Claude vs OpenCode
Using only the use cases on agentsetups: 168 name Claude, 9 name OpenCode, and 6 name both. Claude’s biggest category here is Agent setup & config (26); OpenCode’s is Agent setup & config (5).
This compares what people used each agent for in the sources we list, not which is better. Counts reflect what gets posted, not market share.
Use cases by category
| Category | Claude | OpenCode |
|---|---|---|
| Agent setup & config | 26 | 5 |
| Coding | 24 | 3 |
| Knowledge & memory | 8 | 1 |
| Games | 21 | 0 |
| Productivity & ops | 12 | 0 |
| Content & video | 12 | 0 |
| Research & science | 9 | 0 |
| Design & frontend | 9 | 0 |
| Marketing & growth | 8 | 0 |
| Finance & trading | 5 | 0 |
| Personal life | 5 | 0 |
| Hardware & IoT | 5 | 0 |
| Automation & integrations | 5 | 0 |
| DevOps | 4 | 0 |
| Security | 4 | 0 |
| Data analysis | 4 | 0 |
| Personal assistants | 2 | 0 |
| Sales & outreach | 2 | 0 |
| Education | 2 | 0 |
| Health | 1 | 0 |
Used together 6
- Plan with Claude Code, execute with Codex via MCP
Claude Code plans and reviews, Codex executes through the Codex MCP, and notes and skills live in Obsidian.
- Share work memory across Claude Code, Codex and Pi
Nimrod reads each agent’s local session files into one SQLite log, injects a project brief at session start and answers queries over MCP.
- Move your default coding agent to OpenCode via OpenRouter
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash passed every run of his two-task test at about two cents a task (self-reported, "a field report and not a ranking").
- Ticket in, PR out: four skills and a reviewer in CI
Six weeks in: 128 PRs, 124 merged; planning a ticket takes about 12 minutes (self-reported).
- Run OpenCode on DeepSeek or GLM models
OpenCode on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or GLM-5.3 instead of a native seat
- Let a laptop control coding agents that run on a home PC
Long jobs keep running on the PC after the laptop is closed; you verify and merge next morning (self-reported).
Different use cases
Only Claude 162
- Find an exoplanet candidate in NASA TESS data · Research & science
- Run agent teams on materials-science discovery · Research & science
- Build and backtest a trading bot with no coding background · Finance & trading
- Run Sonnet as main, Haiku explorers and Opus as advisor · Agent setup & config
- Give agents documentation instead of memory plugins · Knowledge & memory
- Install a skill that stops agents burying the answer · Agent setup & config
- Decompile a full game with a long-running agent swarm · Games
- Build a strategy backtesting engine with Claude Code · Finance & trading
Only OpenCode 3
- Expensive models think, cheap models implement · Agent setup & config
- Run OpenCode with local Ollama models in a sandbox · Agent setup & config
- Ramble into a daily note, let OpenCode make sense of it · Knowledge & memory