I used 28 different OpenCode models last month
I didn't renew my Claude Max subscription after it ended last month, and decided to use OpenCode for some time. And it's been more than ~15 days of using OpenCode models, and I've missed Claude models only a few times.
From OpenCode's usage tab, I have used 28 different models last month, as you see in the screenshot.
Among all the models you see in the screenshot, only a few stood out.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731): Love this model for simpler tasks like doing some research from multiple different sources and creating interactive HTML pages for better visualization, fixing quick UI bugs, etc. It's very fast and mostly accurate for these tasks.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813): This model is great for a lot of tasks, and I have used this for fixing some serious bugs on SharePDF, building websites, brainstorming, etc.
- GLM 5.3 Flash: Been using this model a lot since it came, and it's a great one for UI and research. The only issue is that it's very slow in OpenCode Go, so I use it for low-priority tasks, and sometimes I even keep it running overnight.
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: While I use an extension in Pi that uses another model for vision, I found this model to be great at browser automation tasks. I used it a lot via the Orca app for automating stuff in my browser, and it's good and fast too.
- Mimo v2.5: Sometimes I use this model for really simple, low-priority tasks, and it's good at that. But don't use it for anything else.
Apart from these, most models you see in the chart above are only for trying and testing. I'm mostly using these 5 models via my OpenCode Go subscription.
Most of the time I use these in the Pi coding agent via my new Herdr + Ghostty setup, but sometimes also using Pi inside the Orca app for browser use tasks. I'm rarely using OpenCode models inside the OpenCode harness actually.
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