The thinking-effort picker can show what each level costs relative to the default.
Effort cost labels sit behind a remote flag that falls back to off in this build.
tengu_marbled_teal Off in both readingsThe flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.
This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.224: on
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.224. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
What's wrong with this entry?
The thinking-effort picker gains a description line under each level: the default level is labelled as the default, and the others show an estimated multiple of the default's cost taken from the model's cost index. When shown it replaces the warning about overthinking at the top level. It is behind the remote flag tengu_marbled_teal, which falls back to off in this build, so whether you see it is decided by server config.
The default effort for this model
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Related
Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.
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v2.1.227
Resuming an interrupted thinking block accepts more model spellings
Both mention thinking
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v2.1.236
A special thinking-block check is wired up but always answers no
Both mention thinking
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v2.1.238
Effort store split, with a settings writer
Both mention effort