OpenCode

What people say

OpenCode's numbers are the headline: past 160,000 GitHub stars as of early 2026 — reportedly the most-starred open-source coding agent by a wide margin — with figures floating around of several million monthly active developers. Reviewers on sites like Developers Digest and AI Coder Scope frame it explicitly as "the open-source terminal coding agent that challenges Claude Code," which tells you where it's positioned: not a toy, a genuine daily driver for people who don't want to be locked into one vendor's CLI or pay per-seat for Cursor.

The feature reviewers cite most is Plan mode — you get the agent to lay out its intended changes before anything touches disk, which matters on refactors where a wrong first guess wastes a lot of tokens and time. File snapshots get similar praise: a multi-file edit gone wrong is one undo away from a clean state, rather than a git-stash scramble. Provider flexibility (75+ providers, including fully local models) is the other repeated selling point — you're not stuck if your Anthropic quota runs out mid-task.

On the critical side, the consistent line is that Claude Code still wins on autonomous handling of large, multi-file agentic tasks — OpenCode narrows the gap but doesn't close it. Onboarding is also rougher: you configure providers and keys yourself, and the docs assume comfort with terminal tooling; there's no single-command, zero-config path the way Claude Code or Cursor offer.

The project's history is its own review topic. The original repository moved to Charm, which some contributors say involved rewritten git history and deleted comments; a group forked it and kept building under the OpenCode name, which is the project now maintained by the Anomaly org (formerly SST) and covered here. Charm's version was later renamed Crush to end the naming collision. Anyone comparing notes from mid-2025 discussions should check which project a given post is actually describing — GitHub issues and Hacker News threads from that period conflate the two constantly.

OpenCode Go, the optional hosted-model add-on, gets generally positive but thin reviews: $5 for the first month, then $10/month for bundled access to open-weight models like DeepSeek and Qwen, with usage caps ($12/5hrs, $30/week, $60/month) that reviewers say they haven't hit in weeks of daily use, though it's still in beta.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.