[potlee]

If you use your own search tool, you would have to pay for input tokens again every time the model decides to search. This would be a big discount if they only charging once for all output as output tokens but seems unclear from the blog post

[stephpang]

Thanks for the feedback, just updated our docs to hopefully make this a little clearer. Search results count towards input tokens on every subsequent iteration

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us...

[potlee]

Thanks for addressing it. Still sounds like a significant discount if only the search results and not all messages count are input tokens on subsequent iterations!