Super-high token usage with gpt-4o-mini and image

[SomebodySysop]

@bobartig

You could separate the task into two separate calls, one for image-to-text

But, this is the first call:

@SomebodySysop

[usage] => Array
    (
        [prompt_tokens] => 14378
        [completion_tokens] => 101
        [total_tokens] => 14479
    )

For doing nothing more than extracting the text from this image:

14,000 tokens charged for 600 characters of text?

This is the request in the Playground: https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?models=gpt-4o-mini&preset=preset-vjZ8QKzF1RaISBGbWkExyRNk

And, just to compare Apples to Apples:

Gemini Pro charges 601 tokens for the same exact prompt and image. I suspect Gemini Flash is even cheaper.