Claude Code ships a per-model table of what each effort level costs
Hidden inside the Claude Code binary, effort_cost_index provides the following per-model token-usage estimate for the same task. It is normalized so high = 1 . Model low medium high xhigh max xhigh to max sonnet-5 0.47 0.74 1 2.41 5.59 +132% opus-4-8 0.72 0.90 1 1.65 1.88 +14% opus-5 0.67 0.76 1 1.…
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- 2026-09-19 07:56 · r/ClaudeAI
Claude Code effort level and model selection | Claude - 2026-09-18 14:08 · r/ClaudeAI
Claude Code ships a per-model table of what each effort level costs