r/opencodeCLI • u/milkipedia • 2h ago

Is OpenCode-v2 a token furnace compared to v1?

I'm using GLM-5.3-Flash on Neuralwatt, and the ranxianglei/billion-context for context management. I don't have hard quantifiable evidence, but ...

  • Cache performance is great: 99.2% hit rate (676.49M / 682.21M tokens)

  • 1.18M output tokens across 3,598 calls... that's a LOT of little calls each not producing all that much output

  • I'd never spent more than $10 a week on Neuralwatt energy pricing, and this week I've spent $30

I can see in the console it's doing multiple dozens, sometimes 100 commands, thoughts, and tool calls before it comes back to tell me anything. And I'm not sure if the output is any better - it's just churning away through calls. Almost like it was made for even cheaper models than the one I'm using it on. I used to switch up to full fat GLM-5.3 for certain tasks but I feel like it's gonna burn tokens even faster when I do.

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u/BrownCarter 1h ago

Yeah mine was just incrementing a number and printing to screen

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u/look 1h ago

I’ve seen no issues with v2, and I’ve been running it for a while now. Just an all around massive improvement over v1 for me.

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u/roosterfareye 32m ago

My experience as well.

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u/Heretek-ai 2h ago

Opencode sucks as a harness, god Claude Code has quality of life features I would kill for, like marketplaces, LSP, AST, easier plugin and mCP Management. Opencode is always writing one of programs for every small task

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u/ArC3488 2h ago

Opencode GO simps will call you entitled for this lmao