Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

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Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.

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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.

Source: systima.ai (188 points, 104 comments) Hacker News discussion

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