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Claude Code Sends 33K Tokens Before Your Prompt; OpenCode Just 7K
A benchmark shows Claude Code sends ~33,000 tokens of overhead per request, 4.7x OpenCode's ~7,000. Claude Code also rewrites up to 54x more prompt-cache tokens per session, costing more. Real setups with instruction files and MCP servers can hit 75,000–85,000 tokens before user input.
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The headline metric is real, but session-level costs can flip: Claude Code's batching sometimes yields lower total tokens than OpenCode's per-turn overhead.
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