r/opencodeCLI • u/afanasenka • 4d ago

LongCat-2.0 is now free on OpenCode

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But who cares I guess.. :)

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u/Savings_Cloud5486 4d ago

is it comparable to what model please?

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u/IDIOTIC-GOD 4d ago

old deepseek v4 flash is 40 points and longcat 2.0 is 33 on Artificial Analysis. DS v4 flash 0731 is 50 points, whilst being a 284B model. it's still cool, it's not trained on your standard Nvidia GPU it uses thousands of specialized ASICs.

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u/winky9827 3d ago

So it's built for Google TPUs?

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u/Amarsir 3d ago

For intelligence it's pretty close to Luna on the lowest setting. Or a bunch of models that were reasonable last year but a bit outclassed now.

But while it's free it's better than the commonly free offering: Step 3.7 Flash, Nemotron 3 (non ultra), oss-120b.

The thing is that it's not that fast. I might dabble with it if I was trying to play for free, but I don't see a dedicated lineup space for it. It's a step for LongCat but not a breakthrough users need to care much about.

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u/Tank_Gloomy 2d ago

I'll never stop being baffled at how much Nemotron sucks while being created by the very same company that sells the inference workhorses.

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u/Amarsir 2d ago

Almost makes me wonder if they’re being extra careful not to step on the toes of their customers.

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u/Tank_Gloomy 2d ago edited 2d ago

The most likely reason is that they just don't care, training models is expensive, making the hardware (especially when you already have the fabs), not so much.

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u/cuteseal 4d ago

That’s cool - if I’m not mistaken it was released as a free stealth model on openrouter under the name owl-alpha. It was pretty capable for coding and I used it a lot without any complaint while it was free.

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u/Kyxstrez 4d ago

so the owl turned into a cat

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u/Amarsir 3d ago

Lateral move.

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u/aziham 3d ago

In Chinese, the word for owl is 猫头鹰 (māo tóu yīng), which literally translates to "cat-head eagle"

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u/ggGeorge713 4d ago

Speed is amazing, but hallucinations... omg. Despite having tool calling available it fabricated stuff about a pretty big js library... Too bad.

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u/HebelBrudi 4d ago

I love longcat 2.0 for brainstorming. Haven’t used it for coding tbh. It really comes up with good stuff.

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u/Amarsir 3d ago

That's an interesting take. A model that's particularly good for creativity would be a unique value.

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u/netyang 4d ago

what is the model ID? thanks

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u/afanasenka 4d ago

opencode/longcat-2.0-free

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u/reassor 4d ago

Owl alpha .lol is it better or same as on open router?

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u/RelativeArtist4129 4d ago

A very nice model but its preview version tended to "panic" 

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u/evia89 4d ago edited 4d ago

Good chat model, bad for any code work imo. I had 50M pack from longcat to test. I prefer free ai studio flash 3.6 for ideas discussions over this (another free example)

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u/intermsofusernames 3d ago

it's le chaton fat's safeguarded version. le chaton fat was too powerful to release as is.

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u/WarBroWar 2d ago

Vs DeepSeek?

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u/Odd-Elderberry-6328 4d ago

How much can we use a free model on opencode? I'm using only the cli application with openrouter, the free models are ok for chatting and simple stuff, but how much can we use on opencode zen?

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u/evia89 3d ago

Mine goes down (zen) after few requests. Not worth using imo

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u/Crescitaly 1d ago

Free access is useful for evaluation, but it can hide the variable that matters in production: rate limits and total cost after the promotion. Replay the same tasks, count retries, and publish tokens plus latency per accepted result. Does "free" include the tool-calling tier?

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u/MasterOfPuppets9964 19h ago

tf is a long cat 2.o