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Re:Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place by BonoboIO on Friday July 25, 2025 @09:48AM (#44683090)
On gemini 2.5 pro output token are token except if you are using structure output, then all character are count as a token each for billing.

Can you elaborate this? I don’t quite understand the difference.

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Re:Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place by rsanek on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:52PM (#44689441)
I hadn't heard of this before either and can't find anything to support it on the pricing page.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/tokens

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