The price of thinking: reasoning effort as a model-specific API contract
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.16956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: API buyers purchase a dated contract, not a model name alone: the contract includes the requested and served model, reasoning-effort term or its omission, output rail,...
Original headline: "The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract"
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- Aug 19, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.AI lead source The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract