[kristopolous]

Opencode offers free models with 200/requests over 5 hours. That's why I use it. It is the only reason I care about.

What's the alternative there? Gemini used to have free tiers. Qwen used to. AMP used to. Ollama cloud used to. Codebuff used to... None of them have those programs anymore

The reason I use it is purely financial. I do not have an employer and I'm writing free software

Edit: pi.dev doesn't have free inference endpoints. That's the constraint.

[rafram]

There are other OSS agent harnesses.

[kristopolous]

That offer free inference?

I've written my own. I know they exist.

I don't offer free inference on large models however

[rafram]

OpenCode Zen works with Pi, etc. It's totally separate from the OpenCode harness that this article is about.

[dizhn]

As I said in other reply there's Mimo. But I would check the opencode Go plan. First month for 5 usd and renewal at 10. (With referral offers too). If you use only deepseek flash it would take you a long way every month.

[kristopolous]

On the Opencode client it's literally 0. I haven't even signed up for an account. It's my daily driver. 0 is a powerful number

Again if I can get this somewhere else then I'm game.

[dizhn]

Yes I understood your other comment. I used free models for a long time. Less than 6 months ago there were a ton of options but the current free choices are very limited in number and usability. They run out way too quickly and some of them have smaller context sizes than paid offerings. As far as I know the only currently really free offering is Mimo via their own CLI.

[calumcl]

You could easily just use Pi or even a Codex fork to avoid Opencode as a harness and still pay zero dollars.

[kristopolous]

Can't get those generous free quotas from opencode with that.

[est]

hmm you can.

https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/models

https://opencode.ai/zen/go/v1/models

[dizhn]

Go is not free at all (you can't use any of the models you listed without a subscription) and the free Zen models will not be on other CLIs as far as I know.

[ignoramous]

The free OpenCode Zen models (I've only had the need for DeepSeek v4 Flash & MiMo v2.5 for one-time / throw-away tasks) did work, for me, with GitHub Copilot & Reasonix.

[kristopolous]

That's just a models endpoint. They'll just let you use them unauthenticated with any client you wish?

I'll go check that but this would be fairly shocking

[kristopolous]

I checked. Shocked. Here's the models they allow that with

nemotron-3-ultra-free big-pickle north-mini-code-free mimo-v2.5-free deepseek-v4-flash-free hy3-free

Alright.

[dizhn]

Currently only Mimo has a usable free offer with their own CLI. (opencode clone)

[ernsheong]

pi.dev