Claude Fable 5 just got 70% cheaper and nobody's talking about how.

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pxpipe

cut Claude Code token usage by rendering text context as images - teamchong/pxpipe

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The video provides a high-value, actionable 'hack' that solves a specific pain point (high API costs) for a technical audience, making it highly shareable and saveable.

Summary

The creator explains a new tool called pxpipe that reduces Claude Code costs by converting text-based context into images. This technique leverages the pricing difference between image and text tokens to significantly lower API expenses.

Structure

1Hook about cost reduction
2Explanation of the technical mechanism
3Comparison of cost savings
4Call to action to try it

Product placement

The video is a direct demonstration and explanation of the open-source tool pxpipe.

Original caption

A developer a way to cut Fable 5's token costs up to 70% — renders your Claude Code context as an image instead of text, since image tokens price by pixel size, not text density. Real demo: same task went from $42 to $6. Only catch: it's lossy, don't use it for anything needing exact recall. #claudecode #fable5 #aiagents #claudeai #devtools

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Call to action

go ahead and save this right now and try it out. And let me know down in the comment section how it works for you guys.

On-screen text

THE FABLE 5 IMAGE LOOPHOLE 70% CHEAPER pxpipe $42 $6

Transcript

Claude Fable 5 just got 70% cheaper and nobody's talking about how. Instead of sending Claude Code's text as text, this tool renders it as an image. So your system prompt, skills, and context are actually all suppressed into one image. And here's why this works. Image tokens are priced by pixel size, not by how much text they're actually holding. So the dense stuff like your code actually fit way more information per image token than per text token. And that gap is exactly what's getting exploited here. One developer ran a test with this, and without it running, cost $42, and with it running, only cost $6. So go ahead and save this right now and try it out. And let me know down in the comment section how it works for you guys.