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Reasoning
Extended thinking for math, logic and analysis. Models that spend extra tokens thinking before answering, for problems where being right matters more than being fast. Reach for one when a wrong answer is expensive: the a model writes before it replies arrives as , billed as output, which is why a careful answer costs more than a quick one.
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What to look for
What to look for in Reasoning
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Pay for hard problems only
Reasoning tokens cost real money. Route routine requests to a language model and reserve reasoning models for genuinely hard problems.
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Watch output pricing
Reasoning models bill their thinking. Output price per 1M tokens matters far more here than input price.
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Compare open-weight options
Open reasoning models have closed much of the gap. Check them first when economics matter.
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