r/opencode • u/Smooth-Plan4769 • 1d ago
Is it possible to code a lot with OpenCode Go?
Hello,
Can you do a lot of coding with OpenCode Interpreter these days, or do the model quotas run out quickly? I used to use DeepSeek, but the price went up.
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u/xapep 1d ago
The short answer is you can get a lot done, you just have to make peace with the meter. Every fixed-price plan bakes a quota into what you pay, and OpenCode Go is going to be the same deal as Claude and Codex: fine for a while, then the window bites, usually at the worst possible moment.
The thing that actually decides whether you can code all day is windowed vs usage-based. Usage-based has no reset timer, so there's no 'used 25% of my weekly quota over the weekend and now I'm blocked' surprise. You pay per token, meaning the ceiling is your budget instead of someone else's clock, which for daily heavy use usually works out better than a plan that locks you out for days.
If you liked DeepSeek before the price change, the open-model route is worth another look. Just pick a provider by one question: does it have windows or not. That's the whole game.
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u/chathula 1d ago
Yes. I use Hy3 mainly and gives a good usage. It was free with zen. But now it is not. But still not bad model to code with.
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u/the_man_inTheShack 13h ago
I use big pickle (free atm) most of the time - it recently changed and went totally naff, but it's just about recovered now. I tend to do a lot of grunt work in big pickle and then flip to qwen 3.6 plus (for now) and get it to audit the project. Qwen is dramatically cheaper than any of the american models - I can typically do a full review and fix in qwen for around 50 cents compared to several dollars in the so called 'flagship' models, and as of the last couple of months there's sweet FA difference between them for what I do.
To be fair the last couple of reviews by qwen have not found any major problems, but you have to have a good understanding of the architecture you want for the app and keep it on the rails with any of these models. My most recent app was to manage a NAS using XFS and it did like to duplicate lots of info it could get from the OS and XFS in its own database which is a bloody awful idea, but as long as you give it the right instructions you can steer it away from such absurdities.
*edit* ps I'm using zen rather than go in case that matters
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u/mythormedicine 1d ago
I use the cheapest one Mimo 2.5 . Its crazy but I really like this model, even more than codex-sol. Seriously its probably not the best at coding, but it understands me and is way better at following instructions.
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u/Rough-Ad9850 1d ago edited 14h ago
Just try it, it's only $10. Here use this code to get $5 extra: https://opencode.ai/go?ref=M5KHREHJEV I get $5 too, so it's a win-win. Edit: they upped the price to $10
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u/Fresh_Sock8660 1d ago
glm5.3f as it currently is can get a lot done but nowhere near what the crapload the ds4f at the beginning of August could. To be fair though, the limit then was absurd, I was burning billions of token and barely seeing my usage go up. Once the x2 for glm5.3f is gone though (in a week I think) I'll probably stop using it.