# OpenCode 1060 Hacker News commenters recommended OpenCode and 572 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 13 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.2 years (41 owners). **Verdict:** An open-source coding agent recommended for mixing models and providers, including cheap or local ones, with a good-value Go plan; critics cite prompt privacy, security holes and bloat. ## Why people recommend it - Mix models and providers freely (6 comments): "I've been experimenting with some planner-executor-reviewer setup in opencode, and I'm starting to feel like multiple smaller models working together are netting me better results" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537394)) "there is another service that lets you upload keys for Ant/OAI, where you add one key for your company and then OpenCode enables you to budget / route across vendors" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137056)) "A harness like OpenCode will enable you to use different models in one session, or more specifically different subtasks when doing long running teams." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948260)) - Go plan offers strong value (5 comments): "The OpenCode Go $40 plan with DeepSeek flash is like 2x the value of the Claude max 20x plan for how much I actually get out of it, for 1/5 the price." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156901)) "Your comparison is the research I didn't know I needed, and I will be cancelling my Copilot subscription to replace it with OpenCode Go right away." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710667)) "OpenCode Go is a smoking deal IMO. You basically get 6x multiplier on the $10 price since you get $60 worth of usage for $10." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667407)) - Replaces Copilot or Claude Code (5 comments): "Your comparison is the research I didn't know I needed, and I will be cancelling my Copilot subscription to replace it with OpenCode Go right away." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710667)) "switch to opencode - they allegedly reverse engineered Claude Code, and so the performance you get with Claude models should be very similar" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46069296)) "My experience with Opencode using its default model, vs. Github Copilot using its default model, is night and day. One is amazing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675506)) - Works well with open models (4 comments): "This is a relatively complex piece of tooling built entirely by Gemma 4 inside OpenCode where I manually intervened maybe only 4 times" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090748)) "It's not particularly hard to set up OpenCode for your company and plug in one of the myriad inference providers running free models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595152)) "I've completely replaced GitHub Copilot using Sonnet 3.6 with OpenCode using Qwen3.6 27b, and it's been a great experience." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48182750)) ## What people warn about - Prompts routed through their servers (3 comments): "Their terms and conditions allowed training on prompts, the default behavior was to route prompts to their servers for conversation summary/labeling." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276595)) "even when using local models in ollama or lmstudio, prompts are proxied via their domain, so never put anything sensitive even when using local setup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464920)) "I've had opencode go + opencode work reliably, though I'm skeptical of how robust their data security claims are in practice" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655991)) - Security holes in local server (3 comments): "Previous versions of OpenCode started a server which allowed any website visited in a web browser to execute arbitrary commands on the local machine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46581096)) "the CORS fix, while a huge improvement, is not sufficient since it doesn't protect from things like malicious code running locally or on the network" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597139)) "A permanently running buggy server on your computer instead of a screen or tmux session is not something that should be a default solution." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102888)) - Resource heavy, laggy and bloated (4 comments): "It has a web UI, smoother UX, and less flickering. Nothing groundbreaking, but it is pretty annoying that even something as simple as tagging files with @ is still so laggy." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46573817)) "the runtime is so resource heavy that, even though the heavy computational workload is given to AI on a remote cluster of servers, it will bring an old-ish laptop to a stall" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478854)) "Wish Pi (and Opencode, DeepSeek Harness, Claude, Claude Desktop, Codex Desktop) was written in a memory and performance efficient language." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928233)) - Buggy and needs constant fiddling (3 comments): "I love the idea behind OpenCode but compared to managing Claude and Codex, it's such a pain and requires continuous debugging or managing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098647)) "Opencode (and other coding agents) have hundreds of open issues reported. It is quite discouraging when they are not being closed/fixed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258568)) "A permanently running buggy server on your computer instead of a screen or tmux session is not something that should be a default solution." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102888)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Claude Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-code.md): 4522 recommend - [OpenAI Codex](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codex.md): 2474 recommend - [Gemini CLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemini-cli.md): 172 recommend - [Cline](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cline.md): 63 recommend - [Mistral Vibe](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mistral-vibe.md): 57 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "OpenCode", https://hackerapproved.com/p/opencode/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).