---
title: "Set the thinking budget in Factory CLI"
description: "toggle thinking budget"
canonical: "https://ian.is/factory-reasoning-budget"
language: "en"
---

[Ian Nuttall](https://ian.is/)

# Set the thinking budget in Factory CLI

September 19, 2025

if you don't like using "ultrathink" or hard coding the thinking budget in claude code, the factory cli has it in a reasoning setting you can toggle, nice and simple

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