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

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first seen Jul 12, 2026 · last seen Jul 17, 2026 · published Jul 12, 2026

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2026-07-13
Claude 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.