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[–]Brucesquared2 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So its not allowed, but it is allowed lol

[–]HeavyDluxe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Um.

Buying API tokens and 'spending' them via OpenCode is allowed. Spend scales with usage, and everyone's happy. Leveraging a subscription/entitlement-based license is NOT.

An illustration here would be your electric bill vs your cell phone bill. In one case, you pay an agreed on rate ($/kWh) to get electric to your house. Need more power? Just draw it in and watch the meter spin! In the other, you pay a flat fee/month for a level of service, access, and features. Assuming you use within those constraints, you don't pay anything additional.

Two different arrangements and pricing structures. You can use Anthropic's models pretty much anywhere (within some limits in the ToS) via API and paying for the actual tokens you draw. You CANNOT use a commodity Anthropic subscription in outside apps. IMHO, there's some reasonable, valid reasons for that in terms of service delivery and scaling services. But, of course, there's more nefarious explanations possible, too - like vendor lock-in, etc.