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At AIHubMix pricing (input $0.165, output $0.66, cache reads $0.0165 per 1M tokens), the default max setting makes thinking tokens account for 95% of output (6,364/6,673), with thinking cost more than 10 times that of the low-intensity setting and latency close to 6 times.
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Short-term (~14 days)
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10/19/2026
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Valid until: 11/2/2026
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