cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.GT, cs.LG, cs.MA

The Price Reversal Phenomenon: When Cheaper Reasoning Models End Up Costing More

arXiv:2603.23971v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Developers and consumers increasingly choose reasoning language models (RLMs) based on their listed API prices. However, how accurately do these prices reflect actual inference costs? We conduct the fi…