# AI translations errors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-errors/402477
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** ai
**Created:** [May 8, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-errors/402477 "2026-05-08T13:01:09Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-translations-errors/402477/8 "2026-05-08T19:53:51Z")

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The reasoning tokens are eating all the tokens on the `max_tokens` completion limit. Another reason we don’t use reasoning for translations.

We had a site setting to deal with this

> [@Discourse AI Failing to translate large number of posts and topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-failing-to-translate-large-number-of-posts-and-topics/385414/12):
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> We just merged an update that gives you access to a new setting ai\_translation\_max\_tokens\_multiplier which defaults to 1. You should be able to bump this up to any number you like to deal with the limit you’re seeing.

But we removed it back in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38965](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38965)

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