… Safeguards reroute some risky queries to Claude Opus 4.8, triggering in Free on Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise plans until June 23; after that it requires usage credits. …
… That risk is sharper in a home lab because everything is personal and messy. …
… The cost structure is the same shape as OpenCode's, too. Open Design itself is free and Apache 2.0 licensed, and you only pay for the underlying model usage through whichever provider you bring keys for. …
… The hardware to run anything in the 27B-and-up range costs a fair bit, and both VRAM and system RAM are constant constraints made even harder to reconcile given the increasing costs of both over the past year. …
… My peak usage costs $0.62 per kilowatt hour, and I have extensive power monitoring in my home. Trust me, if running a local LLM meaningfully impacted my energy costs, I'd know. …
… If you like it and think it's valuable for you, you can upgrade to a paid plan for more usage. …