OpenCode

Who it is for

For developers and individuals. It runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, the web, and a computer you control. License: MIT. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: The homepage says you can start with free models and no account. Models named on November 10, 2026 include Big Pickle, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free, and GLM-5.3-Flash Free. OpenCode Go is $10 a month. OpenCode Go Plus is $40 a month. A ChatGPT Plus or Pro login, or a GitHub Copilot login, is a separate bill. Hosted price: Free models are $0. OpenCode Go is $10 a month. OpenCode Go Plus is $40 a month. Checked November 10, 2026. Bringing ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot uses that subscription. Run it yourself: Easy. The homepage lists desktop builds for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and a terminal install via a shell script, npm, or Homebrew. This listing did not run it.

How to switch

• Compared with Jules. Its price on file: The homepage lists task caps and does not print a dollar price. Jules winds down on December 31, 2026. Not checked.

  You only get part of: a session you can leave and come back to, a task that runs on a schedule, and notes the agent keeps for the next task, and 1 more.

  Free alternatives to Jules

• Compared with Ona. Its price on file: The October 13, 2026 post does not print a dollar price. Ona Cloud shut down on October 31, 2026. October payments and unused credits are refunded.

  What you give up: keeps working after you close the laptop. You only get part of: commit and push, or open a pull request.

  Free alternatives to Ona

• Compared with Conductor. Its price on file: The November 4 announcement does not print a dollar price. New signups stopped that day. Existing Pro users keep Pro features for free. Cloud shuts down on November 20, 2026.

  What you give up: claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode as the agents and a cloud workspace that keeps working after you close the app. You only get part of: an isolated git checkout for each task.

  Free alternatives to Conductor

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

• 78
  Instead of Jules8 of 8 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.You only get part of: a session you can leave and come back to, a task that runs on a schedule, and notes the agent keeps for the next task, and 1 more.The intro docs say you describe a change and OpenCode edits the project. Plan mode can suggest the change before Build mode writes it.The homepage says you can start multiple agents in parallel on one project. That is a local session. The docs checked do not describe a cloud session that keeps working after you close the laptop.The GitHub docs install an app and a workflow so OpenCode runs inside GitHub Actions on a repository.The same docs say /opencode on an issue can create a branch and open a pull request. A review comment can commit onto the current pull request.A documented GitHub Actions event runs OpenCode on a cron schedule. That is a workflow file in the repo, not a scheduled task stored in the app.The intro's /init command writes AGENTS.md and tells you to commit it. That is a file you keep. It is not a memory Jules saved for you.The GitHub setup stores a provider API key as an Actions secret. The docs checked do not describe a saved list of task environment variables.Comment /opencode on an issue, or run the documented issues workflow when an issue is opened. The fix example opens a pull request from that issue. The page is labeled as the V1 docs.
• 75
  Instead of Ona5 of 5 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: keeps working after you close the laptop. You only get part of: commit and push, or open a pull request.The desktop and the terminal work on a project you already have on disk.The homepage is a coding agent. The GitHub docs, labeled V1, say a comment with /opencode can open a branch and a pull request.Those V1 docs describe a pull request from a GitHub comment. They do not import an Ona cloud environment.The homepage says OpenCode works on your machine. It does not describe a computer that keeps editing after the laptop is shut.The homepage says you can start with free models and no account. Named examples on November 10, 2026 include Big Pickle.
• 63
  Instead of Conductor7 of 7 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.What you give up: claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode as the agents and a cloud workspace that keeps working after you close the app. You only get part of: an isolated git checkout for each task.The homepage checked November 10, 2026 says you can start multiple agents in parallel on the same project.OpenCode is one agent. The homepage does not run Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor as separate harnesses the way Conductor does.Parallel sessions share the project. The homepage does not describe a git worktree and a branch for each task.The GitHub docs, labeled V1 and read November 10, 2026, say /opencode on an issue can create a branch and open a pull request. The desktop homepage lists diffs.The homepage lists a macOS desktop build, plus Windows and Linux.The homepage says OpenCode works on your machine. A phone app can steer a session. It does not describe a cloud computer that keeps editing after the laptop is shut.The homepage says you can bring any of 200+ providers, including a local model, or log in with ChatGPT Plus or Pro or GitHub Copilot.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• Continue: An Apache-2.0 IDE assistant. The repository is read-only after the Cursor acquisition.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Cursor: A coding editor with Tab autocomplete and an agent. Free is limited. The code is closed.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gatus: A health dashboard with a status page in the config file.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub's coding assistant. Free is capped. The code is not public.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• Uptime Kuma: Uptime checks, with a public status page of those checks.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Where we looked

• https://opencode.ai/
• https://opencode.ai/docs/
• https://opencode.ai/docs/github/
• https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anomalyco/opencode/dev/LICENSE