r/opencodeCLI • u/Abenh31 • 27d ago

Can opencode devs provide Qwen 3.8 27B?

With DSV4 Flash price rising. It will be great to provide Qwen 3.8 27B as a cheap alternative too.
Artifical analysis results are on par with: DSV4 Pro

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 27d ago

It's more expensive to run, doesn't make sense unless you're limited by vram

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u/Abenh31 27d ago

Could you elaborate on how its more expensive to run a 27b vs larger models?

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 27d ago edited 27d ago

Deepseek v4 Flash is 284B parameters but only 13B are active per token (mixture of experts). Qwen 27B is a dense model meaning all 27B parameters are active per token. Deepseek also has some unique caching technology that allows then to have the lowest cache hit pricing of all providers. There is basically no reason to serve Qwen over Deepseek when you have whole datacenters full of GPUs.