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Subagents are the only part of claude code worth pointing at a cheaper model

​ I spent a few weeks trying to run CC against cheaper models and kept getting worse output for about the same money, for anyone doing this here's the breakdown. Claude code leans hard on prompt caching and your cached history is the cheapest thing in the session. Reading back 100k of cached contex…

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  1. 2026-10-30 15:11 · r/AI_Agents
    Subagents are the only part of claude code worth pointing at a cheaper model

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