--- title: "DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode — AI hype compared · Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-opencode as_of: 2026-10-29 updated: 2026-10-30T16:24:07Z --- # DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Compare](https://abovethefog.app/compare.md) › DeepSeek Harness vs OpenCode [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md) and [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: DeepSeek Harness is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 23 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 | DeepSeek Harness | OpenCode | |---|---|---| | Stage | 💤 Quiet | 🚀 Rising | | Hype score | 23.1 | 28.1 | | 7-day change | +2.6 | −8.5 | | In hype since | not in hype now | Oct 28, 2026 | | Peak, 30 days | 31.7 on Oct 20, 2026 | 74.3 on Oct 19, 2026 | | Stories in 7 days | 25 | 88 | | Share of voice, 7 days | 0.2% | 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, DeepSeek Harness is the solid line and OpenCode the dashed one. | Day | DeepSeek Harness | OpenCode | |---|---:|---:| | Oct 29, 2026 | 23.1 | 28.1 | | Oct 28, 2026 | 11.6 | 25.1 | | Oct 27, 2026 | 9.9 | 14.5 | | Oct 26, 2026 | 9.5 | 13.3 | | Oct 25, 2026 | 2 | 1.8 | | Oct 24, 2026 | 9.8 | 14 | | Oct 23, 2026 | 9.8 | 44.9 | | Oct 22, 2026 | 20.5 | 36.6 | | Oct 21, 2026 | 10 | 35 | | Oct 20, 2026 | 31.7 | 53.7 | | Oct 19, 2026 | 19 | 74.3 | | Oct 18, 2026 | 17.2 | 67.5 | | Oct 17, 2026 | 24.8 | 59.7 | | Oct 16, 2026 | 12.1 | 25.5 | | Oct 15, 2026 | 3.9 | 55.7 | | Oct 14, 2026 | 6.1 | 25.6 | | Oct 13, 2026 | 12.7 | 20.6 | | Oct 12, 2026 | 3 | 4.5 | | Oct 11, 2026 | 1.1 | 2.5 | | Oct 10, 2026 | 4.1 | 0 | | Oct 9, 2026 | 11.2 | 8.9 | | Oct 8, 2026 | 3.7 | 12.5 | | Oct 7, 2026 | 0 | 11.4 | | Oct 6, 2026 | 0 | 12.1 | | Oct 5, 2026 | 0.5 | 25.9 | | Oct 4, 2026 | 1.1 | 0 | | Oct 3, 2026 | 1.4 | 0 | | Oct 2, 2026 | 22.4 | 1.6 | | Oct 1, 2026 | 0 | 3.1 | | Sep 30, 2026 | 3.5 | 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) — 75% of DeepSeek Harness’s stories, 69% of OpenCode’s - [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 88% of DeepSeek Harness’s stories, 34% of OpenCode’s - [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 25% of DeepSeek Harness’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s - [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 12% of DeepSeek Harness’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s ## DeepSeek Harness: stories behind it 1. [DeepSeek V5 spotted in DeepSeek Harness tests — are we getting closer to a release?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1xhokec/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 436 · 26 comments 2. [deepseek-harness: Opensource AI Agent Harness \[264k Stars\]](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1xhdvex/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments 3. [DeepSeek Harness is breaking Unity Projects](https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1xjds65/) — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 30 4. [I Tested deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know](https://dev.to/jarynagent/i-tested-deepseek-harness-heres-what-you-need-to-know-c7e) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments 5. [I Tried deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know](https://dev.to/jarynagent/i-tried-deepseek-harness-heres-what-you-need-to-know-4m1b) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 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 - [Claude Code vs DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/compare/claude_code-vs-deepseek_harness.md) - [DeepSeek Harness vs Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-hermes_agent.md) - [OpenAI Codex vs DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/compare/codex-vs-deepseek_harness.md) - [DeepSeek Harness vs OpenClaw](https://abovethefog.app/compare/deepseek_harness-vs-openclaw.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) - [Cursor vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/cursor-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/deepseek_harness-vs-opencode) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)