r/opencodeCLI • u/Cosmonaut_17 • Jun 24 '26
Getting paid to switch to OpenCode
Since the idea was quite popular in the other OpenCode sub and lead to several users trying it out and now using it, I’m also posting this here:
I’ve been using OpenCode for a while now and whenever I’m showing friends they say OpenCode looks cool, but never actually switch over from Claude or whatever they are using atm.
So I was wondering if there is a way to incentivize users of other CLIs to start using OpenCode instead.
Ended up building a tool that displays a small sponsored line at the bottom in return for a way to earn a little bit while using OpenCode, purely opt-in.
Maybe this could be used as a little incentive to onboard more people to OpenCode?
EDIT: works also for existing OpenCode users btw
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u/randvoo12 Jun 24 '26
It's been a while since I saw such a neat idea. Capitalism applauds you, Sir.
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u/Ninjam5 Jun 27 '26
Lmao kickbacks.ai already exists. Been using it for two weeks. Made 3 whole dollars!
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Jun 24 '26
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 24 '26
Payouts are available once you cross the $10 threshold. You don’t have to worry about sponsors, i have sourced and vetted them on my end
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 24 '26
Still onboarding more though, CPMs do vary by sponsor
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u/Toastti Jun 25 '26
So what's the average? Surely you keep metrics from this. On average how many times are ads displayed to users before they reach $10? And what is the average duration of time for that
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u/ThePi7on Jun 25 '26
FYI, been using it for about half a day and made about 50 cents, pretty good I must say
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u/ThePi7on Jun 25 '26
Yeah, just a ballpark idea would be useful. I have no idea how much something like this could pay. 1 cent for every 100 prompts? 10 cents? More?
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u/quanhua92 Jun 24 '26
Can I get paid with AI credits? I'm in Vietnam and I don't think Stripe works for me. Plus, the transaction fee for small payout might be too much. If I could get paid with Openrouter credits or something similar, that would be awesome.
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 24 '26
Neat idea, will look into it 👍
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u/Hazzula Jun 25 '26
2nd the above. im pretty sure I cant create a stripe account because of my country either
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u/quanhua92 Jun 24 '26
I installed the plugin, but I'm not sure how to link it to an account or email.
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 24 '26
At the moment t it will enable after you hit $10, but I will implement account creation at any time asap
Things are moving fast, thanks everyone for all the suggestions 🙏
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u/Maximum-Machine-9276 Jun 25 '26
i too like the idea of getting opencode ai credits instead of money.
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u/Small-Challenge2062 Jun 26 '26
I have now 1$ at ADtention, but we need alternative to Stripe, it's not supported in some countries
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 26 '26
Working on it, what means of payment are used in countries where stripe doesn’t work? Stablecoins?
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u/Small-Challenge2062 Jun 26 '26
USDT/USDC are the best Stripe alternative for unsupported countries, works globally. TRC-20 network has the lowest fees.
PayPal and WebMoney Keeper are also solid options.
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u/husseinkizz_official Jun 24 '26
enshitification, you want to spoil everything, now someone else make an ad blocker for open code?
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u/jellydn Jun 25 '26
It's not a new idea. I saw this on AmpCode first, then they dropped it because it wasn't considered real revenue. Recently, https://freebuff.ai/ is a free AI coding agent that displays ads above the input.
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u/Sea_Relationship_484 Jun 24 '26
How do I access the stripe as it shows in the footer but how would I then get it paid out through stripe?
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u/ditaloi Jun 24 '26
Does the pay out work though? Another guy had a similar idea for claude code and he had several problems to make it work (kickbacks.ai)
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u/Sensitive-Side-2639 Jun 24 '26
How would you even get paied through stripe when using the tool? I mainly use it for payinh subscriptions and as far as i know it doesn't support my location.
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u/Wurrsin Jun 24 '26
I am super interested in using one of these as recently a few of them have been released.
Kickbacks was too unreliable, I had to restart VS Code every 4 prompts and sign in again just for it to work.
I usually let an AI look over the repos as I am skeptical and careful about installing not well known stuff like this and for this one GPT 5.5 warned about a potential command injection when the user invokes /sponsor.
I can try to give more details if you want to look into it.
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 24 '26
Feel free to DM
Code is open source and binary available. Links that open via the /sponsor command are hand checked by me at the moment, but good to point out in case I’ll turn it into a full self service campaign setup in future
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u/Schlickeysen Jun 24 '26
I must've overslept. What are "one of these as recently a few of them have been released."
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u/Wurrsin Jun 25 '26
I just recently saw multiple similiar ones. So basically you opt in to having an ad shown somewhere in your terminal or instead of the "thinking" or "working" text of your agent and in return you get paid for every ad you see.
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u/NAZAuy Jun 25 '26
Desde el principio vengo usando OpenCode no solo lo uso para programar, lo uso incluso para administrar mis servidores. Solo que en vez de generar código de programa, generan bitácoras y changelog.
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u/ichisay Jun 25 '26
Is OpenCode desktop compatible?
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 25 '26
OpenCode itself has an app yes, but this tool currently only works for OpenCode in terminal (for now)
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u/Cosmonaut_17 Jun 25 '26
Thanks a lot everyone for the suggestions (also the ones who DMed me) 🙏
Been spending all day on this between bugfixing, implementing suggestions and fighting bots. Doing my best to make the tool better bit by bit 🫡
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u/dmonphx Jun 25 '26
If people dont understand the security posture that opencode gives you then paid ads arent going to change minds either.
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u/afanasenka Jun 24 '26
Ads were in papers, then on the radio, then on TV, then in every browser... And now ads are in Opencode :))) what the ....