27,262 thinking tokens, zero answer—and a 'resolved' Google Cloud billing case
Plenty-Jackfruit-218 · reddit · 2026-11-13
An r/googlecloud user reports that a Gemini request consumed 27,262 thinking tokens yet produced no answer—and the related billing ticket was marked "resolved" anyway. The post fuels debate over whether failed reasoning tokens should be billed at all.
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