By far my favorite model.
At the beginning of the month I realized I had more tokens and more capabilities on Opencode at 8$/month via DS 4.1 flash, than I had on a 200$ account in June with the american providers.
Literally both more tokens and capabilities than Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5.
Even if you pay per token, you're still unlikely to outspend american providers.
I've been telling people this for a couple of months now, I'm actually struggling to use up all my tokens.
But this is a new, different model that just came out.
What does it matter if you’re not hitting your cap with OpenAI/Anthropic in the first place? This thread is apparently populated with the highest of powerusers running multiple OpenClaws. Us peasants aren’t concerned with meters or cost/token - just quality - and nobody comes close to OpenAI or Anthropic in that regard.
Pretty funny to say "us peasants aren't concerned with ... cost/token", as if most people ("peasants") won't find it absolutely insane to be paying $200/mo for a subscription.
Peasants don't pay for the subscription. The employer does.
Corporations pay API rates. Subscriptions are only available to individuals.
Large corporations pay API rates: Claude teams for example can buy subscriptions for its members, until they reach 150 of them after which they need to migrate to org.
How could that be considered insane for a professional tool?
In southern Europe (Italy, Greece) that's well beyond 10% of the average pay.
And southern Europe isn't exactly the poorest region around.