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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
Per-subagent model control in Claude Code: let the cheap model grind, the expensive one judge

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Originally published by Backgrind Blog on Jul 29, 2026.

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