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Can you compare the token consumption overhead of using JSON mode versus function calling when parsing unstructured text with GPT 4o?

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Can you compare the token consumption overhead of using JSON mode versus function calling when parsing unstructured text with GPT 4o?
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OpenAI GPT-4o JSON mode function calling token overhead schema tokens API documentation Google ↗
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  1. Structured model outputs · developers.openai.com
  2. Function calling · developers.openai.com
  3. Function Calling in the OpenAI API · help.openai.com
  4. Understanding and counting tokens · help.openai.com
  5. GPT-4o Model · developers.openai.com

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