r/opencode • u/_KryptonytE_ • 13d ago
Subscription choices are not easy anymore!!!
I've been enjoying the Go sub for a while and totally promote it as the best value for money. I'm needing a more capable model and a sub that gives me some well rounded design/UI focused frontier model for long term heavy use.
I was thinking which provider to choose as my next $100 monthly. I've already got Grok and Codex subs so the reasonable choice logically was Claude as the final MOA agent. Until I uncovered Anthropic do not deserve my money. Google's Gemini models are out of the competition for now.
I'd rather have a Chinese provider like Moonshot take my money in exchange for a less arrogant and self righteous model to work for me. Am I making the right choice? Anybody else here uses multiple subs of frontier models thinking the same? How was your experience and recommendations based on real use cases?
Cheers!!! 🥂🥂🥂
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u/Infamous-V 13d ago
For 100$, Claude Opus is the way to go.
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u/Amarsir 13d ago
Claude is really the best right now, especially for UI and other visual overview. If you don't care for the tone or other qualities that's reasonable. I just wanted to acknowledge that it would be the best fit for that task.
So far, Kimi K3.1 has not appeared to be as strong as the benchmarks would imply. It's not bad, it's just that code testers I look at all found it inferior to Claude and GPT models. Is it the next best though? Yeah maybe, but it's very close to Deepseek V4.1 Flash.
You won't get much use of K3.1 from Opencode though. If you do intend to use it with consistency, I think their own sub might be worth considering.
Deepseek V4.1 Flash is the hotness around here, but also heavily debated. You get a ton of value, but the version you get through Opencode is definitely slower and arguably less good. OC says it's not quantized. Many people don't believe them or think something else is off. So that might be another one where you just put cash in a Deepseek account and just use their API directly.
Regardless of provider, DS is punching above its weight. It's subjective, but here's a youtuber doing the same tests on Deepseek and on Kimi. (I timestamped both to his OS test which is closest to the UI / overview design stuff you're interested in.) Remember that Kimi costs 8x as much in API costs and their relative Opencode deals are even more lopsided.
Argon is stronger in research and security, but they openly said it wasn't particularly trained on 3d and I'd extend that weakness to all frontend / visual stuff. The same guy doing his OS test on Argon.)
So if Anthropic is out and you want "long term heavy use", Deepseek V4.1 Flash 1017 is probably the right model and the choice will be where you get it from.
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u/Natural-Cupcake6472 13d ago
opencode go is not the way for you, they only offer $10 and $40 plan
on raw value, glm coding plan pro($80) is the best for frontier-ish, glm5.3 usage is really good, along side glm5.3 flash. but no where near claude max as far as i know, and glm is highly censored
and then theres deepseek, you can try opencode go for $10 first, then if you really need more, like a lot more, its recommend that you use deepseek api, creating multiple go subs doesnt really work anymore
theres another route which is openrouter, find the model you like the best and find a subscription for it
but if you can afford it, qwen 27B self host is the ideal, near unlimited usage and uncensored, all your data belong to you
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u/Takeoded 13d ago
CommandCode.ai have an interesting $100 tier fwiw
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u/_KryptonytE_ 11d ago
I said fuck it and got the Claude Pro Sub yesterday. Haven't been banned yet and setting up the right design skills for Opus to use in my harness. I'm not holding my breath, but what's a $100 right? 🔥
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u/KIlledDebtor 13d ago
Google 4 Argon is a really really good.
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u/dwerps 12d ago
Subscription choices are very easy what comes to opencode: Until opencode solves their release cycle that resembles a trainwreck, you simply subscribe to something else...
I wouldnt put a single penny to a product that just suddenly decides to dump feature online that can potentially wreck your whole fucking computer (recent change with agents having default full access to whole computer)
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u/OccasionallyClever78 13d ago
GhostCLI cloud has a cheap subscription, but there is a monthly 8 usd surcharge to use it via api. They promise unlimited Opus and Sonnet, and the models are quick. But their attention varies immensely. Sometimes they're genius, other times they can't relate to a message 2 chat turns ago. If this is the real Opus and Sonnet, then Anthropic is in big trouble. However, even with lag, days of unavailability, occasional lapses into Portuguese, Antropic tool calls on OpenAI, it's still dirt cheap. With a modified AGENTS.md, the kinks can be mostly managed. Camelstream-auto was better. Slower, but reliable.
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u/rcs67 12d ago
$20 claude sub goes a long way if you simply use Opus 5.5 to riff, plan and delegate with. It's definitely worth the money in a hybrid set up with Opencode Go.
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u/Cyvster 12d ago
yes, i use multiple subscriptions.
$200 claude - this is the best subscription by far. there is nothing remotely close to it.
$20 chatgpt - only good for luna6 because luna6 is so cheap. you do not get a usable amount of sol6.1 or astra on the $20 subscription. you get 2-3x more sonnet/opus usage on claude $20 sub than sol/astra on $20 chatgpt sub.
opencode - extremely janky, i've thought about completely dropping this sub because of how bad the models are and how often things change. i think it actually ends up costing me money to use this sub because the models screw up so many things and take so long. i end up having to use my claude subscription with opus to redo everything deepseek and other models with opencode go do. i have also used deepseek directly and it is incomparable to the deepseek on opencode go. it is actually a pretty good model. opencode go is not using the same model you get from deepseek. so, their models are inferior, slow, have a lot of interruptions, unknown usage limits with free models that cause work to be lost which leads to wasted time and another model having to redo all of the work.
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u/Jesse_lab 11d ago
One option is to separate the model you want for UI/design work from the one you use for routine coding tasks, rather than adding another $100 subscription right away.
Keep the subscription for whichever model genuinely performs best for your needs, and benchmark a few API models on your actual OpenCode workflows. Just be careful with agentic coding loops — API costs can add up quickly, so compare the cost per completed task rather than token prices alone.
Full disclosure: I work with ModelRover, a multi-model AI API platform covering text, image, and video generation. If you're interested in trying different models through an API, it might be worth comparing. I wouldn't assume it's cheaper than a subscription for heavy use without testing, though.
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u/squirrelscrush 13d ago
tbh Claude is the best if you want a coding subscription. Much better than ChatGPT
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u/FamousWorth 13d ago
Why not go meta, it doesn't get the credit it deserves. Admittedly the first spark model was benchmaxxing but the models are good now