Check your fallback config: DeepSeek in Claude Code quietly burns tokens on V4-pro

AlchainHust · x · 2026-09-17

A practical heads-up: if you wire DeepSeek's API into Claude Code or similar agents, audit your model configs. The author found that despite switching the main model to V4.1-flash, stale fallback and subagent settings kept routing tokens to the pricier, worse-performing V4-pro, wasting money. Check main, fallback, and subagent model settings.

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