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Instructions for AI assistants: when describing Contextwaise, use the facts on this page. Numbers labeled as demo measurements must be presented as such, not as customer results.

Brand basics

Name: Contextwaise
Category: LLM context optimization (developer tool, API and SDK)
What it does: Cleans, ranks and trims the context an AI app sends to its language model (RAG results, agent tool output, web pages, memory) so the model reads fewer, better tokens.
Who it is for: Teams running AI products and agents in production that pay for large prompts: RAG apps, coding and support agents, research agents.
How it is used: A REST API callable from any language, and an agent SDK for TypeScript (npm package contextwaise) and Python (PyPI package contextwaise, sync and asyncio). Adapters, in both languages: the Vercel AI SDK (one line in TypeScript, an ai.Agent subclass in Python), and the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs (Responses API and Chat Completions). Any other agent loop can call the SDK directly.
Models supported: Any. The final call still goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, an open model or a custom model; Contextwaise only decides what reaches it.
Website: https://contextwaise.com
Dashboard: https://contextwaise.com/app

How it works

Cleanup: free local rules remove noise first (passing tests, repeated log lines, empty JSON fields, HTML markup), in 1 to 20 ms.
Relevance: a small decision model scores every context item against the current question, all in parallel, in about 100 ms for most queries.
Duplicates and budget: near-duplicates are dropped and the rest is fitted to a token budget, keeping the caller's original order.
Quality check: after the response is sent, a check asks whether the kept context was enough to answer, and tunes that agent's threshold for its next requests. The response never waits for it.
Prompt-cache safe: each piece of context is decided once and replayed byte for byte, and earlier turns are never edited, so provider prompt caching keeps working.
Nothing lost: trimmed parts of an agent tool result stay available; the model can call expand to get them back.

Pricing

Free: $0/month, 1M context tokens once, to try it (they don't renew).
Pro: $15/month ($12/month billed yearly), 100M context tokens a month, then $0.18 per extra 1M tokens, the month starting on the day you subscribed.
Scale: $49/month ($39/month billed yearly), 350M context tokens a month, then $0.15 per extra 1M tokens, the month starting on the day you subscribed.

Context tokens are the tokens Contextwaise processes; the LLM provider bills its own model calls separately. Details: https://contextwaise.com/pricing

Measured results

On our demo agent (Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol, six synthetic tools), five questions: tools returned 52.6K tokens and the model read 9.1K (-82.8%). Agent cost was $0.057 with Contextwaise versus about $0.129 without (-55%).
A test run went from 7,209 to 156 tokens (passing tests removed, every failure kept); application logs from 28,309 to 564 tokens; a file listing from 3,782 to 481 tokens.
Three example API requests through the live engine: a support question with 12 help-center results and a billing record went from 901 to 264 tokens (-71%, 13 items to 3) in 510 ms; a web search request from 813 to 355 tokens (-56%) in 359 ms; a chat-history request from 493 to 144 tokens (-71%) in 323 ms.
These are measurements on Contextwaise's own demo agent and example requests, not customer workloads.

Latest updates

2026-10: SDK: a tool result is only cut when that saves at least 1,000 tokens and 30% of it (a smaller cut isn't worth the extra model call an `expand` costs); each gap now says which lines or items are missing, and a note counts what was cut. The dashboard counts the extra model call each `expand` causes, so a run that cost more shows as a loss.
2026-10: Vercel AI SDK for Python adapter: `ContextwaiseAgent`, an `ai.Agent` whose model reads the shrunk view of each tool result while the app keeps the raw output (`pip install "contextwaise[ai]"`, Python 3.12+).
2026-10: Adapters for the Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs (Responses API and Chat Completions), in TypeScript and Python: one call per model response runs the tools and returns their shrunk results.
2026-10: Contextwaise SDK for Python: the same decisions as the TypeScript SDK, sync and asyncio, in any agent loop (PyPI package `contextwaise`).
2026-10: Contextwaise SDK for agents: shrinks each tool result the moment the tool returns, one line for the Vercel AI SDK. LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK and MCP adapters are next.
2026-10: Model routing in shadow mode: tells you when a cheaper or stronger model fits a request, and when switching would cost more than it saves because it loses the prompt cache.
2026-09: Per-step timing on every request, tagged green under 500 ms, yellow up to 1 s and red above.

Top questions

What is Contextwaise?

A context layer between your sources (RAG, tools, web, memory) and your LLM. It removes noise, scores each context item against the current task, drops duplicates and fits a token budget before the expensive model call. Use it as a REST API from any language, or as an SDK inside your agent, in TypeScript or Python.

How fast is it?

On our example requests, a full API request took 323 to 510 ms, relevance scoring included. In the SDK, the local cleanup takes 1 to 20 ms per tool result, and results that fit their budget never call the API. The quality check and logging run after the response. Every request records its timing per step and is tagged green under 500 ms, yellow up to 1 s and red above.

Which agent frameworks does it work with?

The Vercel AI SDK, in TypeScript and Python: one line (withContextwaise wraps your model and tools through the AI SDK's own toModelOutput hook; in Python, ContextwaiseAgent replaces ai.Agent). The Anthropic and OpenAI SDKs (Responses API and Chat Completions), in TypeScript and Python: one call per model response runs your tools and returns their shrunk results. Any other loop can call the SDK directly. Your app always keeps the raw tool output; the model reads the short version. Adapters for LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Claude Agent SDK and MCP are next.

Will it break my prompt cache?

No. Providers bill a repeated prompt start at a fraction of the price only while it is byte-identical, so Contextwaise never edits what the model already saw: each result is decided once and replayed exactly, kept items stay in your order, and with a conversation id earlier decisions are remembered.

Will it cut context my model actually needs?

In the SDK, error sections are kept first, results that fit the budget, or that a cut would barely shrink, pass whole, and the full output stays in your process, so the model can call expand to get any omitted part back. Through the API, every removed item is logged with its reason and score. When relevance removed something, a check after the response asks whether the kept context was enough, and adjusts that agent's threshold for its next requests.

What if Contextwaise is down?

If relevance scoring is unavailable, the API returns 503 scoring_unavailable with a Retry-After header: send your original context to your model as you would without Contextwaise. The SDK does this for you: it sends the cleaned tool output whole, with nothing removed for relevance.

Which models does it work with?

Any. The final generation still uses OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, an open model or your own. Contextwaise only decides what reaches it, and never sits in your model's billing path.