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Sending text as images cut my Claude tokens by up to 81%. It also started inventing numbers.

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There is a trick going around for cutting Claude Code bills: render bulky context (system prompt, tool docs, logs, old history) as dense PNG images instead of text. An image is billed by its pixel size, not by how much text is inside it, so a page packed with small characters can cost far fewer tok…

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  1. 2026-10-21 07:14 · DEV Community — AI
    Sending text as images cut my Claude tokens by up to 81%. It also started inventing numbers.

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