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Reasoning tokens count toward TPM and billing, even if they do not appear in the final reply.
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10/15/2026
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UnverifiedReasoning Tokens count toward max_output_tokens and billing, and output Tokens likewise consume TPM.77% similarUnverifiedA token is the basic unit of text processed by an LLM, and it can be a complete word, part of a word, punctuation, or a space.61% similarUnverifiedDifferent models may use different tokenizers, and the token count for the same piece of text may vary across models.58% similarUnverifiedConstrained decoding dynamically filters the vocabulary through external logic at each token generation step, allowing only grammatically valid tokens to be sampled; common implementations include Outlines, LMQL, and the json_schema response format built into inference engines.57% similarUnverifiedThe same passage of text may be split into different numbers of tokens under different tokenizers, while API billing and context window limits are both measured in token counts.57% similar
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