The $10 Open-Model Coding Plan in October 2026: Three Real Options, Six Near Misses, and the Math

Data graphic: a dot plot of selected open-model coding plans by monthly price in October 2026. OpenCode Go, Chutes Plus and Command Code GOAT which adds a processing fee sell a flat $10 plan, while the others run from $18 Z.ai GLM Lite to $50 Alibaba Qwen Pro , and MiniMax Plus at $22 is closed.

Alex Kim
Threat intelligence editor · Published Oct 3, 2026, 4:59 PM EDT

Only OpenCode Go, Chutes Plus and Command Code GOAT list a flat $10 tier. Every vendor price and cap here was read on its own page on 2026-10-04.

Every price and limit below was read on the vendor's own page on 2026-10-04. Figures marked "computed" are our arithmetic, with the formula shown. Anything we could not confirm on a primary source is marked UNVERIFIED and left out of the comparison.

Three vendors sell a flat $10 monthly plan that reaches open-weight coding models: OpenCode Go, Chutes Plus and Command Code GOAT. Z.ai, Xiaomi, Ollama, Kimi, MiniMax and Alibaba sell nothing at $10. Their cheapest current tier sits below ($6 MiMo Lite) or above it ($16 to $50), and MiniMax and Alibaba have closed their old entry tiers. DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Fireworks, Together and Cerebras sell no flat plan at all.

Summary table

Plan	Monthly price	Cap model	Open-weight models named by the vendor	Checked
OpenCode Go	$10	Dollar caps: 20% per 5h, 50% per week of a per-model monthly limit	GLM, Kimi, MiMo, MiniMax, Qwen, DeepSeek, Hy, LongCat	2026-10-04
Chutes Plus	$10	Daily request quota (number UNVERIFIED)	GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen	2026-10-04
Command Code GOAT	$10 + processing fee	$70 monthly credits, ~75K requests	GLM-5.2, Qwen 3.8 27B, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, plus 30 more	2026-10-04
Xiaomi MiMo Lite	$6	60M credits, no 5-hour limit	MiMo	2026-10-04
Z.ai GLM Lite	$18	2,000 credits per 5h, 10,000 per week	GLM-5.3, GLM-5.3-Flash	2026-10-04
Kimi Moderato	$19	Shared credit pool, 60 agent credits	Kimi K3	2026-10-04
Ollama Pro	$20	$60 usage credits	Many	2026-10-04
Synthetic	$30	500 requests per 5h	Kimi-K3, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash	2026-10-04
Alibaba Pro	$50	6,000 per 5h, 45,000 per week, 90,000 per month	Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax	2026-10-04

Price ladder, lowest to highest: Ollama Free $0, Command Code Go $1, MiMo Lite $6, then three plans at $10, MiMo Standard $16, GLM Lite $18, Kimi Moderato $19, Chutes Pro and Ollama Pro $20, MiniMax Plus $22 (closed to new buyers), Synthetic $30.

Data graphic: three flat $10 coding plans compared on cap model and overflow. OpenCode Go states its cap as 20% per 5 hours and 50% per week, Command Code GOAT gives $70 credits about 75K requests at $0.000133 per request before its fee, and Chutes Plus publishes no daily quota or cost per request.

The three $10 plans compared on what each vendor publishes (vendor pages, checked 2026-10-04).

