Why are Deep Research API token counts so high?

Welcome to the OpenAI dev community, @Rustemov_Bauyrzhan.

The deep research models are agentic models, which per the Deep Research docs:

The o3-deep-research and o4-mini-deep-research models can find, analyze, and synthesize hundreds of sources to create a comprehensive report at the level of a research analyst.

Thus, the input costs would correspond to the web search result ingestion and analysis.

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