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OpenCode Cheepseek Phase 4: $100 of DeepSeek Usage on the $10 Go Plan
The larger DeepSeek allowance is useful, but five-hour limits and the way tokens consume it still determine how much work you can run.
OpenCode announced Operation Cheepseek Phase 4 on October 30, offering $100 of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage. Its $10-a-month Go plan now lists that monthly model allowance. This is a subscription usage allocation, not a cash credit you can withdraw or spend with another provider.
The official announcement is brief. The useful detail sits in the plan's limits: the monthly headline does not mean you can consume the entire allowance in one coding session.
OpenCode Go pricing and DeepSeek allowance
The Go pricing page lists these individual plans:
| Plan | Subscription price | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash monthly usage |
|---|---|---|
| Go | $10 per month | $100 |
| Go Plus | $40 per month | $200 |
Go is optional. It supplies models for OpenCode and other coding agents; it is separate from Zen's pay-as-you-go service. The subscription also includes other models with their own allowances, rather than one interchangeable pool to spend however you like.
For someone mainly interested in DeepSeek, the comparison is straightforward: Go Plus costs four times as much as Go but provides twice the listed DeepSeek allowance. Its value depends on whether the higher limits and the rest of its model lineup are useful for your workload.
The five-hour limit still matters
OpenCode's usage documentation caps each model at 20% of its monthly allowance per five hours and 50% per week. For Go's $100 DeepSeek allocation, that works out to $20 per five-hour window and $50 per week.
Those are usage values, not guaranteed numbers of completed coding tasks. Context size, output length and cached tokens affect how quickly the allowance is consumed. A larger monthly number does not remove the short-window cap.
The documentation's request estimates assume a particular mix of input, cached input and output tokens. They should not be read as a promise that every repository or agent loop will produce the same request count.
What to check before using DeepSeek through Go
DeepSeek access requires allowing Global under the workspace's region settings. That is worth checking before treating the model as interchangeable with an endpoint constrained to Europe or the United States.
Go also expects coding-agent traffic and a stable conversation session identifier. Extra Usage can charge the separate pay-as-you-go balance after the subscription limit is reached if enabled. Check that setting before assuming a subscription always stops spending at its included allowance.
The pricing page lists DeepSeek's zero-data-retention agreement as valid through October 31, 2026, with monthly renewal. Teams relying on that condition should verify the renewal rather than assume the published end date is indefinite.
Compare completed work, not the advertised multiple
The practical attraction is a low entry price for sustained coding work. But the useful comparison with another plan is how much reviewed, accepted work fits inside the limits, not the ratio between the subscription price and the allowance's dollar label.
A representative task can reveal whether the bottleneck is model quality, context growth or the five-hour window. That is the information needed to decide whether a larger subscription would actually help.
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