cheapoS THE CHEAPSKATE CLUB
PILLAR 2: SPONSORED EFFICIENCY BENCHMARKS

Frugal Bounties.
Big ideas. Small bills.

Compete with fellow cheapskates to build useful software, fix complex bugs, and push autonomous code swarms to peak token efficiency. Sponsored by budget inference providers.

Sponsored by Groq Cloud · LPU Inference
$250 API Credits

The Sub-5,000 Token Micro-App Challenge

Build and deploy a complete, fully functional micro-utility (e.g. RSS parser, markdown formatter, CLI generator) using cheapoS in under 5,000 total tokens.

Token Ceiling
< 5,000 Tokens
Quality Gate
100% Deterministic Test Pass
Cost Boundary
$0.00 Out-of-Pocket
⏳ Rolling Monthly ChallengeSubmit Task Run ↗
Sponsored by Polar & GitHub Sponsors Pool
$500 Community Bounty

The Zero-Dollar Autonomous Agent Tool

Create an open-source developer productivity tool powered exclusively by public free tiers (Google AI Studio, Groq Free, Ollama Local). Must run with 100% unattended completion.

Token Ceiling
Free Tiers Only
Quality Gate
Public GitHub Repo + 10+ Tests
Cost Boundary
Strictly $0.00 Invoiced
⏳ Autumn 2026 HackathonSubmit Task Run ↗
Sponsored by The Cheapskate Club Swarm Vault
$150 Compute Credits

The Multi-Model Self-Healing Benchmark

Demonstrate an autonomous self-healing recovery loop where an independent reviewer model detects and repairs an execution error with under 25% token overhead.

Token Ceiling
< 25% Repair Overhead
Quality Gate
Independent Multi-Model Gate
Cost Boundary
Zero Operator Resumes
⏳ Ongoing Empirical BenchmarkSubmit Task Run ↗
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