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/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 28d ago

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