You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cost ReportingArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.239,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
Reported per-request cost now multiplies the token-derived subtotal by 1.1 when the API says the request was served in the US region, and by 1 otherwise. The web search fee is added afterwards and is not multiplied. Dollar figures in cost and usage reporting will be higher for US-region traffic than in previous builds.
Details
The region comes from an inference_geo field on the API response, so this is decided by the server, not by any client setting or flag.
The field is carried through the helper that normalises usage records and defaults to an empty string when absent, which yields the 1x factor.
Evidence
inference_geo
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
