Benchmark Results

Prompt Refiner's effectiveness has been validated through 3 comprehensive benchmark suites covering function calling optimization, RAG applications, and performance.

Available Benchmarks

⭐ Function Calling Benchmark

SchemaCompressor tested on 20 real-world API schemas achieving 56.9% average token reduction with 100% lossless compression.

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📚 RAG & Text Optimization

Comprehensive A/B testing on 30 real-world test cases measuring 5-15% token reduction and response quality preservation.

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⚡ Latency & Performance

Performance testing measuring processing overhead - < 0.5ms per 1k tokens.

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Function Calling Benchmark

SchemaCompressor was rigorously tested on 20 production API schemas from industry-leading platforms including Stripe, Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Calendar, Notion, and more.

Results Summary

Category	Schemas	Avg Reduction	Top Performer
Very Verbose (Enterprise APIs)	11	67.4%	HubSpot Contact: 73.2%
Complex (Rich APIs)	6	61.7%	Slack Messaging: 70.8%
Medium (Standard APIs)	2	13.1%	Weather API: 20.1%
Simple (Minimal APIs)	1	0.0%	Calculator (already minimal)
Overall Average	20	56.9%	—

Key Highlights

✨ 56.9% average reduction - 15,342 tokens saved across all schemas
🔒 100% lossless compression - All protocol fields preserved (name, type, required, enum)
✅ 100% callable (20/20 validated) - All compressed schemas work correctly with OpenAI function calling
🏢 Enterprise APIs see 70%+ reduction - HubSpot (73.2%), OpenAI File Search (72.9%), Salesforce (72.1%)
📊 Real-world schemas - Production APIs from Stripe, Slack, Twilio, SendGrid, etc.
⚡ Zero API cost - Local processing with tiktoken

Functional Validation

We tested all 20 compressed schemas with real OpenAI function calling to prove they work correctly:

Category	Schemas	Identical Calls	Different Args (Valid)	Callable Rate
Simple	1	1 (100%)	0	100%
Medium	4	4 (100%)	0	100%
Complex	6	4 (67%)	2 (33%)	100%
Very Verbose	9	3 (33%)	6 (67%)	100%
Overall	20	12 (60%)	8 (40%)	100%

Key Findings:

✅ 100% callable (20/20): Every compressed schema successfully triggers function calls
✅ 100% structurally valid: All function names, types, required fields preserved
✅ 60% identical (12/20): Majority produce exactly the same function call
⚠️ 40% different but valid (8/20): Compressed descriptions influence LLM choices
Different default values chosen (num_results: 10 → 5, time_range: past_month → any)
Different placeholder values (database: 'production' → 'your_database_name')
Different optional fields populated (location: 'Zoom' → 'Conference Room A')
All differences use valid enum/type values - schemas remain functionally correct

Bottom Line: Compression doesn't break schemas - it's 100% safe for production use.

Top Performing Schemas

HubSpot Contact Creation: 2,157 → 578 tokens (73.2% reduction)
OpenAI File Search: 2,019 → 548 tokens (72.9% reduction)
Salesforce Account Creation: 2,157 → 602 tokens (72.1% reduction)
Slack Send Message: 979 → 286 tokens (70.8% reduction)
Anthropic Computer Use: 1,598 → 471 tokens (70.5% reduction)

Visualizations

Token Reduction by Category

Complex and enterprise APIs achieve 60-70%+ token reduction

Cost Savings Projection

Cost Savings

Estimated monthly savings for different agent sizes (GPT-4 pricing)

Cost Savings Examples

Real-world cost savings for AI agents with function calling:

Agent Size	Tools	Calls/Day	Monthly Savings	Annual Savings
Small	5	100	$44	$528
Medium	10	500	$541	$6,492
Large	20	1,000	$3,249	$38,988
Enterprise	50	5,000	$40,664	$487,968

Based on GPT-4 pricing ($0.03/1k input tokens) and 56.9% average reduction

Why This Matters

Function calling is one of the biggest sources of token consumption in AI agent systems. Verbose tool descriptions can consume thousands of tokens per request. SchemaCompressor optimizes documentation while preserving 100% of the protocol specification, making it completely safe to use in production.

