u/blackburn1911

I wanted to try and disappeared from the /go page

Hey, made a noob mistake on OpenCode.

Switched from DeepSeek V4 Flash to V4 Pro with /models while redesigning a simple HTML page, and ended up burning ~15% of my rolling usage because of the huge context window (~834k tokens).

Flash isn’t great for UI/design work, but Pro is way better — just way more expensive than I expected.

I’ve also used Big Pickle before and it actually did a decent job for UI stuff.

Now I’m trying to figure out what models make sense for Go/Zen plans if you’re doing frontend work without burning through usage too fast.

Any recommendations for a good balance between cost and coding/UI quality?

Also Kimi K2.5 was great but more expensive compared with V4 Flash.