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How Image Input Pricing Varies Across Vendors
Image tokens cost wildly different things on different providers; budget accordingly.
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What this lesson covers
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2vision pricing
- 3image tokens
- 4vendor differences
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Section 1
The premise
An image translates to vendor-specific token counts based on resolution and tiling rules; estimate before scaling.
What AI does well here
- Estimate per-image cost ahead of rollout
- Right-size images before sending
- Compare cost per task across vendors
What AI cannot do
- Beat the vendor's tile algorithm
- Cache image inputs in most setups
- Predict pricing changes
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