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I believe they are the only western provider that has Kimi K3 on a subscription plan today as well. I would love to ditch Anthropic and be on Kimi if there were a subsidized plan like that with ZDR

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Opencode have it in their subscription

I believe it's one of the models you have to go in to your settings on and enable Chinese providers for to use. Could be mistaken. I wish there was a clear list on this.

If you check https://opencode.ai/go and fold out the what models do you have question you can see a clear list of models included.

i just checked yet again, and i can't see how it satisfies my ask: which models to i have to turn on Chinese providers for or not?

You don’t have to turn anything on to use the providers in that list. They work out of the box.

I'm pretty sick of having to address incorrect points masquerading as being well-informed, helpful, or knowing. Please: stop it! Stop it at once. You are wrong. Stop talking like you know anything, because you have only mislead and provided incomplete or outright bad information. Stop hallucinating into this thread! It's rude and bad.

On the OpenCode Go workspace there is a huge box:

  Providers
  Control which providers are used for routing.

  Enable models hosted in China <toggle-button>

If you turn this off, DeepSeek Flash & Pro both stop working:

  Error: Provider request failed with HTTP 403: The latest version of this model is only available hosted in China and requires explicit opt in: https://opencode.ai/workspace/wrk_msh_is_a_liar_stop_bullshitting_please_be_real_example_url/go

Kimi K3, MiMo V2.5 Pro, MiniMax M3, Qwen3.8 Max all work (remarkably!) without the box ticked! That was a strong surprise for me.

My request stands: I would like to have up-front information on what models only have Chinese providers. This information is not available except by buying a plan and experimenting, currently. And I had to try each one to find out, which I wish could be avoided. I want to end this thread where I started it (now that I have done the work to cut through the din and noise and misinformation), with my original request: please OpenCode Go make the information about which providers have Chinese-only/non-China hosting readily available on your website.

My answer is still correct. You asked if you had to turn on Chinese models to use this. And no you don’t, the models are available by default. If they work when you manually turn off Chinese models is a different question.

The button is off by default, when I signed up ~7 weeks ago! Wrong again.

GitHub Copilot does have Kimi K3.

What’s the multiplier? GH copilot nerfed their product so badly that I unsubscribed.

They don't do request based pricing anymore. Its just token based (1 credit = $0.01) plus some bonus credit based on which plan you subscribe. So for example a $39 plan get $70 of credits.

https://github.com/features/copilot/plans

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-06-kimi-k3-is-now-avai...

Yeah, I know, but "credit" translates differently because the models bill at different rates, which gets turned into "multipliers" (or at least, it did).

Have they converted entirely to transparent API rates + base allocation now? One of the reasons I left was that if I was going to be billed at API rates anyway, I'd just rather use the APIs. The value proposition still sucks for individuals now, when the other major providers are bundling at below-API rates.

Yes, they have transparent api rates. And for Anthropic and OpenAI their rates are exactly like API pricing.

There seems to be something strange going on with how it plays with the GHCP harness: I've experimented on a variety of inputs (code, plain text, literature search), and more than half the time it falls into an infinite text/tool call loop a la GPT-2. Which is a bit spooky as you're still being billed for those infinite loops! But when it works it works, and responses do seem a good deal cheaper than OAI/Anthropic equivalents, so hopefully they'll get it ironed out.

I’d love a subsidized Kimi subscription too. The official Kimi subscription is always out of stock and doesn’t have great limits, while the K3 allotments on OpenCode and Cursor don’t seem to last very long either.

You can apply to join the Kimi subscriptions. I clicked join on the $20/m plan and got in the same day.

Apparently 5x usage when using Kimi Code too.

kimi k3 credits end in just a few sessions. Only Grok models allow generous use in Cursor Pro/+

you can use Kimi K3 on the typed++ model tier: https://typed.cloud

Kimi is expensive . Cursor with subscription is cheaper , grok 4.5 per task paid per tokens ( no subs ) is also cheaper .

If you willing to share to no zdr, meta is waaaaaay cheaper vs Kimi.

With recent offerings from spacex and meta , I hardly imagine why would you pay money to any Chinese vendor it’s not as cheap and it’s not as intelligent neither .

Maybe deepseek is an exception , but it’s only good for narrow use cases that probably goes into modal.com and other gpu + fine tune me easy vendors , not vanilla dumb but cheap model .

GabAI has KimiK3

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