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fix(model): make Model.small prefer free/cheap models and respect enabled state - #56761

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Closes #52004

Type of change

  • Bug fix

What does this PR do?

Model.small hardcoded the gpt-luna family first, ignoring cost and the enabled flag. On opencode-go this always resolves to the metered gpt-6-luna, even when free models exist or the model is disabled by the user. The picker now filters to enabled models and prefers free (zero-cost) ones, falling back to the cheapest.

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Ran bun run typecheck and bun test test/model.test.ts in packages/core (9/9 pass).

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  • I have not included unrelated changes in this PR

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Related: #52367, #56755

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This fixes the reported case, but picks the wrong model on providers without prices, and it breaks the existing Model.small tests.

I checked it with a small test against Model.small, run on the base and on this PR:

  • Like the issue (opencode-go): with gpt-6-luna ($0.10), a free model with no family and a pricier model, the base picks gpt-6-luna and this PR picks the free model, so the issue is fixed.
  • Provider without prices (local, subscription or custom): with a claude-haiku model and a newer claude-opus one, the base picks the haiku model and this PR picks the opus one. Every model without a price counts as "free", so the newest one wins, which is often the largest. Title requests could then run on big or slow models, or use up per-request quotas.

Tests:

  • In packages/core, bun test test/catalog.test.ts -t "small model" passes on the base and fails 2/2 here: one expects newer-luna and gets newer-flash, the other expects undefined and now gets a model.
  • test/model.test.ts passes, but it doesn't test Model.small.
  • Typecheck is clean.

The public API is unchanged.

The main concern is that the size-based preference is gone (inline comment). A safer fix would keep the family list and put the provider's free models ahead of it. The two existing tests need updating to match whatever behaviour is intended. The added model.enabled check has no effect (inline comment).

Related: #52367, #56755

Comment thread packages/core/src/model.ts Outdated
const models = value.available.filter(
(model) =>
model.providerID === providerID &&
model.enabled &&

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This check has no effect: value.available already contains only enabled models (all.filter((model) => model.enabled) above), so disabled models were already excluded. It can be removed, along with the part of the new comment about disabled models.

Price alone doesn't tell us whether a model is small. On providers without prices (local, subscription or custom), every model counts as "free", so this returns the newest one, often the largest (in my test it picked claude-opus over claude-haiku). It also means small always returns something: the old "no small family matched, use the session's model" fallback in SessionContext.selectTitle no longer happens. Could you keep the family preference and only add a cheaper free choice ahead of it? For example, prefer free models with a price listed on providers that also have paid models, then fall back to the family list. Note that only cost[0].input is compared here, so output prices and other price tiers are ignored. The two small model tests in test/catalog.test.ts now fail and need updating to match the intended behaviour.

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r-icks force-pushed the fix/model-small-prefer-free branch from 39cc970 to 7f83adc Compare October 18, 2026 10:50
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r-icks force-pushed the fix/model-small-prefer-free branch from 7f83adc to 861d419 Compare October 18, 2026 11:00

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title generation: Model.small selects a metered model even when the provider offers a free one

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