I’m using Deep Research by API with websearch tool. It counts way more Input tokens than it should be. Even with small input prompt, I get couple millions of tokens usage. In the screenshots you can see, that I have too much cached and noncached input tokens usage which I never used. And as a conseq…

Why are Deep Research API token counts so high?

jlvanhulst July 5, 2025, 10:15am 4

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