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A higher vision bill than expected, and no idea how many tokens one image actually costs.
What you'll have at the end
The same photo sent at full size versus resized, with the token count and dollar cost measured for both.
You need
You can already call a vision-capable model with an image in the request, and you have a real photo or screenshot on hand, still at its original size, that you plan to send.
Not covered
Which vision-capable model or provider to call in the first place.
Pull every field off a handwritten form into clean JSON
when the photo is a form with small handwritten fields, keep it at full resolution and follow that recipe's approach instead of shrinking it here.
Give a vision model a zoom tool for illegible chart labels
when one specific label or region is illegible even at full size, give the model a way to zoom into that region rather than sending a bigger photo.
Checked 15 Aug 2026
Part of the Multimodal AI cookbook