Unverified50% confidenceTradeoffExact time
Reasoning content is often billed the same as regular text in terms of token counting, so retaining reasoning increases the number of tokens carried in requests and affects call costs.
1
Sources
50%
Confidence
Long-term
Relevance
9/17/2026
First Seen
Sources
Related Entities
Related Claims
UnverifiedToken billing is calculated based on the total volume of input and output; the longer a conversation, the more each call pays for an increasingly bloated history.77% similarUnverifiedOutput tokens (content generated by the model) are typically more expensive than input tokens (prompts provided by the user).77% similarUnverifiedThinking tokens for reasoning models are typically billed, and setting a token budget cap can prevent runaway costs from a single request.76% similarUnverifiedInput tokens and output tokens are typically priced differently, and in multi-turn conversations, repeatedly passing in historical messages causes costs to accumulate linearly with conversation depth75% similar
Cite This Claim
Stable URI
https://kongchang.com/claim/928181API
curl https://kongchang.com/api/v1/knowledge/claims/928181MCP
get_claim(id=928181)