond ‘Hello World’” deep dive), and the usage costs provided a significant and unexpected reality check.

The Python code was clean. The logic was sound. But the sheer volume of JSON I was shoving into Gemini’s context window for every single RAG retrieval was burning through credits like a startup burning through VC cash in 2021.

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Experimenting with TOON: A 40% Reduction in LLM Tokens?