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 "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/reasoning-effort",
 "slug": "reasoning-effort",
 "prefLabel": "Reasoning effort",
 "altLabel": [
  "Thinking budget",
  "Reasoning budget",
  "Thinking level",
  "Test-time compute"
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 "hiddenLabel": [],
 "definition": "A setting which controls how long or how many tokens are spent by a model reasoning before providing an answer.",
 "scopeNote": "",
 "tier": null,
 "group": "How models work",
 "broader": [
  "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/inference"
 ],
 "narrower": [],
 "related": [
  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/reasoning-model",
   "type": "related"
  },
  {
   "id": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/cost-per-task",
   "type": "related"
  }
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 "links": [],
 "modified": "2026-10-21",
 "markdown": "https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/reasoning-effort.md",
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