Cost & billing
Reasoning tokens
Tokens a reasoning model generates while thinking through a problem. They are usually hidden from you but billed as output, so they can quietly raise costs.
In practice
A reasoning model may spend 3,000 thinking tokens before a 200-token answer, and you pay for all 3,200.
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