OpenCode vs Sourcegraph Cody

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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OpenCode and Sourcegraph Cody both show up in 7 of 70 answers, but they earn that visibility in different places. OpenCode gets picked for "best free" and "best open-source" questions (2 of 4 and 2 of 3 answers), scoring an overall 5, with Gemini not naming it at all. Cody leans into whole-codebase work, named in 3 of 4 answers on cross-codebase agents and all 3 answers on best-for-large-codebases, giving it an overall 7, boosted by Gemini's 9. Head-to-head, OpenCode edges ahead on 4 questions, Cody on 3, and they tie on 13. Neither is ever named for reliability, testing, privacy, or beginner-focused questions.

Head to head

metric	OpenCode	Sourcegraph Cody
score	5	5
questions won	7	6

By assistant

OpenCode

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	11	15% of answers	#3.3
Claude	3	5% of answers	#5.0
Gemini	0	0% of answers
Perplexity	6	5% of answers	#1.0

Sourcegraph Cody

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	4	0% of answers
Claude	5	10% of answers	#7.5
Gemini	7	9% of answers	#12.0
Perplexity	4	0% of answers

Where they differ

Only OpenCode gets named for

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Only Sourcegraph Cody gets named for

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