From 03d90ed59a18c0d412c35375b46d6abe6246384c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "kiloconnect[bot]" <240665456+kiloconnect[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:55:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat(gateway): change default model from kilo-auto/frontier
 to kilo-auto/balanced

---
 packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/constants.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/constants.ts b/packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/constants.ts
index a0268a7530e..086aea7149f 100644
--- a/packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/kilo-gateway/src/api/constants.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export const KILO_OPENROUTER_BASE = `${KILO_API_BASE}/api/openrouter`
 export const POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 3000
 
 /** Default model for authenticated users */
-export const DEFAULT_MODEL = "kilo-auto/frontier"
+export const DEFAULT_MODEL = "kilo-auto/balanced"
 
 /** Default model for anonymous/free usage */
 export const DEFAULT_FREE_MODEL = "kilo-auto/free"