OpenCode Go: $10, the most transparent caps

Price: $10 per month. Go Plus is $40.
Models: the docs list 30, including GLM-5.3, Kimi K3, MiMo-V2.6, MiniMax M3, Qwen3.8 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Some are not open-weight: Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, GPT 6 Luna and GPT 5.6 Luna are on the list, and the two Muse Spark entries are limited to certain regions.
Caps: each model has a monthly dollar limit. The 5-hour window is 20% of it, the week is 50%.
Requests on Go (per 5h / week / month): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 26,000 / 65,000 / 130,000. GLM-5.3-Flash 6,320 / 15,790 / 31,580. MiniMax M3 3,200 / 8,000 / 16,000. GLM-5.3 220 / 540 / 1,080. Kimi K3 110 / 250 / 490.
List prices per 1M tokens: GLM-5.3-Flash $0.15 in / $0.50 out. Kimi K3 $3.00 / $15.00. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.15 / $0.60 off-peak, $0.30 / $1.20 peak.
Computed cost per request: $10 / 130,000 = $0.000077 on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. $10 / 490 = $0.0204 on Kimi K3. The same $10 buys a 265-fold different number of requests depending on model.
Computed value multiple: a $60 model limit on a $10 plan is 6.0x; a $15 limit is 1.5x. Frontier-priced models such as Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are the $15 ones.
Overflow: with "Use balance" on, Go falls back to your Zen balance. Zen is pay-as-you-go with card fees passed through at 4.4% + $0.30 per transaction.
Tools: validated with OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, ZCode, Pi, jcode and Kilo Code CLI. The docs flag DeepSeek Harness, GitHub Copilot Chat, Kimi Code and MiMo Code as having incomplete session support. One member per workspace can subscribe.
Go vs Zen: Go is flat monthly with per-model caps. Zen is per-token credits with no caps.

Data graphic: a flow diagram of how OpenCode Go caps a $10 plan. Each model has its own monthly dollar limit from $15 to $60, usage is capped at 20% per 5 hours, 50% per week and 100% per month, and at the limit it stops or falls back to the Zen balance, which carries a 4.4% + $0.30 card fee.

How OpenCode Go's dollar caps stack, and what happens at the limit.

Data graphic: a lollipop chart of OpenCode Go requests per month on the $10 plan, by model. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash gets 130,000, GLM-5.3-Flash 31,580, MiniMax M3 16,000, GLM-5.3 1,080 and Kimi K3 490, so DeepSeek gets 265x as many requests as Kimi K3.

Requests per month on OpenCode Go by model. The 265x gap is computed as 130,000 / 490.

Chutes Plus: $10, but the quota is not published

Price: Plus $10 per month, Pro $20. Plus gets 6% off pay-as-you-go rates beyond the quota, Pro 10%.
Quota: the page says "bundled daily quota" and links to plan limits. We could not retrieve a number, so the daily request count is UNVERIFIED.
Pay-as-you-go rates per 1M tokens (in / out): DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.44 / $1.32. Kimi K2.6 $0.50 / $2.85. GLM-5.2 $1.25 / $3.95. Qwen3.8-27B $0.24 / $2.20. Kimi-K3 $3.00 / $15.00.
Computed session cost: Chutes' own estimator defines an intense four-hour coding session as 1.5M input and 90K output tokens. Formula: in x price_in + out x price_out. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 costs $0.78 (12.8 sessions per $10). Kimi K2.6 costs $1.01 (9.9 sessions per $10).
Privacy: the featured models run on confidential TEE compute.

Command Code GOAT: $10 plus a fee that is not stated

Price: $10 per month plus a "processing fee". The page gives no amount, so the all-in price is UNVERIFIED.
What you get: $70 of monthly credits (up to about $100 of usage with deals) and roughly 75K requests.
Models: $70 allowance on GLM-5.2, Tencent Hy3 and Qwen 3.8 27B; $60 on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash; 30 more models including Kimi, MiniMax, MiMo and Nemotron. Several stealth and Ling models cost no credits. GPT-5.6 Luna, Grok 4.5 and Qwen Max and Plus are closed-source models included on every plan.
Effective usage: MiniMax M3 credits stretch up to 2x (the page shows $47 on GOAT); MiMo V2.5 up to 5x (about $100).
Computed: $10 / 75,000 = $0.000133 per request, before the fee. Credits per dollar: 7.0x on GOAT, 10x on the $1 Go tier, 4.0x on Pro ($20 for $80).
Ladder: Go $1 ($10 credits, ~9K requests), GOAT $10, Pro $20 ($80, ~100K), Max 10x $100 ($150, ~219K), Max 20x $200 ($300, ~437K).

