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Bedrock count_tokens fallback no longer uses Haiku probe

Bedrock token counting fallback now uses your own model instead of a Haiku probe.

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Bedrock token counting fallback now uses your own model instead of a Haiku probe.

When a Bedrock-style proxy returns 501 for count_tokens, the client no longer falls back to a Haiku max_tokens:1 probe. It instead counts tokens with a one-token request using the session's own model, unless ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL or ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL is set.

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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL, on Connect Claude Code to an LLM gateway. * **Model versions**: pin `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL`, `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL`, and `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL` as in [Pin model versions](/docs/en/google-vertex-ai#5-pin-model-versions). Setting `ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MO… llm-gateway-connect see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL, on Connect Claude Code to an LLM gateway.

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