Capital de TokensWhy does it work? Pure arbitrage against Anthropic's pricing system
Watch on YouTube Why does this work? Because Anthropic charges for text at a rate of approximately one token per four characters, but charges for images at a fixed price based on their pixel dimensions. And within that difference in pricing models, PxPipe packs exactly 3.1 characters into every image token it consumes. It's pu
Why does this work? Because Anthropic charges for text at a rate of approximately one token per four characters, but charges for images at a fixed price based on their pixel dimensions. And within that difference in pricing models, PxPipe packs exactly 3.1 characters into every image token it consumes. It’s pure arbitrage. It’s not hacking, and it’s not a security vulnerability: it’s using the system’s rules exactly as written, but in a way that nobody at Anthropic anticipated anyone would do at this scale.
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