Lower-Scoring LLM Endpoints Produce Fewer Output Tokens

• token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.

The same model name served by different providers can quietly reason less; output-token counts per task are a cheap tell for which endpoints are being throttled before you commit traffic to them.

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