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The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract
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API contractsreasoning effortmodel evaluation
2608.16956
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Abstract
This paper examines the impact of reasoning effort on API contracts, comparing high-effort and omitted-effort models.
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Core Claim
The study found that explicit high-effort contracts resulted in a higher mean cost per call without a significant difference in accuracy compared to omitted-effort contracts.
Method / Result
Mean delivered cost was $0.01031 per call higher under the explicit-high contract than under the omitted contract.
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The claims are bounded to the specific model, task, and collection date studied, which may limit generalizability.
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