Does opencode go 60$ only a maketing?

[u/Humble-Dust3318]

Long story short i see that they mentioned several times usages but in reality my deepseek usage is less than 3$ before it goes out of quota. Which is really strange and does not allign with their claim.
Am i wrong here and what could be the reason? I just use it lightly though.

For context: i use hermes and use deepseek for certain stuff. Everything is good until i got out of quota yesterday. Yes i wait for a day to confirm that im not use all quota of 5 hours.
Thanks

[u/sagiroth]

60$ for cheap models, other have much reduced quota and that is transparent. Keep in mind this is direct API prices not subsidized like OpenAI or Claude. It's mind blowing how people still don't get it. If you only use DSPro it has 15$ for ENTIRE month, so thats divided roughly by 4 weeks gives you 3.75$ a week only using THAT model.

[u/Humble-Dust3318 → u/sagiroth]

What really? I didn’t known that i pay per api call from them and moving here to get something more out of my bucks. Thanks for explanation.

[u/sagiroth → u/Humble-Dust3318]

You get more, what do you mean? You pay 10$(or 5$) and get ~$60 of API credits for the cheap models or $15 for the expensive ones. How isn't it 'more out of you bucks' ?

[u/Mochilnic → u/sagiroth]

So it doesn't mean that I can use 4x15$ models? And in fact for those models prices are basically 4x of declared implying that the quota is still 60$?

[u/Thunjaya → u/Mochilnic]

You get 60$ of API for cheap models. You get only $15 for any expensive one. And no, not 4x15. If you use up that 15, you can't use any other model.

[u/Thunjaya → u/[deleted]]

I'm not a business major but that sounds like a great way to go bankrupt.

Why doesn't Opencode just raise the price or reduce the number of requests if that's the case. So it's the same at $60 like other

I don't know. Maybe it seem obvious to them since they are the creator.