# The Token Tax — Why You're Overpaying LLM Providers

> Every byte of PII, boilerplate, and bloat in your prompt is a tax. Omna kills it locally.

Canonical: https://omna.dev/token-tax

LLMs bill by token. Most prompts ship redundant context, full files, and PII the model doesn't need. Omna slices files and masks PII on-device so you only pay for tokens that matter.