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Claude Code uses 33,000 tokens before reading your prompt
An analysis from Systima shows that Claude Code sends significantly more tokens to the Anthropic API before actually processing the user's question, compared to OpenCode. The test documented that Claude Code had poorer cache strategy and higher overhead than the alternative.
WHY IT MATTERS
It affects users' actual costs when using AI coding agents, and suggests that Claude Code's implementation has inefficiencies that make it more expensive to run in practice even though the model's API price is identical.
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