📡 RSS: The Price of Thinking: Reasoning Effort as a Model-Specific API Contract — arXiv:2608.16956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: API buyers purchase a dated contract, not a model name alone: the contract includes the requested and served model, reasoning-effort term or its omission, output rail, service product, prompt, and price schedule. We study the reasoning-effort term thr

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