You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cost TrackingArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.293,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear Which kinds of usage get a different price is not known, so it is unclear whose cost estimates will change.
What
When Claude Code works out the estimated cost of a request, it now looks up which pricing entry applies, based on the model and the usage details of that request. Before, it applied the same fixed per-token rates every time.
Why
Cost estimates can come out differently for some kinds of usage than they did before.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhich kinds of usage get a different price is not known, so it is unclear whose cost estimates will change.
