OpenCode
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy it if your team lives in the terminal and wants a free, model-agnostic agent with no vendor lock-in.
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OpenCode vs Cursor
OpenCode and Cursor both land on Depends.
Cursor
Depends
Confidence: High
Buy if you are a professional developer or engineering team shipping code daily and can absorb usage-based costs.
| Compare | ||
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Terminal-comfortable developers | Professional developers shipping daily |
| Who it's not for | Non-technical founders wanting a polished vendor product | Casual coders who will hit Pro limits and hate overages |
| Privacy | One serious 2026 CVE (unauthenticated local server RCE); no public security page on the official site.⁴ | Active CVE stream 2025-2026 including remote code execution; patch fast and lock down agent permissions. |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources. | Refund fights and 1.6/5 Trustpilot |
| Public sentiment | Social chatter is largely enthusiastic, with developers actively comparing it against Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex.¹ | Developers broadly praise Cursor's agent productivity and autocomplete, but many turned critical after 2025 pricing changes and quality dips.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | CVE-2026-22812 command injection: unauthenticated local server enables remote code execution. Patch fast.⁴ | Usage pricing is opaque; power users report $200+/month vs the $20 plan |
Pick OpenCode when
- Terminal-comfortable developers
- Teams avoiding AI vendor lock-in
- Cost-conscious solo devs
- Local-first / offline workflows
When OpenCode is not a fit
- Non-technical founders wanting a polished vendor product
- Teams needing security or compliance sign-off
- Anyone expecting SLAs, support desks, or hand-holding
- Shoppers who want one predictable monthly price
Pick Cursor when
- Professional developers shipping daily
- Engineering teams adopting AI coding at scale
- Front-end and product teams prototyping fast
- Enterprises wanting centralized AI dev controls
When Cursor is not a fit
- Casual coders who will hit Pro limits and hate overages
- Security-sensitive orgs with no capacity to vet agents and patch CVEs
- Anyone needing predictable flat monthly bills
- Non-technical founders expecting finished apps from pure prompts
Sources
- OpenCode - Open source AI coding agent (Hacker News)news.ycombinator.comreview
- OpenCode official siteopencode.aiofficial
- anomalyco/opencode on GitHubgithub.comofficial
- OpenCode Agent RCE via Unauthenticated Local Serverthehackerwire.comsecurity
- OpenCode Security pageopencode.aisecurity
- What Is OpenCode? (DataCamp)datacamp.comreview
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- r/opencode: why should I use it?reddit.comreview
- Claude Code vs OpenCode CLI comparisonaimagicx.comnews
- Top 7 Self-Hosted and Open-Source AI Coding Agentsopenhands.devnews
- OpenCode review (name history)heyuan110.comreview
- Cursor Reviews 2026 . G2g2.comreview
- Cursor Reviews . Trustpilottrustpilot.comreview
- Cursor AI Review (2026) . Prismicprismic.ioreview
- Cursor Agents Review . Zachary Proserzackproser.comreview