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big pickle usage exceeded #15714
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Today i started getting this error message. Was there any communication that the BigPickle from Opencode Zen is not free anymore? i don't mind paying but it is weird not to notify people.
Free usage exceeded, add credits https://opencode.ai/zen [retrying in 10h 37m attempt 1
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github-actions commentedon Mar 2, 2026
This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:
neriousy commentedon Mar 2, 2026
It is free - there's just a rate limit to how free it is
woss commentedon Mar 2, 2026
i tottaly get it but where i can see that limit? it doesn't show in my dashboard. i am logged in
woss commentedon Mar 2, 2026
also i have never seen it before. did something change? i've been going through the changelog.md and couldn't find anything
neriousy commentedon Mar 2, 2026
I don't think there's a UI to show usage limits for the free models, only when you got a subscription.
I believe there have been rate limits for quite some time already, for over a month atleast
woss commentedon Mar 2, 2026
interesting that doesn't show in any of the changelog entries. thanks
Khante commentedon Mar 4, 2026
Getting the same issue. I understand the free models will have some sort of a limit but maybe the error message can be more helpful? Like telling me when the tokens will be replenished countdown or just straight up giving me a local time/ utc time etc.
LeahPeschel commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Same issue here. I increased my balance as suggested in the CLI but I am still getting the same error.
darkpixel commentedon Mar 5, 2026
The bigger issue is paying for it.
I used up the free credits, and I have plenty of money on my account...but I can't seem to use Big Pickle in "paid mode".
neriousy commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Big pickle won't use your credits from your account since it's "free"
To consume your balance use the other models
darkpixel commentedon Mar 5, 2026
Yeah, that's just silly.
"You can't pay for it!"
roboticarmgroup commentedon Mar 25, 2026
VPN seems to be the only solution here. I'm having the same problem with MiMo V2 Pro Free. Amazing model for the price!
I have a balance in my opencode Zen account that I would like to use on this model. It makes no sense to only set it up on a free tier, add a version that isn't free so we don't have to run around usage/rate limits.
Please fix this OC
darkpixel commentedon Mar 25, 2026
After spending a few grand through xen, I stupidly realized I could just go straight to Claude and pay $200/mo for basically unlimited access. It kinda sucks having to transition to ClaudeCode, but it works well enough and seems to do just as good of a job as OpenCode with Big Pickle...just no rate limiting ;)
roboticarmgroup commentedon Mar 26, 2026
I learned my lesson years ago regarding companies rooted in effective altruism, but either way good luck with Anthropic. Fuck letting another company make decisions for me based on what's best in their own views vs their users. If I were you I'd cancel claude (until their drama w/ Anomaly is resolved) and pay $200/mo for Codex/5.4 to continue using Opencode and fall back on free/cheap models for subagent tasks. Idk about you but I have custom workflows that would be a huge pain to move off of opencode - my only option would be to use Pi at this point and it would require too much work to customize their bare bones harness.
darkpixel commentedon Mar 26, 2026
I have zero clue about their drama. I just randomly used models under OpenCode until I found one that did a spectacular job and ran with it.
blainemotsinger commentedon Apr 1, 2026
Anthropic is hostile to other tooling providers.
maikelthedev commentedon May 12, 2026
coming from this, I am LOVING Big Pickle, somehow it works with Godot 4.6 better than Claude, and I'm happy to pay but only as far as I get the very same model with the very same config. What I'm gathering from this thread is that even if I pay I don't get access to it...should I pay and choose another GLM model? It's not exactly clear.
I just want my big pickle!
rekram1-node commentedon Jun 23, 2026
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DominikWidomski commentedon Aug 6, 2026
That's what I've been trying to figure out - is Big Pickle GLM 4.2 and does that work the same then??
LOVE BIG PICKLE!!!
tomsun66-star commentedon Sep 30, 2026
The problem is if you try to find out what the limits are (what is in clear contradiction to "FREE") you don't find ANY information you find a lot of information about the LIMITATIONS of the other "FREE" models but you don't find information about Big Pickle, and it is claimed to work always, it does not work if you use another LIMITED "FREE" models and exceed free usage, but tha Big Pickle is also blocked, intentionally or accidentaly. Othe thing the can throttle the performance of the model down to beeing unusable.. Only solution setup a small local model.