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- Appreciate the heads-up. Even if some of this is overblown, the transparency thing is a legit concern. Gonna double-check my config before I touch OpenCode again
- Rippling had a writeup on this. 40% of R&D payroll going to tokens, one engineer at $50k/month. They got it down 37% just by routing cheap stuff to cheap models, no usage cut.by dhchun1203
- Fellow readers, would anyone please mind sharing their current experiences? qwen3.6-35b-a3b for local inference, GitHub Copilot Chat was previously worth it, and no longer is, tried OpenRouter and still read through their rankings to see what the industry is actively using, wholesale migrated to OpenCode Zen/Go.
Does this mirror what other people have been experiencing in waves?
by bellowsgulch - That's only true if the value of keeping your data and code private is zero. And in that case, Anthropic and OpenAI subscription plans may be even cheaper per day.by pu_pe
- I'd really rather just pay Deepseek directly. Why wouldn't I want to support the company that trained the model?
It isn't even really worth the (minimal) ops to stand up rented MI300Xs to sell excess capacity to them even if it was minimally profitable, when I tried I was content to give API keys to friends to beat on it.
- The reason to run local models is not for coding mostly it's for learning how to deploy models and tinker with self hosting. It's also for massively crunching data 24/7. Imaging having an agent analyzing constinous log streams etc .. that could be a usescse where even deepseek could add up cost.by perarneng
- That's almost half way to their stated 6X usage goal! Just from DeepSeek.
> With Go, you pay $10/month and we aim to give you 6x that in usage.
For most models, we make this work through bulk discounts and reserved GPU capacity. We then pass those savings on to you through the 6x multiplier.
https://opencode.ai/docs/go/#why-some-models-have-lower-usag...
I think it's back to 2X usage, meaning it's cheaper token-burn than usual to use. Which is lovely.
OpenCode Go has been so nice to have. I love having access to DeepSeek, Qwen and MiniMax M3 when doing design work, to see what different models cook up. I've been very surprised with MiniMax M3, not as a particularly good architect, but at it's very good ability to state the problem elegantly & to frame the different decision points very well. That's been a fun ongoing surprise.
- Beware of the author of tweet, who happens to be author of OpenCode - OpenCode will leak all your data to themselves and to shady 3rd parties. Author feigned ignorance and never fixed the issue. OpenCode among other harnesses is the shadiest of all.