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

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Can't get those generous free quotas from opencode with that.

hmm you can.

https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models

https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models

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

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.

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.

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.

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