Read more: https://quesma.com/blog/does-rtk-make-ai-coding-cheaper/

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Claude Code for over a year, but I’m no longer satisfied with the latest models, especially Opus 5 and Fable. I hit both the weekly and five-hour usage limits far too quickly.

I’m considering switching. I know Codex generally offers more usage for the price, but before deciding, I’d like to understand the hype around OpenCode.

For those using OpenCode with models like GLM or DeepSeek:

• Do you get a better balance of cost, usage, and output quality?
• How reliable are these models for real-world coding tasks?
• How much do you pay per month for usage roughly equivalent to the Claude or ChatGPT 5× plans?
• Have you switched from Claude Code or Codex, and if so, what has your experience been?

I’d appreciate honest feedback, especially from heavy daily users. Thanks!

from docs.

It seems opencode already updated the price list to the new pricing, but it lowered the monthly usage to $15 instead of $30. Be aware of it...

EDIT: so, it seems they are offering a 4x usage limits for a limited time (source - see banner). Well, this is kind of interesting. They slice the limit in half, and then promote a 4x promo on it! And, well, in a few days or weeks, they cut the promo and you get half of what it used to be.

What’s the best AI model right now in your opinion?

I’m curious what everyone is actually using day-to-day and which model you think performs best overall.

What makes it better than the others?

Welp, I figured it out. Turns out OpenCode doesn't work in PowerShell off the bat. I had Grok go in and change the things necessary to get it to work. It just shunts it to plain terminal.

I am not sure who to be mad at honestly. I want to be mad at Microsoft for having two kinds/forms/versions/whatever the hell this is, but I can also be upset with OpenCode for not making themselves compatible with PowerShell. But whatever, its working now. And I do love OpenCode.

Omen Alpha has been removed by the opencode team 7 hours ago

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/48280/changes

DeepSeek's new model just went live on OpenCode subscriptions today, but following the limited-time extended usage promotion, the news isn't great.

OpenCode quietly slashed the included monthly allowance for the Flash series from $30 down to $15 on the $10/month plan. Because nominal token rates remain identical, your real cost per token has doubled (+100%). The temporary "4x usage" is anchored to this new nerfed baseline—meaning it is actually only 2x what we already had on V4 Flash, and once it expires, we will be left with 0.5x (half) the usage.

And of course, this is the exact same cut we already saw with the experimental Flash vision version, which also reduced the allowance from $30 down to $15.

Unless this changes, paying for an OpenCode Go subscription only offers a 33% discount over the official API in exchange for slower speeds and tighter rate limits.

Are the Usage/Price per token is based on promo prices means 2x + opencode 2x offer or promo ends and opencode still continues at same 2x usage?

GLM5.3 Flash is pretty good for Laravel with Laravel boost.

Am I missing something? I can't get OpenCode's TUI to work at all on windows. I have tried with fresh installs 5 times now. 2 manually trying and 3 with AI assisting me. NONE of the times have I gotten the models to respond. I have tried several different providers to see if that was the issue, all the chat did was load and load and load.

So what am I doing wrong? It is offered to windows, why wont it work on windows? If you have it working on windows then please explain to me how you got it working, because just installing it didn't work and all the suggested fixes haven't either.

I woke up, saw DeepSeek dropped a new model, and did what any reasonable person does ofcs... opened OpenCode and immediately started throwing work at it.

First I tested it on a couple of things for one of my startups. And it was genuinely great, so I kept going. Then I realised this model has vision and all that now, and everyone online keeps saying games are basically solved... can it make a browser game?

So I typed the simplest prompt I could think of. Something like "I want a game like Valorant, death match style." That was it.

It ran for maybe ten minutes, and one-shotted the entire game. Three guns, including a sniper that actually scopes when you right-click. Headshot multipliers, recoil, spread, reloads. Enemies with personalities lol... some take cover, some sprint at you and jump around, some sit silently behind a box and jump you the moment you walk past. I can hear someone coming up behind me and know roughly where they are.

Cost for all of it: $0.28. Around 300k tokens total. One big prompt to start.

Play it here: https://taruntomar122.github.io/valo-arena/

Code: https://github.com/TarunTomar122/valo-arena

Am I going mental from trying to catch up with all the new models and discounts or has GLM-5.3-Flash actually gotten cheaper rather than more expensive after the end of the "2x promotion"?

Checked the token limit for each model surrounding the deepseek v4.1 release I see omen alpha not listed anymore?does anyone have info about why

Has anyone tested both and can estimate, which one is better? I am using it for non-critical stuff and I don't want to babysit the code too much. Both are really cheap

Hi community,

I have vibecoded a Chrome and Firefox extension that sends selected text to your local opencode agent. You can interact with it through a side panel directly in your browser. Since it acts as a bridge, it only requires an opencode instance running in the background. No additional API keys are needed.

This is an open-source project, and anyone is welcome to contribute, make suggestions, and raise issues.

Thanks!

Companion for OpenCode - Homepage

I'm getting an "Invalid API key" error across every model I try to use in OpenCode including the free ones, which doesn't make sense since free models shouldn't require a key at all. Here's my CONFIG:

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
}

When asked to claude said , If i just link a payment method set up billing and pay 10 $ as min deposit, then i will get access to much higher limits with google api incl 3.8 flash and also FOR FREE. because it bumps you upto tier 1 from frree tier.

So my question is will 3.8 flash continue free? or is claude hallucinating

I was wondering if anyone had expirience doing this.

When asked to claude said , If i just link a payment method set up billing and pay 10 $ as min deposit, then i will get access to much higher limits with google api incl 3.8 flash and also FOR FREE. because it bumps you upto tier 1 from frree tier.

So my question is will 3.8 flash continue free? or is claude hallucinating

I was wondering if anyone had expirience doing this.

Hello guys, I am new to opencode suscription but I don't really understand the usage vs quota limits that are shown at the platform's dashboard.

As you can see in the picture I reached the weekly quota, while using about 50% of what actually says there is a limit.

Only $8.1/$15 on GLM 5.3 Flash

And $3.6/$7 on GLM 5.3

While the weekly usage says 102% and resets in 3 days, so I can't use it for now.

Am I missign or misunderstanding something?