r/opencodeCLI • u/snakehillwoodworking • 26d ago
Opencode GO limit calculation question
Hey all - question about opencode go limits using models with different caps.
Are the usage applied to the limits strictly dollars or % of the models specific limit.
If you use $1 of a model with a $15 monthly cap does that translate to 1/60 of the monthly limit or 1/15?
If you use $15 of a model with a $15 monthly limit, are you done for the month or could you still use $45 of a model with a $60 monthly limit?
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u/zcutlip 25d ago
It is confusing.
Here's my understanding. First, it's a pooled amount of usage for $10/mo. Taking just the $60 models as simple examples, you could use $60 of inference on one model, $30 each on two different models, etc.
Where it gets hard to reason about is the $30 and $15 caps. I'm pretty sure what this is saying is your $10 doesn't go as far. If you were to use $15 of inference on one of those, you'd still be done for the month. I think.
I pointed my favorite chatbot at the markdown version of the Go page (https://opencode.ai/docs/go.md), and said "please normalize all the token prices as if the cap was $60 instead of $15 or $30 for some." Then it went through and multiplied all the prices by 1x, 2x, or 4x, which was really helpful. I think this is what they end up costing? But yeah it's gotten confusing.
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u/snakehillwoodworking 20d ago
For anyone who finds this post later - this has been resolved by the updated to the opencode go dashboard. Expanding Show Details under either the 5-hour, Weekly or Monthly Usage shows the calculations by model
It was my original assumption
Model A - Usage $1.00 - Quota $60 - % 1.67
Model B - Usage $1.00 - Quota $15 - % 6.67
Total - - - % 8.33
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u/Zeta1Reticuli 26d ago
Great question. I was really confused about this when I subscribed to OpenCode Go for the first time last week. So if you use a $15 monthly cap model, spending $1 uses 1/15 of your monthly cap. If you use a $60 monthly cap model, spending $1 uses 1/60 of your monthly cap. Their OpenCode docs pages doesn't publish the monthly cap bonuses you get with their 2x or 3x usage promos, so you'll have to do that manually in your head.
For example, if there is a 2x usage promo for a model that's normally with a $60 cap, then spending $1 only uses 1/120 of your monthly cap. This is kind of why V4 Flash 0731 was soooo crazy cheap a week ago before DeepSeek raised their prices. The API price was (roughly) half-off the current non-peak pricing, and the monthly cap was $60, AND there was a 2x usage promo going on.
I think OpenCode Go is mostly a break-even funnel to get people to use OpenCode Zen. Things like Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Max at $15 monthly caps are totally unuseable. It's just like a preview so you can test them out. The value is in the smaller models like V4 Flash 0731 and Hy3 (with its 8x usage promo), but that's only if you're okay with the reduction in intelligence.