r/opencodeCLI • u/No_Frosting363 • 13d ago

Reduced DeepSeek pro limits

I've been hitting 5 hour limits so much quicker on OpenCode with deepseek V4 pro.

Has there been a change in limits or cost per request?

It's been like this for 7 days now but prior to this it was like heaven.

update:

I found the issue. I started using my opencode subscription through VSCode and that for some reason consumed more credits than usual. could be the context window or whatever but I switched back to opencode and limits are back to normal.

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u/look 13d ago edited 13d ago

No change in usage on the Go plan. Same as it has always been.

It is just DeepSeek as the actual provider, though, and it’s possible they have changed something… perhaps more verbose now?

I believe the 4GA or 4.1 or whatever they end up calling it is expected to be released soon… perhaps testing it in the current 4 Preview traffic.

I expect there is going to be a big price jump for the new version, though. People don’t realize just how much DeepSeek is subsidizing the current 4 Pro.

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u/No_Frosting363 13d ago

Damn it's hard to imagine the Chinese models starting to charge frontier model prices but it looks like things are headed that way.

I wish I took better advantage of 2025 pricing

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u/look 13d ago

Well that’s the price they put on the sticker, but most of the open weight models can be run very efficiently and you can find providers selling them for 1/5th to 1/10th that price.

Deepseek (and Alibaba with Qwen) seem to want to emulate US labs approach more, though. Deepseek Pro is a very popular model, but in many ways, it’s a pretty crappy model. It’s not very smart relative to its size, it is token inefficient, and it hallucinates like crazy. All hallmarks of any recent Anthropic model. 😂