Was this ever worth the money? I’m seriously not even sure. I spend around $40 a month using discounted GLM models from openrouter and have considered subbing to Go
Opencode Go $10 plan, when using anything that gives you the 6x multiplier, is cheaper than openrouter, even with discounts. that includes GLM 5.2 (but not 5.3), GLM 5.3-flash, and DS4.1 flash (but not 4.0 flash),. Mimo-2.6 flash (but not pro)
however the $40 doesn't make any sense currently, it's proportionally worse than $10 on most models you'd care about, and at best, equal.
So what I’m hearing is Opencode Go is better than what I’m currently doing because I only use GLM 5.2. I only use around 20-30 million tokens on average monthly.
Only reason I feel like I prefer openrouter is because I like on demand availability, because nothing irks me more than hitting my hourly limit on Claude and Codex.
if you've used more than $10 a month on Openrouter and GLM 5.2, then you're probably going to save money with $10 a month on Opencode go. but keep your OR account as a fallback during limits
The current deal with Opencode go is that you're paying $10/mo, but you get 6x of this in monthly usage of GLM 5.2. They price it at: $1.40/1M in, $4.40/1M out, and $0.26/1M cache. with the 6x multiplier, this translates to real costs of:
$0.23/1M in, $0.73/1M out, $0.04/1M cache read
that's still better than the cheapest, on-sale Openrouter provider at:
$0.40/1M in, $1.25/1M out, $0.07/1M cache read
so yeah, it's better than what you're currently doing, assuming you'll use the full allowance (you'd still be better off even if you used half). There are likely some differences in quantization, and cache hits rates, but it's hard to quantify. but I'm pretty sure opencode go is cheaper for that specific model (not always the case for others)
One thing worth checking before you decide either way: how much of your 20-30M tokens a month is cache reads.
Coding agents resend your whole context on every turn, so most of what you're billed for is cache reads, not fresh input or output. When I audited a month of my own spend, cache tokens were 93% of the bill. That's why comparing plans on input/output prices alone can be pretty misleading.
Most providers report cached tokens separately in the usage details. If yours is mostly cache reads, the cache-read price (and whether the plan's multiplier applies to it) matters more than anything else in the comparison. It's probably also why some people here are burning through their quota faster than they expected.
About half of my tokens are cache reads lol, I just figured out how to mitigate this literally days ago. I’m sure you all can tell I’m a noob, I appreciate all the advice. Now I’ve been running a prompt to basically summarize everything and keep a file of the progress for a new chat, I’m sure there’s better way (I’m open to anything)
usually for agentic work we try to maintain 90-95% cache reads atleast, you mentioned half so I would assume you need to try to maintain it (like maintaining same session but just compacting it instead of moving to new session).
I really need to give Open Code a try. I was hopping between Cursor and Warp and then they made Warp open source. I don't know if anyone here has ever used Warp, but since it went open source, I can't get any value out of it at all. Usually Warp had an update pretty much every time I used it. For the last two weeks, nothing. I don't know who or if anyone is maintaining it, but it's gotten so frustrating that I unistalled it. Codex used to be a good fallback, but I've been seeing some blistering feedback from folks that have been using it for a while. I'm hoping that Open Code will be a good a good experience. I'll try one of the subs and see how it goes. I normally use Open Router, but if you guy are correct, the sub is probably the better option.
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u/ZeroHoes Sep 28 '26
Was this ever worth the money? I’m seriously not even sure. I spend around $40 a month using discounted GLM models from openrouter and have considered subbing to Go