Z.ai GLM Coding Plan: from $18

Price: Lite $18, Pro $72, Max $160 per month. Quarterly: $48.60, $194.40, $432. Annual: $172.80, $691.20, $1,536. Computed: Lite annual is $14.40 per month, Max annual $128.
Credits: Lite 2,000 per 5 hours and 10,000 per week; Pro 12,000 and 60,000; Max 28,000 and 140,000.
Weekly token allowance on GLM-5.3 at 95% cache hits: Lite 48 to 97M, Pro 290 to 580M, Max 676 to 1,352M. The low end is peak hours and the high end is off-peak. On GLM-5.3-Flash Lite gets 146 to 292M.
Computed price per 1M tokens (GLM-5.3): $18 / (48M x 52/12) = $0.086 at peak, $0.043 off-peak. Pro is $0.057 to $0.029. Max is $0.055 to $0.027. GLM-5.3 API list price is $1.40 in and $4.40 out.
Peak hours: Monday to Friday 14:00 to 18:00 Singapore time. Off-peak is charged at half the credit rate. From 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-07 all usage is charged at the off-peak rate.
Models and tools: GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3-Flash; Claude Code, Cline and OpenCode; web search, web reader and Zread MCP tools. The terms bar using the quota for your own apps, bots or SaaS, and bar resale.
Renewal: the terms say a renewal is charged at the price shown on the day of the charge, not your original price. A 50% discount exists only for legacy subscribers migrating after 2026-04-30. We found no public new-user intro discount.

Data graphic: a dumbbell chart of GLM Coding Plan price per 1M tokens, off-peak to peak, for GLM-5.3 at 95% cache hits. Lite runs $0.043 to $0.087, Pro $0.029 to $0.057 and Max $0.027 to $0.055, so peak roughly doubles the price on every tier.

GLM Coding Plan price per 1M tokens, off-peak vs peak. Computed by ThreatFrontier from Z.ai's weekly allowances.

Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan: $6 or $16

Price (overseas): Lite $6, Standard $16, Pro $50, Max $100. A 12% discount applies to the first purchase only (Lite $5.28, computed).
Credits: Lite 60M (about 120 medium to complex tasks), Standard 200M (400), Pro 700M (1,400), Max 1.6B (3,200). Computed cost per task: $0.050, $0.040, $0.036, $0.031.
No 5-hour limit. Credits are consumed at a multiple of tokens: 1x for mimo-v2-omni, 2x for mimo-v2-pro up to 256K context, 4x beyond that.
Tools: Claude Code, OpenClaw, OpenCode, Kilo Code and Cline.
Caveat: this is Xiaomi's launch post. It names the older v2 models. The current subscription page is a JavaScript app that returned no content, so the v2.6 plan table and credit counts are UNVERIFIED. MiMo-V2.6 models are available through OpenCode Go at $0.14 / $0.28 per 1M (Flash).

Alibaba Qwen Coding Plan: $50 only

Price: Pro $50 per month. The cheaper Lite tier closed to new subscriptions on 2026-03-20 and renewals and upgrades ended on 2026-04-13.
Limits: 6,000 requests per 5 hours, 45,000 per week, 90,000 per month. Computed: $50 / 90,000 = $0.00056 per request.
Models: qwen3.7-plus, qwen3.6-plus, kimi-k2.5, glm-5, MiniMax-M2.5 recommended; also qwen3.5-plus, qwen3-coder-next, qwen3-coder-plus and glm-4.7.
Rules: interactive tools only. No scripts or backends on the plan key.

