OpenCode Adds Free Pulse Alpha Model

Pulse Alpha’s headline specs are compelling, but the lack of an identified provider, public benchmarks, and clear end date makes this an experiment—not yet a dependable production default.

• –1M context is useful for large repositories, long agent sessions, and multimodal workloads.
• –Tool use and reasoning support make it especially relevant to coding agents.
• –OpenCode says usage data may be retained and used to improve the model.
• –Availability is region-restricted, and free access is explicitly temporary.
• –Developers should test latency, coding accuracy, and rate limits before relying on it.