Ask HN: Claude Code vs. Open Code
What is the current consensus?
Are they at "feature parity", is there some things that Claude Code supports that Open Code does not have, and lastly is there a noticeable difference in quality of the output of the two? The output is “identical” if you’re using the same model. Consider them separate front ends really. OpenCode - you can easily see the changed files on your branch, it defaults to being permissive with tools, can easily fork a session so you can fix unrelated issues or small issues without consuming context, you can add more “modes” like build and plan as a first class construct, you aren’t limited to just Anthropic models. Claude Code - you can do all of the above in one way or another, not least if you use an IDE with it I started using OpenCode to get away from the horrible Claude flicker, but it seems that they have fixed that recently - I don’t think I’ll be going back though, and I use Opus/Sonnet exclusively.