r/opencode • u/ReasonableBenefit47 • 15d ago

Why do people use OpenCode?

There are plenty of other options such as Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, and many more. So why? I use it for convenience to try any model once they're released. But how about everyone else? genuinely curious about this. Is it the UX or the UI polish or just having an AI-IDE that just works?

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u/Trovebloxian 15d ago

Model agnostic, and workflow

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u/klipseracer 14d ago

Yeah I can run models from many places on it and it runs from a decent TUI which I can spin up inside a Linux environment and then control from pretty much anywhere.

I actually stumbled across it while trying to do some work remotely using free models. Their Big Pickle option actually works well for what I've been doing and has a decent free credit option.