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model tier
A ranking of models by relative capability and cost, from cheap and fast to expensive and frontier, used to decide which tier suits a given role in a pipeline.
also written as model tiers · tier A
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effortA per-subagent setting that controls how much a model deliberates before acting, trading thoroughness for speed, fewer tool calls, and lower spend. Left unset, it silently inherits the session's higher default.view termreasoning modelA model trained to produce an internal chain of thought before its final answer, trading extra deliberation for higher capability on hard problems.view term
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