September's hottest model is one that doesn't speak.
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Jev's model is free on Vercel until Sept 25.
Worth grabbing now if you've been meaning to try it. Not that it costs much anyway.

Speed wins. The free models in opencode are working again.
Someone actually had it fixed the same night and opened a PR. Then the 9router author pushed an update. No clue whether he merged the PR or rewrote it by hand, but opencode free works fine on the new version. OpenCode's free models only talk to their official client now. 9router's fix is fingerprint spoofing.

Three $10 plans compared.
Last post I mentioned broker sites for flagship models, where you can get pricing down to about a tenth of list. Still too rich for subagents or anything you run all day. For normal use, unless you're doing development or research, I keep landing on the ~30 tier of Artificial Analysis: deepseek-v4.1-flash. Step up to ~40, which is Kimi K3.1 Pro, and the price goes 10x. For DS itself, these three subscriptions are the cheapest route today. OpenDesign Go says $120 of usage, OpenCode Go and Command Code GOAT say $100. Those aren't the same number though. OpenDesign's $120 is one pool shared by 12 models, with a $10 cap per 5 hours. The other two give DS its own allowance and $20 per 5 hours.

SpaceX quietly trimmed Grok Bot's usage limits this weekend.
A lot of users woke up to find their weekly quota had shot from about 50% to a flat 100%, and they hadn't even touched it. Musk confirmed on X it wasn't a glitch. His words: serving Grok Bot "was unsustainably high relative to revenue." So the thing really does cost a fortune to run. That said, I'm seeing the limits roll back to the earlier version. Yesterday it showed 50% used; today I'm at 30%.