Ollama Cloud, Kimi, MiniMax, Synthetic

Ollama: Free $0 (pay-as-you-go credits), Pro $20 or $200 a year ($16.67 a month) with $60 of credits, Max $100 with $300 and 10 concurrent requests. Computed: credits are 3.0x the fee on both paid tiers. Per 1M tokens: glm-5.3 $1.40 / $4.40, deepseek-v4.1-flash $0.30 / $1.20, kimi-k3 $3.00 / $15.00.
Kimi: USD tiers are Moderato $19, Allegretto $39, Allegro $99, Vivace $199. Annual Moderato is $180 ($15 a month). Kimi Code is in every tier. No numeric Kimi Code cap was published on the pages we read.
MiniMax: Token Plan Plus $22, Max $55, Ultra $132, with 5-hour and weekly windows. Token Plan is closed to new purchases and replaced by M Plan tiers Go, Explore (3x) and Build (7.5x). The M Plan dollar prices are UNVERIFIED.
Synthetic: $30 a month or $1 a day, 500 requests per 5 hours, one concurrent request per model. No $10 tier.

No flat plan: DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Fireworks, Together, Cerebras

DeepSeek API: pay-as-you-go. V4.1 Flash is $0.15 in / $0.60 out off-peak, $0.30 / $1.20 at peak. V4-Pro is $0.66 / $1.98 off-peak. Concurrency 2,500 (Flash) and 500 (Pro). Computed: the four-hour session above costs $0.558 at peak and $0.279 off-peak, so $10 of balance covers 17.9 to 35.8 sessions.
OpenRouter: 50 requests a day on Free; Standard adds a 5.5% platform fee.
Cerebras: a one-time $5 credit that expires in 30 days. Fireworks and Together: per-token only on the pages we read. Their rate tables did not load, so model prices are UNVERIFIED.

Data graphic: a dot plot of the cost of one heavy 4-hour coding session 1.5M input plus 90K output tokens on pay-as-you-go routes. It runs from $0.28 on DeepSeek off-peak 35.8 sessions per $10 through $0.56, $0.78 and $1.01 to $2.50 on the GLM-5.3 API list price, which is 8.9x the cheapest.

Cost of one heavy session at pay-as-you-go list prices. Session size is from the Chutes estimator; costs are computed by ThreatFrontier.

Which one for which developer

Heavy daily agent use on a cheap model: OpenCode Go with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or MiMo-V2.6-Flash (150,400 requests a month).
Frontier open models, light use: Kimi K3 gets only 490 requests a month on Go. Check Chutes or an API balance instead.
Many models, one wallet: Command Code GOAT, after you find out the fee.
GLM only, Claude Code or Cline: GLM Lite at $18, or $14.40 annual.
Occasional use: a $10 top-up at DeepSeek is 18 to 36 heavy sessions with no subscription.

Caveats and what changed since our earlier coverage

Plans moved quickly. Alibaba Lite closed in March and April. Z.ai changed to credits on 2026-07-30. MiniMax replaced Token Plan with M Plan.
Our earlier single-plan pieces predate several of these changes: OpenCode Go $10 plan review, GLM Coding Plan pricing, Xiaomi MiMo Token Plan guide, MiniMax Token Plan tiers and Ollama Pro vs Max. See also Ollama Cloud vs OpenRouter vs OpenCode Go and OpenCode Go slashes DeepSeek quotas.
Requests are not comparable across vendors. A request on one plan is a dollar-capped slice of tokens, on another a counted call.
We cite no benchmark numbers. None of these pricing pages publishes one we could tie to a plan.
Recheck before buying. Vendors change prices without notice.

Data graphic: a 2026 timeline of six coding-plan changes at Alibaba and Z.ai, from Alibaba Lite closing to new subscriptions on Mar 20 to the Z.ai all-day off-peak credit rate ending on Oct 7. Four of the six changes are at Z.ai.

Six plan changes at Alibaba and Z.ai in 2026 (vendor docs, checked 2026-10-04).