Equation 14 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs
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where w and h are the image’s pixel dimensions after any provider-side resize and P is that provider’s patch edge length in pixels. The formula is the same shape everywhere; the constant P , the resize rule applied before it, and the price per resulting token are what an integrator actually has to look up and budget against.
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