--- title: "Cursor vs OpenCode — AI hype compared · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/compare/cursor-vs-opencode as_of: 2026-10-29 updated: 2026-10-30T16:24:07Z --- # Cursor vs OpenCode [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Compare](https://abovethefog.app/compare.md) › Cursor vs OpenCode [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) and [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Cursor is 🚀 Rising with a hype score of 25 and OpenCode is 🚀 Rising with 28. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors. **Data note:** 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12. ## At a glance | Measure | Cursor | OpenCode | |---|---|---| | Stage | 🚀 Rising | 🚀 Rising | | Hype score | 25.2 | 28.1 | | 7-day change | +20.2 | −8.5 | | In hype since | Oct 29, 2026 | Oct 28, 2026 | | Peak, 30 days | 45.5 on Oct 13, 2026 | 74.3 on Oct 19, 2026 | | Stories in 7 days | 167 | 88 | | Share of voice, 7 days | 1.5% | 0.7% | | Sources above normal | 2 of 18 | 2 of 20 | | Category | 🤖 Agents | 🤖 Agents | ## Hype score, last 30 days Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Cursor is the solid line and OpenCode the dashed one. | Day | Cursor | OpenCode | |---|---:|---:| | Oct 29, 2026 | 25.2 | 28.1 | | Oct 28, 2026 | 8.9 | 25.1 | | Oct 27, 2026 | 0.4 | 14.5 | | Oct 26, 2026 | 0 | 13.3 | | Oct 25, 2026 | 0 | 1.8 | | Oct 24, 2026 | 0 | 14 | | Oct 23, 2026 | 5 | 44.9 | | Oct 22, 2026 | 5 | 36.6 | | Oct 21, 2026 | 15.6 | 35 | | Oct 20, 2026 | 22.2 | 53.7 | | Oct 19, 2026 | 9.3 | 74.3 | | Oct 18, 2026 | 9.6 | 67.5 | | Oct 17, 2026 | 12.3 | 59.7 | | Oct 16, 2026 | 40.6 | 25.5 | | Oct 15, 2026 | 35.8 | 55.7 | | Oct 14, 2026 | 32.6 | 25.6 | | Oct 13, 2026 | 45.5 | 20.6 | | Oct 12, 2026 | 29.5 | 4.5 | | Oct 11, 2026 | 17.5 | 2.5 | | Oct 10, 2026 | 35.3 | 0 | | Oct 9, 2026 | 27.4 | 8.9 | | Oct 8, 2026 | 30.9 | 12.5 | | Oct 7, 2026 | 27.6 | 11.4 | | Oct 6, 2026 | 28.4 | 12.1 | | Oct 5, 2026 | 25.4 | 25.9 | | Oct 4, 2026 | 26.6 | 0 | | Oct 3, 2026 | 15.2 | 0 | | Oct 2, 2026 | 26.6 | 1.6 | | Oct 1, 2026 | 27.5 | 3.1 | | Sep 30, 2026 | 28.4 | 1.8 | ## Shared themes What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes): - [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 49% of Cursor’s stories, 69% of OpenCode’s - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 16% of Cursor’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 50% of Cursor’s stories, 12% of OpenCode’s - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 11% of Cursor’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 4% of Cursor’s stories, 34% of OpenCode’s ## Cursor: stories behind it 1. [Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683) — Hacker News (phorion.io) · Oct 30 · score 230 · 328 comments 2. [Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301983) — Hacker News (doublepulsar.com) · Oct 30 · score 393 · 1 comment 3. [Show HN: Arsaze – Cursor for video editing \(Tab-complete and agent edits\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300618) — Hacker News (arsaze.com) · Oct 30 · score 60 · 0 comments 4. [Will agentic coding harnesses \(Claude Code, Codex, Cursor\) stay locked to their parent models, or will we get cross-model support?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1xhzgyi/) — Reddit (r/Anthropic) · Oct 28 · score 2 · 12 comments 5. [PSA / Warning: Switched to "The X Subscription" on Cursor Ultra — Claude/OpenAI revoked, support admitted lack of transparency in writing, yet refused rollback/refund \(FTC Report filed\)](https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1xhsrgm/) — Reddit (r/cursor) · Oct 28 · score 6 · 8 comments ## OpenCode: stories behind it 1. [Same DeepSeek model, Same harness but very different experience on Deepinfra and Opencode version](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1xhxrde/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 8 · 10 comments 2. [Qwen2.5-Coder 7B outputs tool calls as text in OpenCode](https://www.reddit.com/r/ollama/comments/1xi0q1u/) — Reddit (r/ollama) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 3 comments 3. [I built do-it, a roadmap-driven workflow for Claude Code and OpenCode, and I've been dogfooding it on four or five large projects](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xi3yao/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 2 comments 4. [Why Saying ‘Hi’ to Our OpenCode Agent Used 177,000 Tokens](https://dev.to/oorestisime/why-saying-hi-to-our-opencode-agent-used-177000-tokens-5hj7) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 2 comments 5. [Show HN: MCP bridge for chat between OpenCode and Claude Code sessions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289122) — Hacker News (github.com) · Oct 29 · score 2 · 0 comments ## More comparisons - [Antigravity vs Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/compare/antigravity-vs-cursor.md) - [Claude Code vs Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/compare/claude_code-vs-cursor.md) - [Cognition vs Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/compare/cognition-vs-cursor.md) - [Cursor vs GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/compare/cursor-vs-github_copilot.md) - [OpenAI Codex vs Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/compare/codex-vs-cursor.md) - [Antigravity vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/antigravity-vs-opencode.md) - [Claude Code vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/claude_code-vs-opencode.md) - [DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-opencode.md) - [GitHub Copilot vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/github_copilot-vs-opencode.md) - [Grok Build vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/grok_build-vs-opencode.md) - [OpenAI Codex vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/codex-vs-opencode.md) --- Updated Oct 30, 2026, 16:24 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/compare/cursor-vs-opencode) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)