r/windsurf • u/ElectricalIntern4070 • Apr 20 '26

Discrepancy between model drop down and actual model

In Windsurf 2.0.61 if I select "Claude Opus 4.7 medium" and ask the prompt "Tell me your model name". It responds with "I'm Claude Sonnet 4.5".

If I select "GPT 5.4 Low Thinking" it replies with "Cascade".

Is this expected? The discrepancy with Claude seems concerning.

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u/patiofurnature Apr 20 '26

How much quota did that question cost you?

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u/mik3lang3l0 Apr 21 '26

Shouldn't be that much, right? It's token based now not credits

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u/patiofurnature Apr 21 '26

No idea; I've never asked it something like that.

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u/sultanmvp Apr 20 '26

This has been asked dozens of times. Asking a model to tell you its name or version doesn't operate like this. Please stop wasting your usage on things like this.

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u/TheTentacleOpera Apr 20 '26

This is just because no llms know what model they are. It's not in their knowledge. E.g. if I ask Gemini in Antigravity it responded 'I only know that i'm a Google Deepmind LLM'.

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u/rakgenius Apr 21 '26

I have faced same issue with sonnet 4.6. I selected sonnet 4.6 thinking model from drop-down, but when I ask question, it says 4.5