What Thinking Mode Actually Costs You (September 2026)
Reasoning tokens, latency, and KV cache cost of thinking mode in local LLMs. How to toggle it per runner and when it is the wrong choice.
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Reasoning tokens, latency, and KV cache cost of thinking mode in local LLMs. How to toggle it per runner and when it is the wrong choice.
The advertised context window is one number. What your GPU can actually serve is smaller. The KV cache math, RoPE scaling, and the practical ceiling.