What AI Model Effort to Use for Coding
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Summary
A coding-recipes site publishes per-model guidance on the cheapest AI reasoning-effort setting that keeps a model within 90% of its best FrontierCode 2.0 score, skipping levels a cheaper same-vendor model matches. For Claude Opus 5.5, xhigh reaches 95% of peak score at 40% of max's cost.