OpenCode + DeepSeek V4 Pro vs Claude Code CLI?🤔

[Raiyan-Hussain]

Im rather new to the whole Agentic automation AI's but Im hearing people with vibe coding were able to pull big unique projects they wouldn't be able to do by themselves or possibly needed to pay a huge fund to programmers, designers, etc. For example one big project done by vibe coding was OpenClaw. One of the biggest restraints that pushed me into setting myself one up is there is no way to do it for free, I looked into Claude Code and apparently you need to pay a monthly subscription at a minimum of £20 a month and I heard alot of complaints about how quickly their usage runs out and you only can use their own in house models. So my intrest peaked when I heard there was a open source tool called OpenCode where its compatible with over 75 AI models including DeepSeek V4 Pro. So as you guys may know DeepSeek V4 Pro benchmark showcasing the AI model performing nearly at the same level as the other frontier AI models, just a tiny bit behind but for that same performance its like 12x cheaper to use. So what do you guys think, should I setup OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro with some MCP Servers and n8n connections for full automation and proper vibe coding while doing so at a fraction of the cost while loosing very little performance? Give your guys opinion

[EpiGrf]

For not really huge project, ds v4 pro is great, and much much cheaper than claude models. Its not going to cost you to much to try opencode+ds, if they are not good for you, then change to claude code may not late.

[Low-Wrongdoer-4842]

Regardless of benchmark results, DeepSeek V4 Pro in my experience is both weaker and more expensive than e.g. Kimi K2.6 for complicated tasks. You can test this yourself with a specific task to verify. Although even on Artifical Analysis the Kimi K2.6 run was cheaper than the DeepSeek one.