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Sidegrade — AI skill for Claude Code

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Same intelligence, less money — reads your local Claude Code / Codex / Hermes / OpenCode usage and shows which model gives the same intelligence for less.

How to install Sidegrade

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open iotexproject/sidegrade and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Sidegrade does

Same intelligence, less money — reads your local Claude Code / Codex / Hermes / OpenCode usage and shows which model gives the same intelligence for less. 100% local, npx, no account.

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README

sidegrade

**Same intelligence, less money.** `sidegrade` reads your local coding-agent usage — **Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenCode** — and tells you which model gives you the *same intelligence* for a lower price, and which cheaper tier is worth a small step down.

npx sidegrade

No install, no account, no config. It reads your existing Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenCode session logs on this machine and prints a report — whichever of the four you use.

Or just ask your agent

Already inside Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any coding agent? Paste this — it runs sidegrade and tells you what to do, no terminal needed:

Run `npx -y sidegrade --json` and tell me the intelligence (AA) I'm running and
what it costs per day, the cheapest model at the same intelligence, and a cheaper
step-down — with $/day and savings for each.

What you'll see

Run it and you get a report built from *your* actual usage. Example:

  sidegrade  ·  same intelligence, less money
  100% local · no account · no telemetry · your prompts & code never leave this machine

  You're using AI at intelligence AA 53, costing about $151/day at list price.

  Based on 3.3B tokens over the last 30 days · 94% cache-hit · Claude Code (26d), Codex (21d)

  Intelligence-per-dollar (if you ran all of it on one model)
  model                   AA  vs you     $/day  via
  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Claude Fable 5.1        57      +4      $201  QuickSilver Pro same+ ◆
  GPT-6 Astra             55      +2      $326  NEAR AI         same+
  Claude Opus 5           54      +1      $130  QuickSilver Pro same+ ◆
  Muse Spark 1.3          53      -0    $29.21  QuickSilver Pro same+ ◆
  Grok 4.6                51      -2    $81.50  NEAR AI         ~-2
  Kimi K3                 50      -3    $83.05  QuickSilver Pro ~-3
  GLM 5.3                 49      -4    $36.93  Z.ai            ~-4
  Gemini 3.8 Flash        47      -6    $20.76