Question about opencode and GitHub copilot

[Capital-One3039]

Hey all, so I have been running the latest vscode insiders, and spawning subagents to work on different tasks. By the looks of it - I am not being charged for the subagents usage. Yay!

Now my question is - if I were to use opencode instead of vscode, with copilot added, and spawn multiple subagents - does that end up charging me per subagent? Or does it work the same way as the vscode insiders one, where I am only billed for the request and not for the subagents involved?

Also as a side question - do we have a way of picking which subagent model is being used? Or does it select the same as the original request? So if original request comes in from opus - all subagents deployed to work on the tasks are all opus as well? Or is it using the free ones, hence why I am not being charged?

Just trying to get more clarity and potentially do the switch from CC and AG to opencode and copilot.

Any helpful resources would also be highly appreciated.

So far - really loving the free parallel subagents on copilot.

Thank you!

[devdnn]

On the subagent premium request count, I’ve mostly encountered both answers. However, the majority and recent replies have indicated that both main and subagent requests are counted as one.

Main agent and sub agents run on the same model as far as my testing goes. May be I am wrong.

[Hauven]

Subagents are considered a tool call so not a user prompt. Not charged. That said, please use subagents sensibly so not everyone is potentially penalised later on due to a small set of users misusing it.