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Per-subagent model control in Claude Code: let the cheap model grind, the expensive one judge
A model: key in a subagent's YAML frontmatter picks the model for that leg of the work. Haiku workers plus one Opus judge take an eight-way fan-out from $3.00 to $0.80 — and unlike /model mid-session, it leaves the parent's prompt cache intact.
By Andrew MercerBackgrind Blog

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Originally published by Backgrind Blog on Jul 29, 2026.
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