Developer seeks free model alternatives after losing free DeepSeek access in Pi editor
nirurin · reddit · 2026-11-14
A developer asks for advice: they previously relied on opencode's daily free Deepseek 4.1 allowance to test larger models, running a local Qwen-Flash-Next Q4 otherwise. After switching to the Pi editor, they can no longer access those free models and haven't found another free DeepSeek provider. They list candidate free models — Nemotron 3 series, multiple Qwen3.5/3.8 sizes, GPT-OSS 120B/20B, Mistral Small 3.2, Llama 3.3 70B and more — asking which are worth folding into their workflow, notably weighing full Qwen 3.8 (268K context) against their local Q4 Flash-Next.
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