What Gets Compressed

SchemaCompressor optimizes:

✅ Description fields (main source of verbosity)
✅ Redundant explanations and examples
✅ Marketing language and filler words
✅ Overly detailed parameter descriptions

SchemaCompressor NEVER modifies:

❌ Function name
❌ Parameter names
❌ Parameter types (string, number, boolean, etc.)
❌ Required fields
❌ Enum values
❌ Default values
❌ JSON structure

Running the Benchmark

Want to validate these results yourself?

# Install dependencies
uv sync --group dev

# Run benchmark (no API key needed!)
cd benchmark/function_calling
python benchmark_schemas.py

# Generate visualizations
python visualize_results.py

Cost: $0 (local token counting with tiktoken) Duration: ~1 minute

Results are saved to benchmark/function_calling/results/: - schema_compression_results.csv - Full results table - before_after_examples.md - Top 3 examples with comparisons - plots/ - Visualization charts

View Full Function Calling Benchmark Documentation →

RAG & Text Optimization

This benchmark validates token reduction and quality preservation for RAG applications and text optimization use cases.

Overview

The benchmark measures two critical factors:

Token Reduction - How much we can reduce prompt size (cost savings)
Response Quality - Whether responses remain semantically equivalent

Quality is evaluated using two methods: 1. Cosine Similarity - Semantic similarity of response embeddings (0-1 scale) 2. LLM Judge - GPT-4 evaluation of response equivalence

Results Summary

We tested 3 optimization strategies on 30 test cases (15 SQuAD Q&A pairs + 15 RAG scenarios):

Strategy	Token Reduction	Quality (Cosine)	Judge Approval	Overall Equivalent
Minimal	4.3%	0.987	86.7%	86.7%
Standard	4.8%	0.984	90.0%	86.7%
Aggressive	15.0%	0.964	80.0%	66.7%

Strategy Definitions

Minimal (Conservative cleaning):

pipeline = StripHTML() | NormalizeWhitespace()

Standard (Recommended for most use cases):

pipeline = (
    StripHTML()
    | NormalizeWhitespace()
    | Deduplicate(similarity_threshold=0.85)
)

Aggressive (Maximum savings):

pipeline = (
    StripHTML()
    | NormalizeWhitespace()
    | Deduplicate(similarity_threshold=0.85)
    | TruncateTokens(max_tokens=150, strategy="head")
)

Key Findings

🎯 Standard Strategy: Best Balance

The Standard strategy offers the best balance: - 4.8% token reduction with minimal quality impact - 90% judge approval - highest among all strategies - 0.984 cosine similarity - nearly perfect semantic preservation

💰 Cost Savings

Real-world cost savings for production applications:

GPT-4 TurboGPT-4

Input cost: $0.01 per 1K tokens

Volume	Minimal (4.3%)	Standard (4.8%)	Aggressive (15%)
100K tokens/month	$4.30	$4.80	$15.00
1M tokens/month	$43	$48	$150
10M tokens/month	$430	$480	$1,500

Input cost: $0.03 per 1K tokens

Volume	Minimal (4.3%)	Standard (4.8%)	Aggressive (15%)
100K tokens/month	$13	$14	$45
1M tokens/month	$129	$144	$450
10M tokens/month	$1,290	$1,440	$4,500

📊 Performance by Scenario

RAG Scenarios (with duplicates and HTML): - Minimal: 17% reduction on average - Standard: 31% reduction on average - Aggressive: 49% reduction on complex documents

SQuAD Q&A (clean academic text): - All strategies: 2-5% reduction (less messy data = less to clean)

Key Insight

Token savings scale with input messiness. RAG contexts with HTML, duplicates, and whitespace see 3-10x more reduction than clean text.

Visualizations

Token Reduction vs Quality

Benchmark Results

The scatter plot shows each strategy's position in the cost-quality tradeoff space. Standard strategy achieves near-optimal quality while maintaining solid savings.

