jargon

Applied AI·How models work

use reasoning modes for hard problems, not for every call; a simple extraction task does not need thinking tokens.

Reasoning model / extended thinking

Also calledextended thinking

A model trained to produce a long internal chain of reasoning tokens before its final answer, substantially improving maths, code and multi-step tasks. You pay for those thinking tokens and wait for them, so reasoning modes trade latency and cost for quality.