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Your Gemini 3.8 Flash Token Counter Is Wrong

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The Problem You are building a Python service that talks to Gemini 3.8 Flash. To stay under the model’s token limits you count tokens locally before you send the request. Your code looks correct – you are using tiktoken or a Hugging Face tokenizer. Yet the numbers you see are consistently 10‑20 % o…

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  1. 2026-09-03 06:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Your Gemini 3.8 Flash Token Counter Is Wrong

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