Cut LLM Costs by 90%: Why Markdown Transforms RAG Token Efficiency

Raw HTML fed to LLMs wastes tokens on non-semantic markup and styling, degrading embedding quality and driving up costs. Converting to clean Markdown via headless browser rendering can reduce token consumption by up to 94% while preserving semantic meaning. This optimization is essential for production RAG systems seeking cost-effective, high-quality retrieval with improved context density.