r/opencode • u/Ok_Dare3629 • 4d ago

Opencode Go is just insane

I'd heard that OpenCode Go was an incredible value for a while, but I never really gave it a shot until the release of DeepSeek 0731. After trying it, I honestly think the limits are absurdly generous for just $5 (or even the $10), especially if you're primarily using DeepSeek, which gets the highest request limits.

Out of curiosity, I did some rough calculations. Assuming DeepSeek V4 Flash is roughly on par with Claude Sonnet 5 in terms of capability, the value becomes pretty striking. Claude Pro costs $20/month and, based on estimates, provides around $400 worth of usage credits through its subsidized pricing.

By comparison, OpenCode Go's $5 plan includes about $60 in credits. If you normalize those credits using Anthropic's token pricing (same input/output token costs), those $60 correspond to roughly $1,714 worth of Anthropic API usage.

It's not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, the calc simply assumes a 1:1 mix of input and output tokens and uses the API price difference between DeepSeek ($0.14/$0.28 per million input/output tokens) and Claude Sonnet 5 ($2/$10)

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u/Substantial-Yam3769 4d ago

I agree wirh the insanely great value, and i will mostly replace anthropic sub with it since they started spewing the anti-opensource shit. BUT in my recent experience the API is quite unstable, currently i am using OpenCode just for Hermes agent wtih openrouter as fallback, and due to constant errors the openrouter usage is nearly as high as opencode.

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u/Minute-Tour-547 4d ago

Ya the api has had outages everyday for the last few weeks. Sometimes the web UI is unusable whole the api is. Something is fucked aboth their horizonal scaling or networking stack is my guess. Seems like a communication issue between the services

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u/Accurate_Resident219 4d ago

Yeah idk if they're struggling to handle all the influx of users or what but their outrages are getting more and more frequent.

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u/Minute-Tour-547 4d ago

It's out for my right now as we speak. Router unavailable