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Metrics and tokens

Model usage and the amount of work for every run.

For every task (and every research and audit as well) you can see metrics: how much was done, what it cost and how long it took — no “black box”.

Tiles in the task card

Under the stage strip there are four tiles. Each has a number and a line explaining what it is made of:

  • Changes — how many files were touched and by how many lines, +added −deleted. The tile opens a per-file list.
  • Cost — charged for completed subtasks, in roubles on your plan.
  • Tokens — how many the model used, split into input and output.
  • Time — how long it took from the request to review (or to the merge), and for a run in progress — how long it has been working.
Task metrics — under the stage strip

How tokens are counted

The model is billed on two quantities, and both are shown in full:

  • input — everything the model read: the request itself and cache hits (the cache is cheaper, but these are still input tokens);
  • output — everything the model wrote: the answer and the reasoning.

So “input + output” is exactly the total in the “Tokens” tile. The breakdown — how much of the input came from the cache and how much of the output was reasoning — is shown in the tooltip on hover.

Large values are abbreviated: 31.3M, 609K, 12K — so the number reads at a glance.

The same two quantities appear wherever there is a token counter: in the header of an “Ask” conversation, in a research and in an audit section. The same work is counted the same way everywhere.

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