Headroom

Headroom

Garm Tech
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About

Headroom is a menu bar app for macOS, Windows and Linux that cuts Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex token costs by ~50%, which can translate to up to 2x as much usage on the plan you already pay for. It compresses the bulky tool output, logs and boilerplate your coding agent sends. Compression runs locally, before the request leaves your machine, so prompts and code stay private. Source code passes through untouched, and the originals stay available to the agent through a retrieval tool. Typical coding sessions save 25-50% overall. Across 183 Claude Code users over one week, Headroom cut input tokens by 34% (measured) and output tokens by 33% (estimated). Also included: a dashboard and activity feed with tokens and API-equivalent dollars saved, project learnings that turn past sessions into token-saving rules, and one-click add-ons (MarkItDown, Serena, Codebase Memory, Context7, Ponytail, Caveman). 7-day free trial, no credit card. Plans from $3/month.

About

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Not Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Developers and engineering teams using Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, or compatible local coding-agent workflows.

Audience

Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$3/month
Pro is $3/month, billed annually ($36/year), or $4/month, billed monthly, for Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus. Max x5 is $15/month, billed annually, or $20/month, billed monthly; Max x20 is $30/month, billed annually, or $40/month, billed monthly. Each plan includes a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Team and Enterprise plans have custom pricing. A separate free, self-managed Headroom CLI is also available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

$0.15/1M input tokens
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

Cons

  • The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial tasks.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Garm Tech
Founded: 2026
Netherlands
extraheadroom.com

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

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Categories

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Foundation Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Integrations

Claude Code Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
Clawd.run Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
ClinePass Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Fireworks AI Not Supported
Grok Build Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
MiniMax Code Not Supported
MiniMax Mavis Not Supported
Ollama Not Supported
OpenAI Codex Supported
OpenCode Supported
Tabbit Browser Not Supported
Together AI Not Supported
Vision Agents Not Supported
Visual Studio Code Supported

Integrations

Claude Code Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Fireworks AI Supported
Grok Build Not Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
MaxHermes Supported
MiniMax Code Supported
MiniMax Mavis Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenAI Codex Not Supported
OpenCode Not Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
Together AI Supported
Vision Agents Supported
Visual Studio Code Not Supported
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