After 1 year and 10 tools built with OpenCode, my free limit now lasts about an hour

Description and use

A developer using OpenCode for a year now finds the free plan credits deplete in under an hour, despite unchanged workflow and project size.

Problem

Free plan credits are depleted in under an hour despite unchanged usage patterns.

Outcome

User experiences rapid depletion of free credits, limiting project development.

Workflow

• Use OpenCode free plan
• Build large complex projects with frontier models (DeepSeek‑V4.1 Flash, GLM‑5.3 Flash, Mimo‑v2.6 Flash)
• Run on i3 4th gen with 8GB RAM

Evidence

I have been using OpenCode for about a year. When I started, the available models were things like big pickle, mimo v2.5 and some other weak models.

Source

For the last week or so, I hit the limit very fast. I am using it the same way as before, same project size, same workflow, but now it runs out in under an hour.

Source

Right now I am on the free plan and I use frontier models, mostly DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash or Mimo-v2.6 Flash.

Source