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

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SummaryClaude Code's token efficiency vs. competitors is a concrete, builder-actionable comparison for anyone using coding agents in production.
2 → 701 points · peak 701 · 35 observations
Posted on X · 2026-07-13Claude Code sends 33k tokens before it reads your prompt. OpenCode sends 7k. That's 4.7x the overhead — before the model does anything useful. Token efficiency isn't a nice-to-have. It's latency and cost, billed per request.