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Inference Cost and Token Spend

Reasoning effort levels that trade extra tokens for accuracy, and the cost consequences for callers.

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Google's new Flash buys its benchmark wins with extra tokens

Gemini 3.8 Flash arrived three weeks after Google's last model, its cybersecurity sibling is invite-only, and Google says higher effort levels can spend more tokens. Standardising on a model name now has a shelf life.

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Inference Cost and Token Spend — Clarity Today