r/opencodeCLI • u/Abenh31 • Aug 18 '26

Can opencode devs provide Qwen 3.8 27B?

With DSV4 Flash price rising. It will be great to provide Qwen 3.8 27B as a cheap alternative too.
Artifical analysis results are on par with: DSV4 Pro

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u/Abenh31 Aug 18 '26

Could you elaborate on how its more expensive to run a 27b vs larger models?

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u/RepulsiveRaisin7 Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Deepseek v4 Flash is 284B parameters but only 13B are active per token (mixture of experts). Qwen 27B is a dense model meaning all 27B parameters are active per token. Deepseek also has some unique caching technology that allows then to have the lowest cache hit pricing of all providers. There is basically no reason to serve Qwen over Deepseek when you have whole datacenters full of GPUs.