GitHub Copilot vs OpenCode

GitHub Copilot and OpenCode side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: GitHub Copilot is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 20 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

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, GitHub Copilot is the solid line and OpenCode the dashed one.

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 — 77% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 69% of OpenCode’s
• Models — 36% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 34% of OpenCode’s
• Protocols & infra — 23% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s
• Security & safety — 9.1% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 12% of OpenCode’s
• Usage & adoption — 4.5% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 31% of OpenCode’s
• Other tech — 9.1% of GitHub Copilot’s stories, 3.1% of OpenCode’s

GitHub Copilot: stories behind it

1. GitHub Copilot Fusion orchestrates between models at half the cost — Hacker News (twitter.com) · Oct 30 · score 6 · 0 comments
2. GitHub Copilot app, Universe releases — Hacker News (github.blog) · Oct 28 · score 2 · 1 comment
3. GitHub Copilot Fusion — Hacker News (github.blog) · Oct 28 · score 3 · 0 comments
4. GitHub says Copilot Fusion, which handles model selection and orchestration, is now generally available, releases the GitHub Copilot app, and more — Techmeme (The New Stack) · Oct 28
5. AI CodeOps vs GitHub Copilot's Coding Agent: When Each One Fits — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 30 · score 0 · 0 comments

OpenCode: stories behind it

1. Same DeepSeek model, Same harness but very different experience on Deepinfra and Opencode version — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 8 · 10 comments
2. Qwen2.5-Coder 7B outputs tool calls as text in OpenCode — 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 — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 2 comments
4. Why Saying ‘Hi’ to Our OpenCode Agent Used 177,000 Tokens — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 2 comments
5. Show HN: MCP bridge for chat between OpenCode and Claude Code sessions — Hacker News (github.com) · Oct 29 · score 2 · 0 comments

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