Claude Code vs OpenCode

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	Claude Code Anthropic's official agentic CLI; plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, subagents.	OpenCode Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and desktop, maintained by Anomaly.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
Pricing	subscription	freemium
Strengths	+ Mature primitives (skills, hooks, plugins, MCP, subagents) + Official Anthropic-supported harness + Strong ecosystem of community plugins/marketplaces	+ MIT-licensed and developed fully in the open with a large contributor base + Provider-agnostic with 75+ LLM providers, local models, and BYOK support + Privacy-first design that does not store code or context data server-side + Runs in terminal, IDE, and desktop with multi-session support
Tradeoffs	− Terminal-first UX may not fit non-engineer users	− Rapid release cadence can bring breaking changes between versions − Result quality varies with whichever provider and model the user configures
Used in stacks	4	0