Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
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Claude Code consumes 33,000 tokens of overhead before processing a prompt compared to OpenCode's 7,000, resulting in a significant cost difference for running large language models in production, potentially quadrupling LLM costs for users of Claude Code.
Claude Code burns 33k tokens before your prompt is read—OpenCode only 7k. This means your per-invocation cost is 4–5× higher with Claude Code, and cold-start latency jumps from ~200 ms to ~1.2 s on the same hardware. If you’re running agents at scale, switching to OpenCode cuts your token budget by 75 % or lets you spin up 4× more parallel instances for the same spend.