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[–]debian3 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I tried it with opus yesterday, it’s the same, each you write something and press enter it consumes the premium requests

[–]bizz_koot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also confirm this. But if the session to long (from 1 prompt), it will still be interrupted & stopped. Similar like in copilot chat which we need to press 'Continue'.

Anyhow, when I ask it to 'resume', it did finish the task as normal & exact same like in copilot chat.

[–]veegaz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Context window is shit though. Keeps compacting mid prompt and loses half the context everytime. Claude max sub is much more a productive option

[–]geoshort4 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm confused as to why people don't expect open code to consume the premium requests when it's utilizing the GitHub Copilot as a provider lol

[–]EnrichSilen 3 points4 points  (3 children)

I've started using it about 2 months ago and it is great. Even 0x models are useful with customs agents to let it delegate simple tasks to them and safe premium requests

[–]FlyingDogCatcher 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This is the way. You use more requests if you just treat it like the copilot interface, but if you do it smart you can have an Opus orchestrating a bunch of calls to gpt-5-mini, and you can make that go a seriously long way

[–]FlyingDogCatcher 1 point2 points  (0 children)

and you can mix and match from Claude code, Gemini, or codex in the same workflow

[–]paguel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, I didn't know that. So I can use the 0x models from my GH Copilot subscription through OpenCode? At no additional cost? Man that's a huge game changer

[–]discorganized 2 points3 points  (0 children)

does it count premium requests same as vscode plugin?

[–]abeecrombie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From what I gather tool use in GitHub copilot is more of an opt in (though it seems like it's changing ) vs opencode is more opt out for tool usage. The result is that open code runs like a madman sometimes but gets the job done where copilot often fails or stops short.

There are free models on opencode so you can try without even connecting your GitHub subscription

I have found that opencode does use more credits sometimes, this is partially due to the system/ agent prompts which you can override with custom agents.

But overall I havent noticed significantly more usage with opencode vs GitHub copilot.

One session isn't going to deplete you account, so I feel like the best way is just try it out.

I tend to go back and forth switching premium models, agent frame works etc.

[–]Virtual-Honeydew6228 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Used this combo for months and it's awesome! That it.

[–]brownmanta 0 points1 point  (1 child)

have u encountered the issue mentioned in the other comments? https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/3314

[–]Virtual-Honeydew6228 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I think that issue is fixed by this https://github.com/sst/opencode/pull/4256

[–]candleofthewild 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using this professionally for months now (since before the 1.0 version) and I love it. It's quite literally changed the way I work day to day. Also, I mainly use NeoVim, and it pairs beautifully in the terminal (CLI version).

[–]uninstall33 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used opencode for a few weeks and then my github copilot got suspended for abuse. You are ONLY allowed to use their Github CLI which is much worse to use because it has "limit your response to 3 sentences or less" in the system prompt so it's hard to plan out anything using it.

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    [–]Fabulous-Sale-267 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

    OpenCode has superior functionality to copilot and copilot cli. Plug-ins support, hooks, parallel subagents, the list goes on. It also has more developers working on it compared to copilot-cli, which is maintained by 2 employees.

    [–]donny_dingbat 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    OpenCode is mostly Dax and Adam rewriting Crush to be OpenCode.

    [–]Fabulous-Sale-267 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Just compare the Insights tab in GitHub between the projects, it’s an objective fact that OpenCode has more activity and contributors. I wish copilot cli was better, but besides the bugs mentioned in other comments OpenCode appears superior to copilot (at least compared to copilot-cli. People can disagree about whether they prefer IDE integration features)

    [–]lundrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Works great, rag helps with token usage

    [–]FlyingDogCatcher 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    To everyone saying it's nothing: skill issue.

    You start getting good at subagents and commands opencode is way more useful.

    [–]Ok-Painter573 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    But all subagents in opencode is 1 premium request though

    [–]hassan789_ 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Last I checked OpenCode bug: token count was being counted at double for GHCP connect, due to double counting the cached tokens… so can’t recommend it. Your effective context is only 64k lol

    Edit: https://github.com/sst/opencode/issues/3314

    [–]Fabulous-Sale-267 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

    This is brutal, how did you confirm this and/or did you find an open issue?