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		BonoboIO 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data 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.

rsanek 6 months ago [–]

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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