Inference
Effort (reasoning effort)
A setting on reasoning models that controls how much they think before answering, trading cost and speed for quality.
Typical levels are low, medium and high. Higher effort helps on hard problems; low effort is often enough for routine requests and much cheaper.
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What does Effort (reasoning effort) mean?
A setting on reasoning models that controls how much they think before answering, trading cost and speed for quality. Typical levels are low, medium and high. Higher effort helps on hard problems; low effort is often enough for routine requests and much cheaper.