---
id: reasoning-share-october-2026
slug: reasoning-token-share-by-provider-october-2026
title: "Reasoning-token share of provider output, October 2026"
topic: agentic
period: Oct 2026
updated: 2026-11-11
license: CC BY 4.0
canonical: https://www.requesty.ai/data/reasoning-token-share-by-provider-october-2026
---

# Reasoning-token share of provider output, October 2026

> How much provider output is reasoning? In October 2026 reasoning tokens made up 78% of output on Fireworks, the highest share, and 6% on Mistral, the lowest among providers with meaningful reasoning volume.

*Topic: Agentic workloads. Period: Oct 2026. Last updated 2026-11-11.*

## Why it matters

Reasoning tokens are billed as output but never shown to users. Providers with a high share serve mostly thinking models, so output cost per visible answer is higher there.

## Questions this answers

- Which providers serve the most reasoning tokens?
- What share of output tokens are reasoning tokens?
- How much do thinking models change output cost?

## Key findings

1. Fireworks: 78%.
2. Melious: 69%.
3. Vertex (Claude): 58%.
4. TensorX: 56%.
5. OpenAI: 48%.

## Data

| Provider | Reasoning share (percent) |
| --- | --- |
| Vertex (Gemini) | 40.79% |
| Azure | 41.82% |
| TensorX | 55.94% |
| OpenAI | 47.69% |
| DeepInfra | 10.05% |
| Nebius | 11.86% |
| Bedrock | 26.93% |
| Anthropic | 45.19% |
| DeepSeek | 45.46% |
| Vertex (Claude) | 58.00% |
| Novita | 23.93% |
| Melious | 68.53% |
| Mistral | 6.46% |
| Lyceum | 11.74% |
| Fireworks | 78.49% |

## Caveats

- reasoning_tokens divided by output_tokens. Providers with negligible reasoning output are omitted.

## Cite as

**APA.** Requesty (2026). Reasoning-token share of provider output, October 2026. Requesty Data. https://www.requesty.ai/data/reasoning-token-share-by-provider-october-2026

```bibtex
@misc{requesty_reasoning_token_share_by_provider_october_2026,
  author       = {{Requesty}},
  title        = {Reasoning-token share of provider output, October 2026},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.requesty.ai/data/reasoning-token-share-by-provider-october-2026}},
  note         = {Requesty Data}
}
```

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