Start by checking recurring work, retries and overly broad tasks. Test a smaller, clearly scoped request against your normal workflow and compare both results and the usage information your account actually shows.
First, understand what you are measuring
A token is a unit of model input or output. Your Grok Bot plan may show usage as an allowance or a percentage, and developer API billing is a separate product. Check your own account and current plan information rather than converting one display into a different unit.
Available plans and billing paths can change. A free instruction or template does not make the service used to run it free.
Cut work that does not help
Review routines you no longer need, repeated failed attempts and jobs that ask for more sources or output than the decision requires. For a first run, specify the question, a small set of sources, the output format and how to report missing information.
For example: “Compare the three URLs I provide. Read at most two pages per site. Return one table with source links. Mark unavailable information as unverified. Do not create accounts or start recurring tasks.” This is a scope request, not a platform-enforced spending limit.
Compare like with like
Use the same task, inputs and quality requirements for your usual and smaller versions. Run each more than once where practical, while limiting other work that shares the allowance. Record the displayed usage, completion quality, elapsed time and rework.
Do not claim a percentage saving from a single run or infer tokens from an account percentage. If the smaller task omits important evidence, the apparent saving may come at the cost of a worse result.
Sources & further reading
These are the original references for the platform details in this guide. Check the current documentation for changes.