Token pricing and payment fees
OpenCode Zen is pay as you go, with no subscription. OpenCode sells tokens at cost and passes card fees through at 4.4% + $0.30 per transaction (Zen pricing), so the default $20 top-up costs $21.23. You get 1× usage per dollar, minus about 6% in fees.
DevPass includes 2× its price in usage each month, with no fee on top. Per-token rates differ where LLM Gateway can route to a cheaper or discounted provider:
| Per 1M tokens, input / output | DevPass (lowest listed) | OpenCode Zen |
|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.07 / $0.20 | $0.15 / $0.50 |
| GLM-5.3 | $0.82 / $2.77 | $1.40 / $4.40 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | $0.12 / $0.47 | $0.30 / $1.20 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro | $0.435 / $0.87 | $1.74 / $3.48 |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.08 / $0.32 | $0.30 / $1.20 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.75 / $3.75 | $1.50 / $7.50 |
| Kimi K3 | $2.80 / $14.13 | $3.00 / $15.00 |
| Qwen3.8 Max | $1.60 / $4.80 | $2.00 / $6.00 |
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4.00 / $20.00 | $4.00 / $20.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 / $10.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 |
Zen keeps each model on providers it has benchmarked rather than routing to the cheapest. LLM Gateway routes on price, uptime and speed, so a request can land above the lowest listed rate; check the live coding catalog.
When each one costs less
- Zen costs less if your month stays under roughly $27 of usage at Zen rates. It also has about a dozen free models for a limited time.
- DevPass Lite ($29 for $58) costs less above that, and the gap widens on open models where DevPass rates are lower. At GLM-5.3 rates, Lite’s allowance buys about as many tokens as $95 spent on Zen.
Controls and privacy
Zen provides monthly workspace and member spending limits, auto-reload (by default $20 when your balance drops below $5) and BYOK support. Auto-reload can charge you past a spend limit, so configure both. Its retention policy has model-specific exceptions, including some upstream providers and free models; read the current Zen documentation.
DevPass pricing and limits
DevPass costs $29/month for Lite, $79 for Pro, or $179 for Max, for one developer. Each plan includes 2× its price in monthly usage ($58, $158, $358), with daily caps (8%, 9%, 10% of the monthly allowance), premium weekly caps (10%, 12%, 15%) and Reset Passes at $5, $15 and $45. Optional pay-as-you-go overflow costs extra. See plan details.
For the three-way breakdown with OpenCode Go, read DevPass vs OpenCode Go vs OpenCode Zen.