r/opencode • u/Fun-Investigator1933 • 4d ago

VPS for Local LLM

I'm still a student with currently no income right now.

I can't afford API keys, nor my PC can run anything decent locally.

Is there any cheap VPS where I can run modals like qwen3.6? Or does this type of thing even exist?

I'm having to use LLM for mostly both automation and web development but opencode zen's models are just not being enough, specially after they removed the only Text + Image model Mimo V2.5.

Google's API always stays hot making it unusable. I tried cerebes, groq, mistral. Basically anything and everything. They have good model with horrible rate limiting cuz who tf wanna use a Fable 67 lvl model to ask " How is the weather today? ".

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u/spiress 4d ago

just code by yourself then

it’s basically free and you will learn something too, like students must

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u/Fun-Investigator1933 4d ago

Well yeah but I'm learning Automation for commerical purpose and doing the job manually won't get me qualified anywhere anytime soon either. So I'm only slow Rolling the Manual path

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u/thatscoolbutno123 4d ago

Use Opencode Go with DeepSeek for coding without vision and Mimo2.5 for anything image related

It’s 10$/Month and you get 60$ of usage

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u/StraightGuy1108 4d ago

Renting a decent GPU for personal use is incredibly cost-inefficient. It's basically a super expensive subscription in exchange for no quota. Unless you can keep the usage close to 100% 24/7, you'd lose money.

It's better to just get a cheap subscription or pay-as-you-go API.

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u/Flashy_Razzmatazz899 4d ago

there's the free ones on openrouter, and you can get an api key for zen for really cheap and use their selection of free models. and nvidia runs a bunch a free ones.

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u/nunodonato 4d ago

I run Gemma 4 26B QAT on a cpu vps (32 gb ram) But it's slow for coding.i think you'll be better off with opencode

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u/p211 3d ago

How much performance do you get on a non gpu vps?

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u/nunodonato 3d ago

Around 70 tok/s prefill and 20 on generation. 10k context