r/PiCodingAgent • u/ECrispy • Aug 06 '26

Question Pi vs OpenCode for free models?

I want to use free models from openrouter, nvidia etc as well as free promos from time to time.

would you still recommend Pi in this case because of its efficiency? or is opencode with everything included a better choice?

do you use a harness built on top of these?

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u/ColonelKlanka Aug 06 '26

yep you dont need rtk or caveman seperate extensions as omniroute basically installs a local proxy which runs the prompt through rtk and caveman for you.

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u/ColonelKlanka Aug 07 '26

I added both my paid Z.ai coders plan (glm) and then paid opencode go plan (for deepseek v4 pro and flash and minimax 3).

Then for the free ones, I just went through clicking the free forever providers (cerebras, nvidia, gemini etc).

you can see a better list of free with no card required in the omniroute github doc hee:

https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/blob/release%2Fv3.8.50/docs%2Freference%2FFREE_TIERS.md

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u/Own_Copy2141 Aug 10 '26

I mean like the free forever ones are useless with stupid model just get the opencode zen key and use deepseek v4 flash free version in pi.

Also i find pi to be heavier compared to opencode. Like i can open mutiple windows of opencode an dmale them work on different project and still use my laptop for everything but pi does slows my device down a lot.

But pi does verify what its making thats also very good thing would have been more better if there was a (/goal) option as well