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Opencode offers free models with 200/requests over 5 hours. That's why I use it. It is the only reason I care about. What's the alternative there? Gemini used

Opencode offers free models with 200/requests over 5 hours. That's why I use it. It is the only reason I care about. What's the alternative there? Gemini used to have free tiers. Qwen used to. AMP used to. Ollama cloud used to. Codebuff used to... None of them have those programs anymore The reason I use it is purely financial. I do not have an employer and I'm writing free software Edit: pi.dev doesn't have free inference endpoints. That's the constraint.

ernsheong 3mo ago
pi.dev
calumcl 3mo ago
You could easily just use Pi or even a Codex fork to avoid Opencode as a harness and still pay zero dollars.
- kristopolous 3mo ago
  Can't get those generous free quotas from opencode with that.
  - est 3mo ago
    hmm you can. https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models
    - kristopolous 3mo ago
      That's just a models endpoint. They'll just let you use them unauthenticated with any client you wish? I'll go check that but this would be fairly shocking
      - deleted 3mo ago
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      - kristopolous 3mo ago
        I checked. Shocked. Here's the models they allow that with nemotron-3-ultra-free big-pickle north-mini-code-free mimo-v2.5-free deepseek-v4-flash-free hy3-free Alright.
    - dizhn 3mo ago
      Go is not free at all (you can't use any of the models you listed without a subscription) and the free Zen models will not be on other CLIs as far as I know.
      - ignoramous 3mo ago
        The free OpenCode Zen models (I've only had the need for DeepSeek v4 Flash & MiMo v2.5 for one-time / throw-away tasks) did work, for me, with GitHub Copilot & Reasonix.
rafram 3mo ago
There are other OSS agent harnesses.
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- kristopolous 3mo ago
  That offer free inference? I've written my own. I know they exist. I don't offer free inference on large models however
  - rafram 3mo ago
    OpenCode Zen works with Pi, etc. It's totally separate from the OpenCode harness that this article is about.
  - dizhn 3mo ago
    As I said in other reply there's Mimo. But I would check the opencode Go plan. First month for 5 usd and renewal at 10. (With referral offers too). If you use only deepseek flash it would take you a long way every month.
    - kristopolous 3mo ago
      On the Opencode client it's literally 0. I haven't even signed up for an account. It's my daily driver. 0 is a powerful number Again if I can get this somewhere else then I'm game.
      - dizhn 3mo ago
        Yes I understood your other comment. I used free models for a long time. Less than 6 months ago there were a ton of options but the current free choices are very limited in number and usability. They run out way too quickly and some of them have smaller context sizes than paid offerings. As far as I know the only currently really free offering is Mimo via their own CLI.
dizhn 3mo ago
Currently only Mimo has a usable free offer with their own CLI. (opencode clone)

ernsheong 3mo ago

pi.dev

calumcl 3mo ago

You could easily just use Pi or even a Codex fork to avoid Opencode as a harness and still pay zero dollars.

kristopolous 3mo ago
Can't get those generous free quotas from opencode with that.
- est 3mo ago
  hmm you can. https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models
  - kristopolous 3mo ago
    That's just a models endpoint. They'll just let you use them unauthenticated with any client you wish? I'll go check that but this would be fairly shocking
    - deleted 3mo ago
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    - kristopolous 3mo ago
      I checked. Shocked. Here's the models they allow that with nemotron-3-ultra-free big-pickle north-mini-code-free mimo-v2.5-free deepseek-v4-flash-free hy3-free Alright.
  - dizhn 3mo ago
    Go is not free at all (you can't use any of the models you listed without a subscription) and the free Zen models will not be on other CLIs as far as I know.
    - ignoramous 3mo ago
      The free OpenCode Zen models (I've only had the need for DeepSeek v4 Flash & MiMo v2.5 for one-time / throw-away tasks) did work, for me, with GitHub Copilot & Reasonix.

rafram 3mo ago

There are other OSS agent harnesses.

deleted 3mo ago
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kristopolous 3mo ago
That offer free inference? I've written my own. I know they exist. I don't offer free inference on large models however
- rafram 3mo ago
  OpenCode Zen works with Pi, etc. It's totally separate from the OpenCode harness that this article is about.
- dizhn 3mo ago
  As I said in other reply there's Mimo. But I would check the opencode Go plan. First month for 5 usd and renewal at 10. (With referral offers too). If you use only deepseek flash it would take you a long way every month.
  - kristopolous 3mo ago
    On the Opencode client it's literally 0. I haven't even signed up for an account. It's my daily driver. 0 is a powerful number Again if I can get this somewhere else then I'm game.
    - dizhn 3mo ago
      Yes I understood your other comment. I used free models for a long time. Less than 6 months ago there were a ton of options but the current free choices are very limited in number and usability. They run out way too quickly and some of them have smaller context sizes than paid offerings. As far as I know the only currently really free offering is Mimo via their own CLI.

dizhn 3mo ago

Currently only Mimo has a usable free offer with their own CLI. (opencode clone)