Image Prompt Packaging Cuts Multimodal Inference...

A new method called Image Prompt Packaging (IPPg) embeds structured text directly into images, reducing token-based inference costs by 35.8–91% across GPT-4.1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Performance outcomes are highly model-dependent, with GPT-4.1 showing simultaneous accuracy and cost gains on some tasks. Image Prompt Packaging Cuts Multimodal Inference Costs Up to 91% Deploying large multimodal models at scale is bottlenecked by token-based pricing, where every text token—including those