Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cost TrackingArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.246,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When your settings define no model pricing table, Claude Code now uses a pricing table supplied by the host application it is embedded in, provided no other pricing source is populated.
Details
The settings_model_pricing telemetry event gained a host boolean recording which source was used.
Host pricing applies only when settings pricing is undefined, not when it is empty.
Evidence
settings_model_pricing
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.