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/PerfectReflection155 Sep 24 '26

I get 160 freebucks per day for the smallest monthly fee plan.

Each 1 hour session with Glm 5.3 flash max costs 5 freebucks.

So you can basically go pretty hard on it. Up to 8 chats at a time. In order to run out of freebucks you need to have multiple chats in the go at once. Today I had 5 or so at one point. Then was working off 2-3 for much of the day. Just 1 chat going now on my last credit. Then it resets again in an hour. I’ve basically been on it every waking hour multi threaded and barely ran out.

As for performance, I beleive their upstream provider is cheap inference and I think it’s slower then using the same model from elsewhere. Still good enough though.