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Multimodal Input Pricing: Image, Audio, and Video Tokens
How vendors price multimodal inputs and how to estimate cost before integration.
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What this lesson covers
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- 1The premise
- 2multimodal pricing
- 3image tokens
- 4audio tokens
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Section 1
The premise
Multimodal inputs are surprisingly expensive — accurate cost estimation requires per-vendor formulas.
What AI does well here
- Compute image token cost from resolution per vendor.
- Pre-resize images to hit lower-cost tiers.
- Batch small images where supported.
What AI cannot do
- Predict cost without per-vendor formulas.
- Match cost across vendors at identical quality.
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