alt Hacker NewsGemini carbon low costs more than medium! Weird results on that chart, care to explain?
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eli • today at 7:45 PM
More reasoning solves tricky problems in fewer steps and makes fewer mistakes that need to be redone.
Gemini carbon low costs more than medium! Weird results on that chart, care to explain?
More reasoning solves tricky problems in fewer steps and makes fewer mistakes that need to be redone.
It's the cost per task. Sometimes it happens that the higher-effort model solves the problem in fewer tokens, thus making the overall price cheaper. It even happens with models (from the same or a different provider) that are priced differently.