# Enviar código como imagen bajó ~60% el costo en tokens

> Author: Tony Lee
> Published: 2026-07-03
> URL: https://tonylee.im/es/blog/code-as-image-cuts-token-cost-60-percent/
> Reading time: 1 minutes
> Language: es
> Tags: anthropic, tokens, fable-5, ocr, cost, pxpipe

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## Description

Fuentes densas: ~40k caracteres en una factura de imagen Anthropic. Logs pxpipe y límite Fable 5.

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Alguien envió una captura de código a Fable y los tokens cayeron más de la mitad. Anthropic cobra una imagen 1568px a coste fijo. Con fuente densa, ~40k caracteres pueden costar ~3.279 tokens imagen frente a ~10k en texto.

[pxpipe](https://lnkd.in/gnRhbNS3): ~59% de ahorro en 13.709 peticiones. Fable 5 aguanta en imagen; Opus cae. Deja IDs/hash en texto. `npx pxpipe-proxy` para probar.

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