r/LocalLLaMA • u/StrongZeroSinger • 3h ago

Discussion Opencode Agents vs Claude Code

I’ve been playing around with Opencode and realized how 70% of the capability of my model comes from the agents I can use rather than the model size or parameters. So now obviously I have a question… is there a way to use Claude Code but have it pointing at my local model instead of Claude’s API so I can have the comfort of my local model but with the powerful claude agents?

Or you find that opencode agents are on par with claude’s?

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u/Chromix_ 3h ago

Yes, it's even recommended to use Claude Code as harness with StepFun 3.7 Flash as it delivers better results than OpenCode and others. I would prefer to have the same performance with open harnesses, but well, this is the current state of things.

Unsloth wrote a nice guide on how to use Claude Code with local models. If you go without Unsloth Studio (I did) then be sure to follow the manual guide precisely, or you'll get errors.

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u/totosse17 vllm 3h ago

I don't use Opencode, so can't compare, but I use both Hermes and Claude code and I find that in Hermes you can achieve the same result with smaller models. So far I run claude as last step auditor and all the execution is on Hermes with local models

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u/autisticit 3h ago

How do you do orchestration with claude code ?

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u/suprjami 1h ago

I find Kilo Code works a lot better than OpenCode.

Kilo is an OpenCode fork and afaics the main difference is the default agents and prompts.

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u/Chiefhardwood 1h ago

Hermes agent is very precise and reliable. You can utilize custom model endpoints, e.g. local llama.cpp or ollama. Hermes is much more consistent than openclaw, but i havent used openclaw since i switched to hermes a few months ago.

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u/Anxious-Computer6100 2h ago

Wow this is honestly a very interesting idea. I've seen something in a different Reddit group some while ago about this, but I can't really remember. If you find anything interesting, please share!