Building a photo-based bill-splitter: when reasoning models are worth the cost
HowDevelop · x · 2026-10-20
Astrodevil built Splitter, a group bill-splitting app that reads photos of bills, splits costs between friends, and tracks who owes whom. It runs on Nemotron 3.5 Super VL via Nebius Token Factory. The write-up covers what the app does, how it's built, and the core trade-off of when paying for reasoning is actually worth the cost — useful reading for developers building practical tools with VL models.
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