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smallerizetoday at 4:06 PM1 replyview on HN

How did "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" turn into 95 tokens?


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simonwtoday at 4:09 PM

That's a great question.

I just tried "hi" through the same OpenRouter API and the input token count for that was 86 - and for "hi there" the count was 87.

I think there's an 85 token hidden system prompt of some sort.

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