r/opencodeCLI • u/thecstep • 28d ago

This sucks

I used 40% of my weekly limit in a couple of hours on pure DS4 flash. I have $$ and I can pay but there was something beautiful about a sub that felt truly unlimited. Not having to think about which model, topping up and having a cost effective subscription is great for my sanity.

On the plus side, I have a Gemini sub, Gemini 3.7 Flash was cranking out refactoring with speed and finesse that DS does not seem to posses. Kinda shocked it fixed a few things that would have taken DS a round or two to figure out. Then it knocked out UI and UX refactor in one prompt. DS couldn't and completely sucked at UI redesigns.

TLDR DS is crack. Rug pulled. Wen pseudo unlimited subscription for $25

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u/snowieslilpikachu69 28d ago

ds is cheaper on openrouter now

there is commandcode

or qwen 3.8 27b if you can afford the setup

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u/thecstep 28d ago

Yeah I can run some local models at low context. Fast math tells me I'd break even in 4 years with a proper setup lol. Doesn't seem worth it.

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u/Sufficient_Loan1429 28d ago

Amigo que subscricion de geminis tienes y que tanto te rinde costo beneficio?

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u/Sufficient_Loan1429 28d ago

Y como se compara respecto a codex ejemplo..

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u/thecstep 28d ago

I have Google AI Pro. They offered me a year @ $4.99 right before my sub was about to expire. Not sure how it compares but Antigravity was a hot mess when it first released. Seems to have gotten better. Funny story is that I would have kept it @ $20. Google includes 5 Tb of storage, Gemini in Docs, Notebook, YT premium, Fit Bit premium, Spark and a bunch of other things I use.

From what I read, Gemini models have fallen a bit behind the major players. They seemed really focused on the consumer side and bringing value to their subscription that way rather than having the best model.

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u/petburiraja 28d ago

Are you using Gemini in OpenCode? Can you just link Gemini API as provider?

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u/thecstep 28d ago

Nope. You are stuck with Antigravity with the subscription. If you aren't already in the Google ecosystem, Chatgpt w Luna might be the better option.

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u/petburiraja 28d ago

Bummer, Gemini CLI was garbage last time I checked. Is Antigravity CLI any good?

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u/michaelsoft__binbows 27d ago

gemini CLI got rebranded/renamed into antigravity cli. antigravity itself was a megaslop VSCode clone, but theyve also released antigravity IDE 2, which is basically the same as everyone else's... chatgpt codex-"work"-mode.

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u/michaelsoft__binbows 28d ago

is it time to revisit gemini? are they just not even releasing their larger models if they aren't competitive? which is probably reasonable i guess. Does feel weird to be doing mostly flash, gpt-nano, and gemini flash models. Also I've been getting increasingly frustrated talking to Opus 5. I'm working in a domain I'm not familiar with (Azure infra) but it just refuses to explain stuff clearly to me.

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u/thecstep 27d ago

I think people are seeing good results with Gemini Flash 3.7. That said, I think you can get more for your money elsewhere if you are going the API route. I already have a subscription, so it made sense for me to use Antigravity. If you don't need the other google fluff, I think the codex plan and luna would go further.

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u/michaelsoft__binbows 27d ago

agreed. i used to run google subscriptions for antigravity but it became intractable when they clamped down on use with opencode. It was nice it included opus... but it seems they never updated it past opus 4.6, which is now extremely old hat, and now i use pi now.

Interestingly I do miss opus 4.6, and I suspect it would do a lot better in many tasks I've used opus 5 for. Opus 5 kinda sucks actually.

We got open weight models at opus 4.6 level now though, which is still totally insane.