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Soft, typically.
Went through this twice in the past six months... Both times I received a counter-offer (soft pull) with the option for a manual review (hard pull).
if it accepts your amount, usually a soft. if it give you a counter-offer, that should be a soft too. if you have to talk someone, normally they're going to end up asking for permission to pull your reports-that would be a hard.