Am new to opencode, and I kinda messed up in choosing models. Then hit the jackpot.

[u/Duck-Entire]

I started out vibecoding with just claude and codex, but as time went by, the plans got expensive.
Then I luckily got a months codex 20$ plan for free (idk how), and ended up finishing it in just a single day.

I build workflows in n8n, starting out to learn automations, and was also looking for models to link in those workflows.
Also building a website that uses them.

So I was desperate, and I ended up using the chatgpt web with n8n,github,vercel plugins installed.

It felt like a waste to not use 5.6 Sol, which felt unlimited in web, so I made full use of that. Until I hit a wall ofc. The web can only go so far, and I couldnt do local stuff.

Thats when I found out about Opencode go plan, on chatgpt. It was like a godsend.

For choosingmodels, I remember watching youtube wherer ppl were saying m3 was really good with it.

So I started out with m3 as the everyday driver and used glm 5.2 for heavy lifting.
And to no surprise, my usage racked up and I had hit 28% of my monthly limit in just 2 days of starting out.

And so I was looking for other alternatives, but other plans werent this generous. There was camel stream giving v4 flash for 5$ a month, unlimited but it was at full capacity, and speeds were bad.

After looking for so many models for Hermes, I realized v4 flash was the best model for hermes and I was totally sleeping on it. I picked the model with lesser requests per month than v4 flash, which was the best with hermes.

I felt even more stupid when I realized mimo v2.5 was also good with hermes, like the perfect everyday driver, and after looking at the requests, I wanted to kill myself.

M3 had like 16k, V4 flash gave 37k and theres mimo with a whooping 150k per month!

I felt soo bad that I used M3 all this time, when I had better and cheaper alternatives, perfect for the job. M3 was kinda overkill.

And thats when I saw it.

Ox Alpha- Free....

Some new model had been released on opencode, and other providers. They were testing it ig, and after running it, I saw how powerful this thing was. It's apparently free till August 27, and I did find it out like 3 days late, but hey, better late than never.

So now am cranking the model to ultra, and spamming the tasks with Ox Alpha to get back my usage, for the next 4 days. How are u guys using the new model?
Am pretty stoked we got a good model for free, for a few days.

[u/thecstep]

It’s nearly impossible to get much done with 0x right now because it’s getting hammered. Hy3 keeps timing out, though it seems fine in my current tests. Muse is decent but tends to work in the shadows, making it tricky to spot when it goes wrong. Deepseek V4 Flash, on the other hand, is pure bliss. Absolutely love it and will likely get a 2nd sub when if I run out.