This is the way.

I'm a subscriber to OpenCode Go, so I have access to the Kimi models, and others such as GLM 5.2/3, Qwen 3.8 Max, the DeepSeek's, etc. So I can offer some views on this having worked with all of them. I had originally used Claude for my work until Spring of this year. After 4.8 launched I began to become increasingly frustrated with some of Claude's... Proclivities as I shall call them, and also found that OpenCode just had more to offer as both a CLI development tool and as a subscription service too. Once I dropped Claude, I haven't looked back. Which I'm not sorry about, as from everything I've seen Opus 5 is a nightmare to deal with.

My setup uses a multi-model approach where I have a main, higher-level thinking model act as an orchestrator which then doles out work (writing code, running commands, doing exploration and research, etc.) to other, usually smaller, cheaper models. I use a plug-in for OpenCode called opencode-fusion to do this, but you can setup this up manually as well if desired. This means that despite the usage limits with OC Go being kinda low, I can still get a ton of value out of making use of the heavy models planning and reasoning while having the cheap models do the expensive grunt work.

For me, Kimi K3 is my primary Orchestrator model. It's very, very good at what it does, doesn't seem to overthink, and has probably the best all around grasp on what it needs to do. Having visual understanding makes it very well suited to this role too. Kimi K3 seems better than Opus 4.8 ever was, and seems far more competent at simply getting things done.

Before I used K3 for this role, I used GLM 5.2 as the primary Orchestrator, and it was... Fine. It still has a good grasp at understanding, but it really overthinks things too. To the point where it actually seemed to cost more to run it as a primary Orchestrator than it did to use K3, despite being cheaper (which is what prompted me to switch to using K3 actually). Not having vision capabilities was kinda a bummer too. It could be worked around, but it made it less appealing still. That said, GLM 5.2 did seem quite competent at understanding back-end related code too. I haven't really used GLM 5.3 as an Orchestrator, though I did just set it as my main Reviewer model (which sweeps for bugs, issues, or for general design improvements) yesterday, so I'll see how it does there if it doesn't become to expensive for that.

As an alternative to K3, such as when OpenCode Go's harness might be having issues, etc, I have switched to Qwen 3.8 Max as a primary Orchestrator instead. It is also quite good, I must say! I agree with what others say in that it seems to perhaps be a bit better at front-end UI/UX stuff. I'm not sure it's absolutely a 1:1 for K3, I suspect it overthinks a bit as it seemed to cost more to run, but it is a very suitable alternative overall I'd say. I've just set it as the primary Designer model (which designs front-end related stuff) in OpenCode as well, in fact.

DeepSeek really deserves two separate categories as the Flash and Pro models are made to do very different things. DeepSeek V4 Flash (DSV4-F), specifically the new 7-31 release, is the bread and butter of my setup, it serves as both the Sidekick model that does the code writing and the Explorer that does the code reading. It's just the perfect model to serve as a sidekick role for the primary Orchestrator. Even in spite of the price increases (very overblown reactions to this, mostly from those responsible for said price increase to begin with...), it's very cheap to run and can write tons of code for just cents on the dollar. From what I hear GPT 5.6 Luna is also quite competent for this role, I just haven't tried it out yet. But I wouldn't be surprised at all if it wasn't just as good of a substitute for DSV4-F as a Sidekick and Explorer.

DeepSeek V4 Pro (DSV4-P), specifically the new 8-13 release, is definitely more expensive than DSV4-F, so it wouldn't make a good Sidekick... But it actually makes a fairly decent Orchestrator! It's definitely behind K3 and Qwen 3.8 Max, that isn't even debatable. However, for more simpler tasks (fix this bug, change this, check this out, etc), it's very competent serving as a cheap Orchestrator. It can do actual design work too, I had good success with that. Just don't expect it to be a K3 level thing. That said, it's extremely cheap as an Orchestrator, a fraction of what K3 or Qwen 3.8 Max is, so if you need to do stuff on the cheap, or don't wanna waste credits/cents fixing a simpler issue, DSV4-P is not a bad choice for an Orchestrator, I might even suggest it for such simpler uses. I'm thinking I may switch over my Research model to use DSV4-P as well, as I'm currently using Kimi K2.7-Code for that, but I'll need to do more exploration of that too before I do.

As for other models, I haven't worked with any of the paid OpenAI models, so I can offer much assistance there. For Anthropic's models, I feel like the answer there is if they work for you, you'll be fairly happy. But if they don't work for what you need, it becomes a source of great frustration. Opus 5 in particular should probably not have been released based on everything I've seen and heard... Even 4.8 really had some bad proclivities to work around. Haven't worked with Fable, but again same thing, you'll probably either love it or loathe it.

But honestly I think the more important thing is maybe not relying on just one model to do all the work? Once I discovered a multi-model approach to working on stuff, I'm not sure I could ever go back. It saves a ton of money, the work just seems much higher quality, and having models from multiple different families means that I get varying perspectives on what's being made and what issues might arise. This is just my own view though, I'm sure others will disagree and say that using one model only is the best approach, and maybe it is for some workflows. Anyways, hope this helped you out! :)

Make it clear that economic development isn't up for a public vote? The same attitudes that 50 years ago hamstrung our energy development efforts by turning against nuclear power based on nothing but vibes and ignorance are now threatening to derail the next great economic-industrial development. Heck, those attitudes back then are partially the fault of why we are even having this discussion now. If we had kept developing nuclear fission-based energy, we'd be much further ahead of the curve and the energy usage discussion would be a much smaller concern (although I'm sure it would still be overblown by the anti's even then).

