Hi everyone, I came across something odd when testing the image input capabilities via the api. According to the OpenAI documentation , image token usage should be reasonable and proportional to the image processing effort. However, when I ran the example curl command from the docs (with two identic…

[image] malle_friedrich: Is this expected behavior? You have discovered the way it works. [image] GPT-4o-mini Vision API: High Prompt Token Usage in Batch Process Feedback Don’t use gpt-4o-mini for images. It costs twice as much per image as gpt-4o - i…

Thanks for the link and clarification! That definitely explains the high token usage. However, it’s not very intuitive — especially since the official documentation uses gpt-4o-mini in the example. If using that model leads to inflated token costs by design, it might be helpful to either note that …

Is this the multimodal new image generator or dalle-3 36000 tokens seems not too much maybe especially if the X2 thing is true, what is the output token amount? Even if the input is high it might still be cheaper then 4o.

Unexpectedly High Token Count When Using Image Inputs with gpt-4o-mini

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_j April 1, 2025, 3:19pm 2

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Unexpectedly High Token Count When Using Image Inputs with gpt-4o-mini

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