| Rating |
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| AgentsWisdom score | 75 | 72 |
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| Confidence | high | high |
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| Rank in category | No. 1 of 16 | No. 4 of 16 |
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| Pillars |
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| Adoption & momentum | 95 | 100 |
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| Experts (independent reviews) | 71 | 65 |
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| Crowd (community sample) | 53 | 43 |
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| Community posts sampled | 23 | 21 |
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| Experts vs crowd | Crowd cooler by 17 | Crowd cooler by 22 |
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| Adoption |
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| GitHub stars | 210k | n/e |
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| npm weekly downloads | 2.2M | n/e |
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| PyPI monthly downloads | n/e | n/e |
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| VS Code installs | n/e | 78M |
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| Reported users | 16M | 50M |
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| Reported customer organisations | n/e | n/e |
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| Releases, last 90 days | 42 | 100 |
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| Benchmarks (shown, not scored) |
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| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | No. 36 of 43 · 51.69%
OpenCode + Claude Opus 4.5 | not listed |
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| SWE-bench | not listed | not listed |
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| Independent reviews | 9 | 7 |
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| Trust & safety |
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| Overall grade | B | B |
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| Permission model | C | B |
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| Data access scope | A | A |
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| Data storage | A | n/e |
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| Data retention & training | n/e | C |
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| Incident history | C | n/e |
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| Compliance | D | A |
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| Transparency | A | B |
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| Price |
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| Price | Free, paid from $10 | Free, paid from $10 |
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| Plans | - Free (BYOK): Free
- OpenCode Go: $10 / monthly
- OpenCode Zen: Custom
- Enterprise: Custom
| - Free: Free
- Pro: $10 / monthly
- Pro+: $39 / monthly
- Max: $100 / monthly
- Business: $19 / monthly per user
- Enterprise: $39 / monthly per user
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| Product |
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| Category | Coding agents | Coding agents |
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| Maker | Anomaly | GitHub (Microsoft) |
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| Licence | MIT | proprietary |
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| Use it via | CLI, Desktop app, IDE extension, Web app | IDE extension, CLI, Desktop app, Web app, Mobile app, Chat apps, API |
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| Runs on | macos, linux, windows | macos, windows, linux, web |
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| Models it drives | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, local models, any OpenAI-compatible | GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Kimi (open-weight), automatic model routing |
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| Key features | - Terminal UI, desktop app and IDE extension
- Bring-your-own-key across many providers plus local models
- Plan and Build agent modes
- LSP integration
- Configurable allow/ask/deny permissions per tool, with external_directory scoping
- Optional session sharing via /share
- Optional paid model access via OpenCode Zen and OpenCode Go
| - Agent mode in VS Code, Visual Studio and JetBrains with an Agents window and local Dev Container execution
- Copilot cloud agent: assign an issue, agent works in an ephemeral GitHub Actions environment and opens one pull request per task
- Copilot CLI terminal agent (npm @github/copilot) with experimental semantic model routing
- Copilot code review and Autofix on pull requests
- Copilot app with Jira, Sentry, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations
- Assisted approvals and local sandboxing for agent sessions (public preview, Sept 2026)
- Third-party coding agents (Claude, OpenAI) available on Pro+ and above
- Token-based GitHub AI Credits billing since June 2026
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| Verdicts |
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| Praised for | - Model freedom: one config change to switch provider or run locally (Composio, heyuan110)
- Low-cost access through the $10 Go plan (Thomas Wiegold; multiple HN users)
- Works reasonably well across many models out of the box (HN)
| - Broad model choice under one enterprise contract, including open-weight models, is cited as its enterprise advantage (HN, July 2026).
- Reach and distribution: 50 million users and deep GitHub integration (Microsoft FY26 Q4 call; GitHub discussion users citing GHE integration).
- Independent reviewers find it pays off for high-volume, well-tested code in mainstream languages (Netguru, Sept 2026).
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| Criticised for | - Fast release cadence brings regressions (AICoderScope)
- High memory/CPU use reported (GitHub Memory Megathread; HN)
- Repeated serious security advisories in 2026, including unauthenticated command execution
- Security track record judged weaker than Claude Code (heyuan110)
| - June 2026 move to usage-based AI Credits was widely read as a large effective price increase; many users said they would cancel (HN and GitHub Community, April 2026).
- Trust damage from Copilot inserting promotional 'tips' into pull requests in March 2026, later withdrawn.
- Individual-plan interaction data used for model training by default since 24 April 2026 unless users opt out.
- Real-world suggestion acceptance reported well below GitHub's published figures (Netguru, Sept 2026).
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| Evidence |
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| Evidence collected | 26 Sept 2026 | 26 Sept 2026 |
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| Sources cited | 8 | 5 |
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