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When to pay for a reasoning model on a request

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A reasoning model spends extra tokens before it answers. Send every request there and you pay latency plus a larger bill for lookups a standard model already handles. Skip thinking entirely and you give up the accuracy gain on hard problems. A standard model answers in one pass. A reasoning model i…

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