--- title: "OpenCode: token usage, costs, and access control" url: https://daily.dev/posts/opencode-token-usage-costs-and-access-control-bkgcnq2wa source_url: https://portkey.ai/blog/opencode-token-usage-costs-and-access-control/ type: article source: "portkey" published: 2025-12-31T07:28:27.519Z updated: 2026-06-18T02:12:51.081Z tags: ["ai", "devtools", "opencode"] reading_time: 5 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenCode: token usage, costs, and access control **[portkey](https://daily.dev/sources/portkey)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenCode is an open-source, terminal-first AI coding assistant that supports multiple model providers. As usage scales, managing token costs, observability, and governance becomes challenging across different providers. An AI gateway like Portkey provides centralized control for tracking usage and costs, monitoring agent workflows, enforcing guardrails on model access and outputs, and implementing access control with budgets and rate limits. This approach adds operational structure without changing how developers interact with OpenCode. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [OpenAI Codex best practices](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-codex-best-practices-uwhppa1kj) · portkey · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Portkey open-sources its AI gateway after processing 2 trillion tokens a day](https://daily.dev/posts/portkey-open-sources-its-ai-gateway-after-processing-2-trillion-tokens-a-day-wludkfkk7) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#opencode](https://daily.dev/tags/opencode) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/opencode-token-usage-costs-and-access-control-bkgcnq2wa)