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How do OpenAI API bills account for reasoning tokens?

Shamma Al Marzooqi 45 21 Oct 2026

I’m trying to estimate costs for a feature that uses a reasoning model, and the visible answer is only part of the response. How should I interpret the usage fields when reasoning token billing is involved? Are those tokens counted separately from the text the model returns, and what’s the best way to forecast spend before rolling this out to more users?


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