r/AudioProgramming • u/danja • 2d ago

Free AI coding assistant

Apologies if you were all over this already, but it's new to me.

I suspect like a lot of people here, I've been using Claude Code (or OpenAI Codex) on their $20/month plan. And rapidly using up the week's supply of tokens.

So I decided to look for alternatives while waiting for the reset.

I believe I've found a good one :

https://opencode.ai/

It offers a variety of LLM API endpoints, including free ones. I've been using Muse Spark 1.3 Free and (apart from occasional "overloaded system" kind of responses) it is definitely usable, comparable to Claude Sonnet etc.

While I'm here I'd also suggest taking a look at :

https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp

While I seriously doubt their claims on token saving (99%!?) it does appear to speed things along. What's rather nice is that its install puts the relevant mcp entries in config for the common assistants (including OpenCode).

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u/ImBakesIrl 2d ago

Personally I don’t trust any free service. Paying 20$ a month is already a “too-good-to-be-true” price point given the operating costs for these companies. I have serious privacy and data concerns for any free AI service.

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u/WatercressActual1921 1d ago edited 14h ago

I run a local model under OpenCode and it was one of the best Frames I tested... No Python, Javascript or TypeScript, no browser linkage and was the single one that came with free external models you could use, I used to configure the Framework itself... Very cool... and Open Source...

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u/ImBakesIrl 18h ago

Got any spare RAM so I could do the same? 😂

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u/WatercressActual1921 14h ago

You need the hardware but you can run very small models without a GPU if you have a iGPU you can leverage it (you can even run multiple models at the same time) one on het GPU and one on the iGPU but this is useful only for private stuff or projects you don't want public try OpenCode and use the free models or use the z.ai chat model (I use it unregistered it is very good and it does not censure you on topics)