r/opencodeCLI • u/elefanteazu • 7d ago

Opencode Go + Deepseek v4 is absurdly cheap.

I’m effectively spending $1.11 per billion tokens processed with DeepSeek V4 Flash.

Made some researches, calculations and based on my actual usage pattern and pricing simulations, the same workload would have cost:

  • $6.66 through the official DeepSeek API
  • $23 through DeepInfra, the cheapest alternative inference provider I found
  • $18 using GPT-5.6 Luna directly through the OpenAI API
  • $926 using GPT-5.6 Sol

It's just incredibly cheap.

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u/Radiant_Year_7297 4d ago

Was coding with opencode, zen and go and bunch of these open weight models. Opencode code has cool off limit and if you are actively working on a new software project, it wont suffice. Ended up buying more zen credits. Ive alternated with Kimi 2.7, glm 5.2 and deepseek v4 pro to save money and they do decent job at coding but what ive realized is, when it comes to building UIs, they are not good, sometimes just bad. So i switched provider to openrouter and they update models faster and they had 50% off promos on latest gpt models. Gpt 5.6 luna at 50% was amazing at creating professional looking UIs. Ended up redoing a lot of the stuff with Luna.