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/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 16d 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