Trial period
Why hasn't this been done already?
Turning your photos into a checked, sourced description seems useful, yet no site we know of offers it. Before going further we would like your view. Tick any that apply.
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What the cost is, and where it comes from
- Who charges: the photos are read by Anthropic's Claude model through its paid service (API), charged by the "token", a small unit of text or image. This site uses Claude Opus 5.5: $4 per million tokens read and $20 per million written; the smaller Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs half (Anthropic pricing, checked 2026-11-12).
- A photo costs about width × height ÷ 750 tokens (Anthropic vision guide): roughly 1,500–3,000 tokens for a photo sized for reading.
- One description from 6–20 photos, with the character list and rules: about 10–25 cents (a first real one, from 6 photos, cost 11.7 cents).
- At scale: Mushroom Observer holds about half a million observations (Wikipedia, 2024 figure). Describing them all once: roughly $50,000–125,000 (half that with the smaller model). Describing 10,000 new observations a day: roughly $1,000–2,500 a day. Anthropic's batch service halves these when results can wait some hours.
- Plus people's time: the model only proposes; every value is checked by the observer before it counts.
- Here, during the trial, the site's owner pays from a fixed monthly allowance, with lower limits on this site.