My prompt for generating alt text is 8500 tokens. Is that right?

[supershaneski]

it is expected for mini when used for vision

GPT-4o-mini high vision cost

I noticed that the vision cost for the new mini model is as high as for the normal gpt-4o model. At first i thougt the calculator on the pricing page is wrong, but after testing out the api in my nodejs application I can sadly confirm that gpt-4o-mini uses about 33x more tokens for an image while being cheaper 33 times than gpt-4o. What is the reason behind this ? I assume gpt-4o-mini cant do vision natively so the request is handled by gpt-4o ? Would appreciate some clarification. With visio…