Spending seeds

Use open models

Ask, code, or connect your apps: what it costs, and what happens to your request.

The woodls command

On your own computer, in a terminal.

Three ways, today

Ask

woodls ask "Explain tree rings in one line"

The answer comes back as it’s written. Secrets and common personal data are taken out on your machine before anything is sent, and put back in the answer.

Code

woodls code opencode

Starts opencode, a coding agent, wired to woodls through a private proxy on your own computer, with a limit per request (5 seeds unless you set another) and per day (50). Goose is wired up too, though we haven’t tested it yet.

Connect your apps

woodls serve

Gives any app that speaks the OpenAI API a local address, 127.0.0.1:9663, and a session key that only works on your machine.

Not built yet

Marked so until it is.

Next

The woodls app, for chat; and summons, agents that finish whole tasks and report back COMING.

In seeds

Per million tokens, the pieces of text a model reads and writes.

Prices

Model sizeReading, per million tokensWriting, per million tokens
Small2 seeds6 seeds
Medium8 seeds30 seeds

Text a computer has already read earlier in your conversation will cost a quarter as much to read again (COMING; today it costs the full price).

Three hundred seeds A tray of 300 amber seeds in 15 rows of 20. One seed is ringed, and a bracket under the tray marks one and a quarter seeds, the cost of a real coding task. 1.24 seeds: one coding task 300 seeds
Plate I What seeds buy Three hundred seeds, one each. In our tests, a coding agent renamed a function across three files for 1.24 seeds, the bracket; and 2,000 short questions to a small model cost 1.74 seeds in all, so one seed answered about 1,150 of them. Prices are on this page; the figures are from 26 September 2026, on one Mac.

In order

From your terminal to the answer.

What happens to your request

  1. Secrets and common personal data are taken out on your machine.
  2. The Gateway checks the request against the acceptable-use policy. A request it refuses costs nothing.
  3. It holds the most the request may cost, and sends it to a computer that’s free.
  4. That computer runs it and signs a receipt.
  5. You pay for exactly the text read and written; the rest of the hold comes back. The entry is on the Rings.

Limits

  • The computer that answers can read your request. For private work, use a grove.
  • It isn’t for regulated data, such as health or bank records.
  • Today it runs open-source models that fit on one good computer.