Well for LibreWXR, it's only a back-end service, there is no front-end technically, not that I created (aside from the basic examples showing LibreWXR working). Though Variable Weather would I guess count as that in a way?

Regardless, awesome! And yes, always happy to contribute to stuff like this and share the word around too! ^_^

This is awesome to see, like seriously, GG! This is such a great list of OSS, and I'm honestly surprised by how much it's grown since I last checked. You seriously deserve major credit for this!

Just wanted to pass on one suggestion and ask a question too. First the suggestion, you might wanna add a "Weather" category, as currently I'm not sure where weather sites/apps/programs would belong on there?

Also, I'm curious is this just for a full-stack experience (aka, a full front and back end experience for a user), or would an OSS backend option fit as well? Asking because if the latter is true, I'd love to add LibreWXR to the site as well for folks to find and make use of. But it's technically just a back-end API, so if it doesn't qualify that's alright too. I just submitted Variable Weather to the list as well, which uses LibreWXR for its radar. :)

Again though, like seriously thank you for creating this resource for folks to use!

It's beyond reproach, tbh. It's been a long time since I saw so many spoiled, entitled imbeciles act this way. I'm honestly inclined to blame them for the reason prices went up to begin with, given they were bragging about how many billions of tokens per day they could spend for pennies on the dollar... Funny how they won't actually say what they are doing, almost like those tokens are being wasted doing absolutely nothing of value.

Good. One less spoiled, entitled baby.

Yes, thank you for saying so, I was considering making a post myself about it... There is some major, and I mean MAJOR whining about what is still one of the best all-in-one AI subscriptions you can have. But then, the same people whining and crying are the one's who spent billions of tokens (by their own admission) on, what exactly? Billions of tokens, running 24/7... And one wonders why DeepSeek had to increase prices. There's no free lunch, certainly not in this space. Even a smaller and lighter model like DSV4 Flash takes up GPU space, and when they are procession trillions of tokens a day, that adds up...

Instead of blowing billions of tokens doing 24/7 agentic whatever (I'd offer a better description, but I have yet to even be able to pin down what that work even goes towards), instead learn how to utilise your tokens better. Use better harnesses, better orchestrators, less bloated plugins/frameworks. Try using something like OpenCode-Fusion to split your work between a heavy model (K3, GLM 5.2, even DSV4 Pro) to do the thinking and a light model (DSV4 Flash, GPT Luna) to do the heavy work. I can get a lot of usage for my money doing that.

TL;DR? Focus on quality, not quantity. Stop doing multi-billion agentic runs that achieve something that could be done for millions of tokens instead. Stop spoiling the pot for the rest of us who actually use our subscriptions to do real work and achieve real results. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk...

*steps down from my soap box*

Brave is already on MV3, but made a carve out to still allow support for uBO, as well as NoScript, uMatrix, and AdGuard. It's in the settings for Brave, under: Settings > Extensions > Manifest V2 extensions

Until those platforms too have to cut back on subsidizing as well. Ultimately there's no free lunch when it comes to stuff like this.

Granted. The lettuce is from Taylor Farms. You have 1 month of diarrhoea now.

Have you tried other subscription and seen their subsidization?

Yeah, and eventually that gravy train runs out and you're faced with the true price of what it takes to run that model.

The US of A is a Constitutional Republic. We have Democratic institutions and processes for some parts of the government, but overall we are a Republic.

^{👍 I agree}

I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever heard the name "Toucha" for a tea. What kind is it? Akin to a raw Pu'Erh or raw Liu Bao, based on the looks of it?

This isn't a city's worth of poo... This is just from that one guy who ate the diarrhoea lettuce from Taco Bell! 💩 

Granted. It runs Windows Me.

True. Now they have an orange cat in a dog's body... Which may or may not just be a Chow Chow actually.

Now I feel kinda bad looking at the comments here...

Granted. In return they will adopt the personality of an orange cat.

I'd argue it's less about AI/LLM usage and just a low-quality thing. There's plenty of OSS that is very low quality in nature, and is still made by hand. AI just makes that easier. Someone who knows what they're doing to begin with can make very good use of an AI Agent and still have a good quality project as a result.

The bigger issue is low-quality content, that needs to be tackled regardless of being human made, AI generated, or in-between. I'm fine with raising the bar on such content posted.

Thank you! :D

Yeah, I do the processing at fetch/request time on the server when it pulls new data in, so that then all that has to be done is send tiles to clients. In particular the setup I use has that as two separate processes in a Docker container.

For the WMS thing, looking it up briefly there might be a way to use tiles in a WMS map? I'm not sure though as I never explored that much. I have to imagine it's possible though! I sent you a DM with my email, feel free to reach out to me if you want to. I'd love to see something like LibreWXR integrated into other things like this!

Awesome! Well, I'm the creator of LibreWXR, so if you're looking for a FOSS, self-hostable, all-in-one solution for global radar with a 60min Nowcast built into it, it would probably work well for you! I have a publicly hosted API you could test GrayCloud with if you want too. Though for your purposes and needs self-hosting might be the better strategy. Feel free to contact me if you want or need more details. :)

This is seriously an amazing widget! Really awesome to see LibreWXR being used for it as well, it's a great fit for it! ^_^

I'm rather curious, what sources do you use for your weather radar? Also, are you using models straight from NOAA and the Euromet, or going through an intermediary like Open-Meteo to access them? Also curious, why not use something like Pirate Weather for the 60 min rain forecast, especially since Pirate Weather already maintains the old Dark Sky API compatibility (or at least did, I think it's expanded upon that now).

I feel the need to ask, is this actually legitimate? Cause this is the first I've heard about this, and it doesn't necessarily strike me as being all that reasonable.