Setting Images to Low Resolution May Not Save Money
AccBalanced · x · 2026-07-14
OpenRouter shares findings from a visual reasoning test using 1730 个视觉推理问题 and 5 个模型 to evaluate a common cost-saving trick: setting image detail to low.
Surprisingly, this approach 经常适得其反. Models often consume more reasoning tokens to "squint" at unclear images, ultimately driving up the total cost.
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