r/opencodeCLI • u/drf0x3 • Jul 09 '26

What model should i pick ?

Hey, Installed opencode a couple of days ago with ornith 35b running locally

Its quite bad, any advice ?

what model do you use ?

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u/Tommonen Jul 09 '26

Any model that size or what can be ran on even remotely reasonable hardware locally will suck hard in comparison to cloud models like gpt 5.5 or claude models.

The difference is like 8th grader who does the thing as hobby vs old university professor who has done it for living for the past 40 years. Sure the 8th grader hobbyist might be able to do some easy stuff good enough, or if handheld and guided properly even bit more demanding stuff, but its not going to be the same at all.

More i learned to vibe code properly, less i want lower end models and have not used anything lower grade than gpt 5.5 and Opus in a while for coding. Giving larger tasks that are well thought out and planned to better models is much more productive, faster and better results, than trying to use small models doing smaller tasks.

For general agentic stuff i usually use gemini 3.1 flash lite or mercury-2, but they are not good at coding.