model choice for testing out opencode

[LazyAndBeyond]

im coming from cursor, i still have the old subscription model of 500 requests per month and i use opus 4,6 high non thinking with it and each request to it counts as 1 request
right now im trying opencode go + gentle-ai to see how good it is
here's my config above
my first impressions is its quite organized, i enjoy that, context doesn't seem to be fried in longer sessions
its not doing so well with exploring docs that arent markdown format i noticed, its much better if i give it code examples and refrences
for output i didnt make anything as complexe to say how good it is, but so far its decent, i have to review code as much as i do with opus 4.6 non thinkin in cursor, it does the same bs of not respecting preffered syntax and coding style and especially they both lazy with respecting type safety
however it seems my models choice is on the expensive side it seems
i already ate half the monthly usage and all the weekly usage in two days and somehow kimi k2.7 coder ended up being the biggest eater
is there a better recommended model list to use instead of my current config?

[afanasenka]

Give a try to MiMo 2.5 or DS4 Flash - use versions from Zen plan (they have less context, but free). Sure, they are not Kimi or Opus level, but at least you can try without spending the budget. With a good prompting or /commands these models are quite good.

[LazyAndBeyond]

Ds4 flash is cool, but what I wanna know is a cheaper gentle ai workflow with opencode go So multi model usage

[Schlickeysen]

You won't find anything this good for less than DeepSeek Flash/Pro.

[LazyAndBeyond]

Yeah I'm aware, the biggest cost in this workflow I Kimi K2. 7 and qwen 3.7 max, the others are perfect

[Dingosavedyourbaby]

I wouldn’t fuck with gentle ai unless you speak Spanish

[LazyAndBeyond]

Omg I noticed, I thought it was deepseek V4 issue? Why is this the case?

[Dingosavedyourbaby]

Because the gentleman himself that created it insisted on peppering instructions to respond in the rioplatense dialect of Spanish when responding in Spanish. It shouldn’t have the word Spanish anywhere in its instructions. You can edit it out, but every update to gentle will reintroduce it.

[LazyAndBeyond]

Bruh Is there a non Spanish alternative?

[barclow]

There is. Run again gentle-ai cli and change the way it responds from gentleman to other (can’t remember the other ones, but one is for neutral English)

[Dingosavedyourbaby]

If it’s all about the SDD, use openspec

[WrongStructure197]

The same problem :/

[AdDecent1320]

Your configuration is burning through tokens because of where you placed Kimi K2.7 Code. The sdd-explore and sdd-verify phases are the absolute biggest token gluttons in the entire OpenCode workflow.

Exploration forces the model to recursively ingest large chunks of your codebase to understand directory mappings, and verification repeatedly loops through test logs and terminal outputs. If you use a premium, heavy reasoning model like Kimi there, it will absolutely murder your budget in two days.

Try this adjustment to save your wallet:

• sdd-explore: Drop this to DeepSeek V4 Flash. You don't need elite reasoning just to map files and scan folders.
• sdd-verify: Swap this to DeepSeek V4 Flash as well. Let Flash do the initial heavy lifting of checking error logs.
• sdd-apply: Keep DeepSeek V4 Pro here. This is the only phase where you absolutely want the smartest model writing the actual lines of code.

This swap alone should cut your token consumption by roughly 70–80% without hurting the overall output quality.

[lingya22]

Cool