A 2,000 by 1,500 photo costs 2.5 times the visual tokens on Claude Haiku 5.5 as on Haiku 4.5

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Send a 2,000 by 1,500 pixel photograph to Claude Haiku 5.5 and it counts as about two and a half times as many visual tokens as the same file did on Claude Haiku 4.5. The figure is Anthropic's own. The Haiku 5.5 migration guide puts it in one sentence: "An image of 2,000 by 1,500 ... A 2,000 by…