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Claude 3.7 Sonnet Hybrid Reasoning: API Costs with Extended Thinking Tokens

Claude 3.7 Sonnet introduces hybrid reasoning at standard Sonnet pricing, but extended thinking tokens bill at the full $15/1M output rate. Here is how thinking budgets from 1k to 64k tokens impact API expenditures and how to engineer cost-effective agentic routing.