OpenCode Community Concurrency Experiment: About 40 Ox Alpha Agents

One-sentence takeaway

Ethan reports that running about 40 Ox Alpha agents simultaneously during the early free period produced about 7 tasks per worker per hour, 26.8 seconds P50 latency, and 100% traceable code citations; this is a single-user load observation, not a service SLA.

Test environment

• Entry point: OpenCode CLI / opencodeCLI community discussion; the exact version, model ID, and hardware were not disclosed.

• Target: Testing maximum concurrency with about 40 Ox Alpha agents working at the same time.

• Tasks: The comment reports only tasks/hour/worker; it does not publish a task set, repository, prompt, or completion-evaluation script.

• Logs: No raw logs, request timestamps, or complete tool traces were attached.

Raw results

The author also said that the returned code citations were 100% real and that every failed turn was attributable to their own orchestrator rather than Ox Alpha. Another commenter later said that server congestion made the service unusable for meaningful work, showing that the result is highly time-window dependent.

Reproduction steps

1. Fix the OpenCode version, Ox Alpha model entry point, concurrency scheduler, task set, repository commit, and permissions.

2. Increase workers stepwise from 1, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 42, recording queue time, first token, total latency, disconnects, automatic retries, and successful completion.

3. Save tool calls and citation targets for every task, and manually verify whether each citation is real and supports the conclusion.

4. Count model errors, orchestrator errors, and network/provider errors separately; repeat across time windows and report P50/P95 with confidence intervals.

5. Do not extrapolate single-user free-period data into a concurrency commitment by OpenCode or the provider.

Conclusion and applicability boundary

This report is a useful starting point for reproducing a high-concurrency agent workflow and also suggests that throughput and correctness should be measured separately for Ox Alpha during a high-load free period. It cannot establish that 42 workers will work for all accounts, time windows, tasks, or later versions.

Limitations

• No prompt, task, hardware, client version, or raw logs are provided.

• “100% of code citations were real” has no sample size or decision method.

• Load, the free policy, and server capacity were all short-term conditions.