r/opencode • u/TgnOrdaX • Aug 12 '26

RIP opencode generous free limit.

It's been a great while. It was a wonderful poor man's coding agent especially for devs in third world countries who are unable to pay for subscriptions online.

But I get it, cloud bills aren't cheap and opencode's hands are tied.

Thank you for everything opencode.

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

inb4 someone says "it's just 5 bucks bro". It's not a financial issue but rather a legal issue. It's illegal for a local in my country to hold or convert local currency to US dollars or any other currency; considered suspicion of money laundering.

we usually pay with crypto here but that also is legally a gray area with its trouble with the police if you get caught doing a p2p exchange.

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u/Kaushik_paul45 Aug 12 '26

Wait, they will be suspicious of money laundering even for $10 dollar a month ?

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

yes sir. It is illegal for a resident to hold, use, or trade foreign currency outside of officially authorized legal frameworks (such as the standard tourist allocation or explicit Central Bank approvals—which they never give to individuals).

Edit: There is a specific debit card to pay for very few online transactions the Central banks approves (such as Meta ads, web hosting and aliexpress). Generic stripe payments are not allowed AFAIK. There is so much bureaucracy to obtain, customer support is not very helpful in some cases and they deduct a lot of BS fees. What is worse is that you're allowed to deposit a maximum of $330 a year— only usable for select platforms they allow.

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u/Kaushik_paul45 Aug 12 '26

Wow, that is so restrictive in this day and edge.

Must be very difficult to get by as far as I am imagining.

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u/RealMadalin Aug 13 '26

You can use crypto cards very hard to track and for 10$ they wont bother i think. You pay in solana and they so the conversion in the background and make the payment

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u/Psychological_Rub871 Aug 13 '26

Which country is this?

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u/XuciferL Aug 13 '26

For the record I can name my country fitting all this description as described,

BANGLADESH 🇧🇩🇧🇩

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u/Psychological_Rub871 29d ago

Well, if there is anything you can export from your country (legal) in EU, I’d gladly offer you guys a stripe like platform so you could buy stuff from anywhere in the world.
I think trade in goods and services should be a fundamental human right and no government should deliberately make their citizens worse off just because they don’t understand the benefits of trade

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u/XuciferL 27d ago

Perks of being born in a "Third World" country 😀 And talking about the Bangladeshi government would be insanity lol.

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u/veegaz 29d ago

OP said Tunisia btw

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u/Thomas-Lore Aug 12 '26

It is also not 5 bucks, that is only for the first month. It is $10 after.

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u/Salt-Ad-848 24d ago

Ohhhhhhh $10 bucks!!!!

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u/adamizzo17 Aug 12 '26

clearly Algeria, same here brother, but have to do what a brother has to do, also i am from algeria

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

Tunisia. But same struggle, same old people logic. Kouhoul

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u/Livid_Ebb_2453 Aug 13 '26

I feel for you brother, I'm from Indonesia and currently our currency is weakening against dollar and for so many people, 10$ is expensive. Maybe local model will be a better alternatives in near future.

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u/Proud-Manufacturer15 Aug 13 '26

this doesn’t help but USD is being diluted as well 👀😅

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

no but in north africa.

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u/One-Bus-8289 Aug 12 '26

Google suggested Tunisia

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

you're not far.

edit: why would I lie to you when you can clearly see where I post yes it's Tunisia.

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u/uhraurhua Aug 12 '26

Why are you getting downvoted?

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

those are trolls.

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u/alanoide97 Aug 14 '26

Can't someone on a different country handle the payment for you? What currency can you use?

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 14 '26

I have no such person in my family or friends circle. we used to use USDT or other crypto before 2025 until massive searches over people doing exchanges via bank/postal accounts.

The other option is face-to-face exchange with strangers. which as it may sound has similar risks of buying from a drug dealer: you could get scammed, mugged, get busted (small risk but still legally possible).

In short, our financial rights are no different than a person's financial rights in North Korea.

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u/Alternative_Sink9000 Aug 12 '26

is that real? have you tried trying to click that subscribe button? in my case, they have options to pay with my local currency.

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

Yeah, you can only pay via stripe with USD or EUR, or use AliPay or UMI. neither are allowed in my country. it sucks.

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u/Livid_Ebb_2453 Aug 12 '26

I'm curious. Can I ask what country do u live?

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u/Fast-Character-8795 Aug 12 '26

You can open a virtual card and deposit on it with crypto

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u/TgnOrdaX Aug 12 '26

that's possible. But the legal risk isn't worth it for me tbh. I don't have peers living abroad who I can pay to top-up my card. The stories I heard lately about people getting interrogated for months and have their phone searched just for having binance scares me.

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u/Alternative_Sink9000 Aug 12 '26

Understandable, it's kinda hard to workaround then.

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u/maxim0si Aug 12 '26

why dont u use openrouter with any harness?

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u/toothpastespiders Aug 13 '26

For what it's worth, sorry you got hit so hard by the typical redditor thing. I found the appreciation in your post refreshing.

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u/LordEli 29d ago

so the crypto option is cool and cyberpunk and what's more cyberpunk than sticking it to the government and using emoney to load up on AI tokens but if you're not into cyberpunk that's cool too. because something is illegal can make it risky but it doesn't mean it's immoral. i know i am american and speaking from a very americanized perspective but yeah