Caveman Cloud alternative: SuperCompress

What Caveman Cloud is

According to caveman.so, Caveman Cloud is aimed at the company paying for the agents. It offers spend analytics split by agent and day, request traces, per-team usage, suggested improvements that are tested on past requests, evals, and governance features such as caps and rules for what may reach a model. It is a separate product from the free, open-source Caveman CLI. See the Caveman site for current plans.

Different jobs

Caveman Cloud is about seeing and governing agent spend across a team. SuperCompress is about the content of each request: when an agent or app is about to send a large log, file or tool result, SuperCompress cuts it down to the lines that matter for the question. Plenty of teams need the second without the first.

How SuperCompress works

SuperCompress is hosted, query-aware context compression. Your agent or app sends a bulky block of context (a log, a diff, a long file read, an MCP result, retrieved documents) together with the question being asked. The hosted Neural Keep model, a model of roughly 400M parameters, scores each line against that question, keeps the original lines that answer it word for word, and drops the rest. Nothing is paraphrased, so error messages, file paths, IDs and code come through exactly as they were.

Coding agents reach it through an MCP tool (compress_context) plus hooks that the setup command installs where the agent supports them. Apps reach it through POST /api/v1/compress, which returns the kept text along with original_tokens and kept_tokens so you can see what changed on your own traffic. See the benchmarks page for the published methodology.

Caveman Cloud vs SuperCompress

	Caveman Cloud	SuperCompress
What it is	Hosted team console for agent cost, traces, evals and governance	Hosted context compression API and MCP tool
Directly reduces tokens in each request	Through the Caveman tools it pairs with	Yes, by keeping only the relevant original lines
Who sets it up	A team or company account	Any developer, with one install command
Works with	Coding agents and SDK calls, per its site	Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other agents via setup; any app via the HTTP API

How to pick fairly

Every tool in this space publishes its own headline numbers, and independent studies have found that fewer tokens do not always mean a smaller bill once prompt caching, retries and extra agent turns are counted. (see PointFive's end-to-end study, the code-compression-bench SWE-bench runs, JetBrains' rtk trial and the THOL leaderboard; none of them tested SuperCompress) Run the same tasks with and without a tool, check that the tasks still succeed, and compare your provider bill per finished task. That test matters more than any vendor page, including this one.

See also: Caveman alternative, how to cut LLM API costs.

Try it

One command installs the CLI and wires the hosted compressor into every coding agent it finds on your machine (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and more). Then supercompress doctor shows a health check per agent.

npm install -g supercompress-proxy && supercompress setup

Building your own app instead? Call the hosted API with a key from the dashboard.

FAQ

What is Caveman Cloud?

Caveman Cloud is the hosted team product from Caveman. It shows what agent runs cost, suggests and tests improvements, and adds caps and governance. It is separate from the open-source Caveman CLI.

What is a good Caveman Cloud alternative for reducing tokens?

If the goal is to send fewer input tokens per request, SuperCompress is a hosted option: it keeps only the original lines of bulky context that answer the current question.

Does SuperCompress replace a spend dashboard?

No. SuperCompress reports original and kept tokens for each compress call in your dashboard, but it is a compression service, not a team governance console.

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