diff --git a/MoneyMap/Services/AIVisionClient.cs b/MoneyMap/Services/AIVisionClient.cs
index d289cfd..9290d7b 100644
--- a/MoneyMap/Services/AIVisionClient.cs
+++ b/MoneyMap/Services/AIVisionClient.cs
@@ -220,6 +220,10 @@ namespace MoneyMap.Services
         {
             var trimmed = content?.Trim() ?? "";
 
+            // Strip <think>...</think> blocks from reasoning models (e.g. Qwen3-VL-Thinking)
+            trimmed = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(
+                trimmed, @"<think>[\s\S]*?</think>", "", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase).Trim();
+
             // Strip markdown code fences
             if (trimmed.StartsWith("```json"))
             {
@@ -816,7 +820,7 @@ namespace MoneyMap.Services
                         }
                     }
                 },
-                max_tokens = 4096,
+                max_tokens = 16384,
                 temperature = 0.1
             };
 
@@ -898,7 +902,7 @@ namespace MoneyMap.Services
                     OpenAIToolUseHelper.BuildToolsArray(tools),
                     toolExecutor,
                     maxToolRounds,
-                    maxTokens: 4096,
+                    maxTokens: 16384,
                     _logger);
             }
             catch (TaskCanceledException ex) when (ex.InnerException is TimeoutException)