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OpenCode Go is currently running a 4x usage promo on DeepSeek v4.1 flash, not a bad way to get your feet wet (even if their cache hit prices are probably still very sub-optimal)

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For small projects and hobby-programming, OpenCode Go is great, and its model performance is quite strong in my experience. Every time it's mentioned, there are people loudly claiming that it has terrible, quantized models, though this is never backed with data. I'm suspicious that this is being propagated by those whose financial interests are harmed by the existence of a cheap and decent coding subscription.

I wouldn't trust OpenCode Go with my lunch after the shit-sandwich they served us with horrible V4 quants and 0 transparency. Then blaming it on their partners.

a month of opencode go is cheaper than lunch, so trusting them with this but not your lunch seems reasonable.

I'm an OpenCode Zen user and I picked it over Go because opencode actually hosts those models and can make assurances about how the data is handled. OpenCode Go is a subsidized service that sends all of your data out to third-party providers, and then your data is subject to whatever terms they have.

Zen has worked great for me.

Hit me up if anyone wants extra $5 free usage with my referral code

Never tried OpenCode Go so I am interested. How does their pricing compare to paying DeepSeek directly, by the way?

They have flat fees, so it's the best deal around by far. Basically for $5 first month then $10/mo after that. If you're doing tons of heavy work, it struggles because they throttle the model inference and for good reason. I mean it's cheap! But if you want a place to try models for nearly nothing and aren't doing 6 sessions in parallel it works fine.

Yeah, I’ve rarely seen throttling unless fanning out to a ton of agents

I'm sorry if I'm wrong, but this feels like two robots talking to eachother, lol

beep boop? lol. Dead internet theory in real time?

How many tokens are you getting, roughly?

Supposed to get $60 worth.

For deepseek-v4-flash: a shitton of tokens for $5.

They've recently added a ton of detail to the pricing page, but you'll have to calculate out tokens/month from that: https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#usage-limits

Last time I tried this service they served me lobotomized models with horrible latency and high error rate

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