Comment Comment by XCSme > 3.1 Flash-Lite (reasoning)(reasoning) doesn't say much. Is it low/med/high reasoning? I ran my own benchmarks, and 3.1 Flash-Lite on high costs A LOT: https://aibenchy.com/compare/google-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-pr...Do not use 3.1 Flash-Lite with HIGH reasoning, it reasons for almost max output size, you can quickly get to millions of tokens of reasoning in a few requests. parent XCSme 8 months ago
(reasoning) doesn't say much. Is it low/med/high reasoning? I ran my own benchmarks, and 3.1 Flash-Lite on high costs A LOT: https://aibenchy.com/compare/google-gemini-3-1-flash-lite-pr...
Do not use 3.1 Flash-Lite with HIGH reasoning, it reasons for almost max output size, you can quickly get to millions of tokens of reasoning in a few requests.