Claude Code vs OpenCode: Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Claude Code and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Claude Code and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Either way, you pay for the model calls. A median coding-agent day on our gateway is 95 requests and 8.6 million tokens. The table prices every step at one model’s rate.
Both run on Standard Compute, where each step goes to the cheapest model that can do it: routine steps go to efficient open models, hard ones to frontier models such as Claude Fable 5.1 or GPT-6 Astra.
| Model | Typical day | Busy day |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $7.34 | $59.10 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.67 | $29.55 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.23 | $2.43 |
Fixed monthly plans from $19. Eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute first, no card. Trial terms
Pick a winner in each category. You can change your vote anytime. 10 votes cast so far.
Claude CodeOpenCodeChoose Claude Code if you are developers who want the strongest end-to-end coding agent, in the terminal or IDE. Choose OpenCode if you are terminal users who want a polished AI coding interface with LSP support.
In our editorial scoring, Claude Code leads in 4 of six categories (output quality, autonomy, reliability and ease of use), while OpenCode leads in 1 (value). On price, Claude Code runs included with claude pro/max / api and is proprietary; OpenCode runs free (mit) / free zen models / go $10/mo and is open source.
Across 10 community votes on this matchup, OpenCode currently leads in 3 of six categories. Cast your own vote above to move the needle.
What it costs to run Claude Code or OpenCode
Best API for Claude Code →
4 options compared, with prices and limits
Best API for OpenCode →
7 options compared, with prices and limits
Standard Compute sends each step to the cheapest model that can do it, on providers we vet for price, uptime and speed. Plans start at $19 a month, and eligible new accounts can try $0.25 of compute with no card. Choose your agent below to connect.
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More on OpenCode: OpenCode Pricing: Plans, Subscription and API Costs (2026) · How do I use DeepSeek in OpenCode?
Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It searches and understands your codebase, plans multi-step changes, edits files, runs tests and shell commands, and works through git workflows including commits and pull requests. Widely regarded as the quality benchmark among terminal coding agents, it's extensible through MCP servers, hooks, and subagents, and also ships as IDE extensions and a desktop app.
OpenCode is an open-source (MIT) AI coding agent best known for its terminal TUI, now also shipping a desktop app and IDE extensions with OpenCode 2. It connects to 75+ LLM providers through models.dev, has LSP integration for real code understanding, and runs several sessions in parallel. The tool is free; for models you bring your own key, use OpenCode's free Zen models, pay as you go on Zen, or subscribe to its Go plan ($10/month, Go Plus $40).
Claude Code and OpenCode both run on Standard Compute
