Claude Code Tip: Opus 5.5 + 10 Haiku Subagents Is 3x Faster and 70% Cheaper
Arindam_1729 · x · 2026-10-10
A practical Claude Code tiering playbook: Anthropic's egg-drop test on Claude Managed Agents showed Opus 5.5 commanding 10 Haiku 5.5 subagents built 32m in 58s for $0.14 vs 3m37s/$0.47 solo — 3x faster, 70% cheaper. Key gotcha: the built-in Explore subagent inherits your main model, so define your own with model: haiku. Recommended setup: Opus high-effort for the main session, Haiku for exploration/docs, Opus subagents for edits and tests. Includes a prompt to generate the config, plus a 5-layer safety setup for YOLO mode.
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