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Walkie Research

Original measurements and cross-vendor calculations on what visual context costs an AI coding agent. Every study ships its method, its data as CSV, and a licence that lets you reuse the numbers with credit.

Benchmark

Visual context token cost benchmark: 2026 edition

A 30-second screen review frame-dumped at 1 frame per second costs 80,730 input tokens on Claude 4.7 and later at 1920x1080, 61,200 on OpenAI GPT-5.6 and 33,600 on Gemini 3, all calculated from published rules. A complete Walkie bundle covering the same review measures about 3,500 tokens on Claude.

Updated August 2026