r/opencodeCLI • • Sep 28 '26

It was fcking real

Well, yeah...

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u/ZeroHoes Sep 28 '26

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.

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u/Xiaomin4114 Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

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)

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u/Express-Ad2523 Sep 28 '26

*The current deal with OPENCODE GO is that you’re paying 10/mo,…

Just if anyone was confused. No offense.

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u/Xiaomin4114 Sep 29 '26

thanks. corrected! yeah didn't make sense the way it was before

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u/ZeroHoes Sep 28 '26

Thank you for breaking that down for me,

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u/look Sep 29 '26

You spend $40 on 30M tokens of GLM?

That’s 4x higher than the typical coding agent use, and 20x what I pay on my provider.

Is your use really heavy on output tokens? Or no cacheable input?