OpenCode - Open Source Alternatives to Claude Code

04 Jul, 2025

Command lines based agentic code generation apps are the talk of the town. You might have already used Claude Code/OpenAI Code/Google Gemini, etc.

But if you want flexibility of using any model + open source then OpenCode is a good alternative.

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How to get started?

You can install it using various means

Using Homebrew (macOS)

brew install sst/tap/opencode

Using npm

brew install sst/tap/opencode

Using Bash

curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash

Once it is installed, you can run the following command to login to your auth provider of choice

opencode auth login

2025-07-05 at 10.21.28@2x.png The credentials are configured in ~/.local/share/opencode/auth.json

To know about the supported provider checkout Models.dev which they’re using under the hood.

Here is a quick walkthrough by AICodeKing YouTube channel

You can check out source code here 👉 https://github.com/sst/opencode

Happy AI coding!