Background

976x704 is one of the smallest image resolutions you can request with the arbitrary sizes now available with gpt-image-2 - and my requirement.

API Challenge (ChatGPT DQ’d)

Your remaining budget for text input after image output: $0.00113

Text input costs $0.000005 per token.

220 tokens of text input language can be sent while staying at exactly $0.005 or below (after an internal 6 token overhead), half of one US cent.

Why size?

The particular aspect ratio nearly maximizes the area of an image that you see natively on this forum, from downsizing rules.

976x704 → 690x497

Your challenge

Awesomeness for the price of a rounding error.

Staying under 220 prompt text tokens and {"size":"976x704", "quality":"low"} fascinate us on the cheap.

No artifacts, not a preview: pure impressive demonstration that “mini” models can be left behind now by using gpt-image-2 if you want quick and high-quality even with API’s low quality.

Elite entrants are in the $0.004 club: only 20 tokens of input.

https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

Tip: when you upload an image to the forum in the markdown-based editor, you see: ![image|690x497](upload://eUgDKei2u9wFyZKQpJPShYYd5Qf.jpeg)

or “image” there is your filename if not a paste. Replace “image” with your prompt, and others can mouse-hover to see the text.

Prize

Stuff to look at. Proud you honestly did it.

OOPS - a $0.0058 prompt image is this post in the prompt.