How to Call Gemini 4 Argon with the OpenAI SDK: Streaming, reasoning_effort and the Real Cost of Each Request
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You send Gemini 4 Argon a one-line question, get a one-word answer, and the usage block says you paid for about 70 output tokens. That is not a bug. Argon thinks before every answer, and thinking is billed as output. Gemini 4 Argon ( gemini-4-argon ) is Google's flagship reasoning model, available…
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How to Call Gemini 4 Argon with the OpenAI SDK: Streaming, reasoning_effort and the Real Cost of Each Request