Test Dataset

The benchmark uses 30 carefully curated test cases:

SQuAD Samples (15 cases)

Question-answer pairs with context covering: - History ("When did Beyonce start becoming popular?") - Science ("What is DNA?") - Geography, literature, technology

RAG Scenarios (15 cases)

Realistic retrieval-augmented generation use cases: - E-commerce product catalogs with HTML - Documentation with excessive whitespace - Customer support tickets with duplicates - Code search results - Recipe collections

Running the Benchmark

Want to validate these results yourself?

Prerequisites

# Install dependencies
uv sync --group dev

# Set up OpenAI API key
cd benchmark/rag_quality
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and add your OPENAI_API_KEY

Run the Benchmark

cd benchmark/rag_quality
python benchmark.py

This will: 1. Test 30 cases with 3 strategies (90 total comparisons) 2. Generate detailed report with visualizations 3. Save results to ./results/ directory

Estimated cost: ~$2-5 per full run (using gpt-4o-mini)

Advanced Options

# Use a different model
python benchmark.py --model gpt-4o

# Test specific strategies only
python benchmark.py --strategies minimal standard

# Use fewer test cases (faster, cheaper)
python benchmark.py --limit 10

Recommendations

Based on benchmark results:

For Production RAG Applications

Use Standard strategy - Best balance of savings and quality

pipeline = (
    StripHTML()
    | NormalizeWhitespace()
    | Deduplicate(similarity_threshold=0.85)
)

For High-Volume, Cost-Sensitive Applications

Consider Aggressive strategy if 15% cost reduction outweighs slightly lower quality

pipeline = (
    StripHTML()
    | NormalizeWhitespace()
    | Deduplicate(similarity_threshold=0.85)
    | TruncateTokens(max_tokens=150)
)

For Quality-Critical Applications

Use Minimal strategy for maximum quality preservation

pipeline = StripHTML() | NormalizeWhitespace()

Latency & Performance

"What's the latency overhead?" - Negligible. Prompt Refiner adds < 0.5ms per 1k tokens of overhead.

Performance Results

Strategy	@ 1k tokens	@ 10k tokens	@ 50k tokens	Overhead per 1k tokens
Minimal (HTML + Whitespace)	0.05ms	0.48ms	2.39ms	0.05ms
Standard (+ Deduplicate)	0.26ms	2.47ms	12.27ms	0.25ms
Aggressive (+ Truncate)	0.26ms	2.46ms	12.38ms	0.25ms

Key Performance Insights

⚡ Minimal strategy: Only 0.05ms per 1k tokens (faster than a network packet)
🎯 Standard strategy: 0.25ms per 1k tokens - adds ~2.5ms to a 10k token prompt
📊 Context: Network + LLM TTFT is typically 600ms+, refining adds < 0.5% overhead
🚀 Individual operations (HTML, whitespace) are < 0.5ms per 1k tokens

Real-World Impact

10k token RAG context refining: ~2.5ms overhead
Network latency: ~100ms
LLM Processing (TTFT): ~500ms+
Total overhead: < 0.5% of request time

Performance Takeaway

Refining overhead is negligible compared to network + LLM latency (600ms+). Standard refining adds ~2.5ms overhead - less than 0.5% of total request time.

Running the Latency Benchmark

The latency benchmark requires no API keys and runs completely offline:

cd benchmark/latency
python benchmark.py

This will: 1. Test individual operations at multiple scales (1k, 10k, 50k tokens) 2. Test complete strategies (Minimal, Standard, Aggressive) 3. Report average, median, and P95 latency metrics 4. Show per-1k-token normalized overhead

Cost: $0 (runs locally, no API calls)

Duration: ~30-60 seconds

Learn More

Contributing

Have ideas to improve the benchmark? We welcome: - New test cases (especially domain-specific scenarios) - Additional evaluation metrics - Alternative refining strategies - Multi-model comparisons

Open an issue or submit a PR!