Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.321,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
When Claude Code tracks the cost of using each model, it now passes along more details about the model:
context window, how much text the model can take in at once
maximum output tokens, how much it can write in one reply
its standard model name
the provider
the cost basis
The counts it sends to OpenTelemetry, a standard way of sending usage figures to monitoring tools, are now sent slightly later rather than immediately.
Why
Per-model cost records carry more detail than before.