{"version":"2.1.285","anchor":"model-fallback-logic-accounts-for-self-target-default-fallba","canonical_anchor":"model-fallback-logic-accounts-for-self-target-default-fallba","heading":"Default fallback models now depend on a server setting and on differing from the main model","tier":"notice","area":"Models","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285\/e\/model-fallback-logic-accounts-for-self-target-default-fallba","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.285","markdown":"### Default fallback models now depend on a server setting and on differing from the main model\n\nWhether Claude Code uses a default fallback model now also depends on a server setting and on the fallback differing from the main model\n\n**Unclear.** The exact effect on which fallback model a reader ends up using is unclear.\n\n**What**\n\nA fallback model is a second model Claude Code can switch to when the main one can't be used. Whether a default fallback applies now depends on two further things:\n\n- `selfTargetDefaultFallbacksEnabled`, a setting that Anthropic's servers provide\n\n- whether the fallback model is different from the main model\n\n**Why**\n\nThis changes when a fallback is offered for a model whose fallback is the same model.\n\n- Area: Models\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}