Reasoning best practices
by OpenAI
When to pick a reasoning model and how prompting them differs from chat models.
OpenAI explains situations where reasoning models are useful and how to give them suitable tasks. It is a helpful comparison point before reusing a prompt designed for a different model family.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Models
- openai-reasoning-models
- Category
- Prompting
- Tags
- reasoning
- Source date
- date not stated
- Added
- 2026-10-18
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
- Status
- ok
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