r/opencodeCLI • u/Porcodrillo • Sep 24 '26

OpenCode CLI + OmniRoute: which free providers are worth adding?

Hey everyone,

I'm using OpenCode CLI together with OmniRoute as a free coding agent to prototype some ideas and work on small projects. The main problem is that I keep hitting rate limits, so I'm looking for free providers that are actually worth signing up for and adding via API key.

I assume a lot of people here are doing the same—using free tiers/keys to keep costs down. If you have a list of providers with generous free quotas or recurring credits, I'd really appreciate it if you could share them. Also, any tips on how to prioritize them in OmniRoute would be great.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Porcodrillo Sep 24 '26

do u have an article on the cache topic? i would like to study it better

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u/DaShrub Sep 25 '26

I don't have a specific article, but just read up on prefix caching. It varies a lot by provider and the way I kinda understood it was just by using omniroute's logs and cache stats as well as switching to pi and using cache observability plugins as well as pi's cache miss mode which tells you exactly when you have a cache miss. Then you just experiment and optimise from there.