Opencode offers free models with 200/requests over 5 hours. That's why I use it. It is the only reason I care about.
What's the alternative there? Gemini used to have free tiers. Qwen used to. AMP used to. Ollama cloud used to. Codebuff used to... None of them have those programs anymore
The reason I use it is purely financial. I do not have an employer and I'm writing free software
Edit: pi.dev doesn't have free inference endpoints. That's the constraint.
As I said in other reply there's Mimo. But I would check the opencode Go plan. First month for 5 usd and renewal at 10. (With referral offers too). If you use only deepseek flash it would take you a long way every month.
Yes I understood your other comment. I used free models for a long time. Less than 6 months ago there were a ton of options but the current free choices are very limited in number and usability. They run out way too quickly and some of them have smaller context sizes than paid offerings. As far as I know the only currently really free offering is Mimo via their own CLI.
Go is not free at all (you can't use any of the models you listed without a subscription) and the free Zen models will not be on other CLIs as far as I know.
The free OpenCode Zen models (I've only had the need for DeepSeek v4 Flash & MiMo v2.5 for one-time / throw-away tasks) did work, for me, with GitHub Copilot & Reasonix.
What's the alternative there? Gemini used to have free tiers. Qwen used to. AMP used to. Ollama cloud used to. Codebuff used to... None of them have those programs anymore
The reason I use it is purely financial. I do not have an employer and I'm writing free software
Edit: pi.dev doesn't have free inference endpoints. That's the constraint.