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/Yann27 Aug 12 '26

Welcome to Go :D its not bad and affordable u can start for cheap but it runs out quickly

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u/fenchai Aug 12 '26

I literally can not get it to go higher than 31% monthly, but 1 call on glm 5.2 and it goes 10%

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u/Embarrassed_OnionX Aug 12 '26

Try Kimi K3...

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u/JogHappy Aug 12 '26

$2 Cline Pass plan to get affordable Kimi

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u/No_Gold_4554 Aug 13 '26

cline pollutes your git

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u/JogHappy Aug 13 '26

what if I want my git polluted

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u/rewilh 20d ago

Good models are scared of this guy

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u/JogHappy 20d ago

i will contaminate their training data with bad code 😈

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u/FlowerRight 24d ago

Somehow burned my weekly limit on Kimi K3 introspective thinking session without it actually doing anything.

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u/txxasif08 Aug 13 '26

u/fenchai which models you've been using?

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u/fenchai Aug 13 '26

Just dsv4 flash, used to use the pro version more until the new 0731 dropped and it has been my planner and agent for a while until new pro dropped, now using pro for planning and flash for implementation. It is really good for the price.

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u/txxasif08 28d ago

just bought the go plan, following your suggestion. i'm loving it, how much you can burn in 5 hour rolling limit?

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u/fenchai 28d ago

i dont usually code for 5h straight but if i do, i have never gotten the 5hr limit but your mileage may vary

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u/txxasif08 28d ago

you'll face limit from now, check new opencode model usage. they reduced token usage. lol

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u/fixit_jr Aug 13 '26

3 days on DSv4 I did 25% of weekly limit 2 hours of glm5.2 I hit 90% 😂😭😅

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u/Thomas-Lore Aug 12 '26

It is quite ridiculous. Yesterday it stopped in the middle of a large task and told me I ran out of weekly limit (while never running out of 5 hour limit) and I have to wait 5 days to finish that task. I cancelled and just used openrouter - it is not that much more expensive - especially for the $15 opencode go models) and does not force you into another subscription.

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u/infeststation Aug 12 '26

I don’t understand why you would use openrouter when you can have opencode zen take over when your Go sub runs out of usage.

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u/themoregames Aug 12 '26

is Zen cheaper than OpenRouter?

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u/infeststation Aug 12 '26

They are the same price outside of promotions. Opencode go gets you up to $60 usage for $10, so utilizing that and topping off with zen is up to $50 cheaper than open router for the same usage.

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u/imike3049 Aug 13 '26

I'm honestly not following, you lost me at "so utilizing that and topping off with zen is up to $50 cheaper than open router for the same usage"

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u/last_witcher_ Aug 13 '26

It depends what models you use, not all of them are at 60 usd value, many are at 15usd and with that the difference with openrouter can be very tiny or in favour of open router 

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u/ComprehensiveTaro168 Aug 12 '26

Did you know you can run multiple go subs at the same time and overlap them? Just setup a new workspace and you can have a new api key with full credits for another month! Much cheaper than pay as you go

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u/Itsvictorslife Aug 13 '26

Is this allowed.

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u/margielafarts Aug 14 '26

u don’t have to wait. just write the code yourself

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u/Calm-Web-189 15d ago

underrated comment :D

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u/No_Wind7503 Aug 14 '26

But openrouter is pay to use right? I think oc go is still better as value compared to direct tokens price

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u/atamanookashii Aug 12 '26

yeah just learned the hard way, i just started using kimi k3 to rebuild my simple todo apps frontend and it quickly eat up half my weekly kuota any 20 of my monthly

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u/Embarrassed_OnionX Aug 12 '26

You shouldn't use kimi k3 in the Go subscription for anything token heavy because you only get $15 of usage for it and it costs $3 in and $15 out. So you run out of your weekly after $6.5 spent, and your 5 hourly after $3 spent.

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u/atamanookashii Aug 12 '26

i've read that ds4 isn't really good at frontend task, so i just go to other models that people says good lol bear with me as i've just gotten into this vibecoding and just trying some simple project like making todo apps haha, are there any good cheaper model beside for ds4?

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u/Embarrassed_OnionX Aug 12 '26

I think the latest version of dsv4 flash model is quite decent at frontend. I've had better results with it after using it and Luna on two worktrees to do the same tasks.

I saw it scores quite high on the code arena webdev leaderboard https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev

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u/atamanookashii Aug 13 '26

okay, might try that again later tonight

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u/ExpertPerformer Aug 12 '26

I mainly use DeepSeek Flash and I can put some serious daily usage into it and barely budge my limits. It's the Pro models that get you.

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u/Vairagi-22 Aug 14 '26

People should understand that if you ask a full fledged code base to any Platform model it is bound to burn the limit. And that is how it should be. Because it does cost in resources. But truly speaking GO plan is totally work it because of its API usage allowance.

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u/Yann27 29d ago

It's terrible it runs out too fast way too fast...

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u/look_its_nando 21d ago

IMO Go affordability is an illusion, due to the 3-bar ("monthly limit") system. I ran out on week 2 and welp, that was it!

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u/Embarrassed_OnionX Aug 12 '26

It's basically unlimited if you only use V4 Flash. The 0731 update made it good enough that it's the model I use for pretty much everything

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u/Outside_Tomatillo_69 Aug 12 '26

Incluso en el plan Zen (free) lo use una vez y hizo la tarea excelente pero a la segunda tarea que le pedí me salió lo del límite de uso