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title: "Grok Build vs OpenCode — AI hype compared · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/compare/grok_build-vs-opencode
as_of: 2026-10-29
updated: 2026-10-30T16:24:07Z
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# Grok Build vs OpenCode

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[Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md) and [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md) side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Grok Build is 💤 Quiet with a hype score of 1 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 | Grok Build | OpenCode |
|---|---|---|
| Stage | 💤 Quiet | 🚀 Rising |
| Hype score | 0.8 | 28.1 |
| 7-day change | +0.8 | −8.5 |
| In hype since | not in hype now | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Peak, 30 days | 10.4 on Oct 28, 2026 | 74.3 on Oct 19, 2026 |
| Stories in 7 days | 11 | 88 |
| Share of voice, 7 days | 0.1% | 0.7% |
| Sources above normal | 0 of 17 | 2 of 20 |
| Category | 🤖 Agents | 🤖 Agents |

## Hype score, last 30 days

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

| Day | Grok Build | OpenCode |
|---|---:|---:|
| Oct 29, 2026 | 0.8 | 28.1 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | 10.4 | 25.1 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | 0 | 14.5 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 0 | 13.3 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | 0 | 14 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | 0 | 44.9 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | 0 | 36.6 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | 0 | 35 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | 0.5 | 53.7 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 0 | 74.3 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 0 | 67.5 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | 0 | 59.7 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | 0 | 25.5 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 0 | 55.7 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | 2.5 | 25.6 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 0 | 20.6 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 9.4 | 4.5 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 0 | 2.5 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | 0.7 | 0 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | 0.7 | 8.9 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 0 | 12.5 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | 2.4 | 11.4 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 1.8 | 12.1 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 0 | 25.9 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0 | 3.1 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 0 | 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):

- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 67% of Grok Build’s stories, 34% of OpenCode’s
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 33% of Grok Build’s stories, 12% of OpenCode’s

## Grok Build: stories behind it

1. [I added Grok Build to Hellhound, my Windows app where AI agents share one room. Its first minute with Claude and Codex:](https://www.reddit.com/r/grok/comments/1xhpggh/) — Reddit (r/grok) · Oct 28 · score 0 · 3 comments
2. [Giveaway: 3 free Hellhound codes for the best debate topic. What I learned adding Grok Build next to Claude Code: Grok reads Claude's allow rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhsc5r/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 1 comment
3. [Giveaway: 3 free codes for the best debate topics. Hellhound 1.2.0, built with Claude Code, now puts Claude in one room with Codex and Grok](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1xhrtqa/) — Reddit (r/ClaudeAI) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
4. [Codex / Claude / Grok Agent Comparison](https://dev.to/diligence_cs/codex-claude-grok-agent-comparison-4kga) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#agents) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments
5. [NVIDIA Convenes the Open Secure AI Alliance, Citing a Forensics Gap in Closed Models](https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMieEFVX3lxTE13QWsxaElrRVBBLTZFVmNSVlBIOEhjN2ZKU09GcnIxLThoX05UWUZNNm9jakhic3U0ZHFmRjhLM2dYVzQ0WXJhR2hmc2RRelRScFQxNjhRd3pjZEUzSzk4UTVaN3laVjRKQnZ4YjlxSVdPZHRyUzVPVg?oc=5) — Google News (RSS) (OrcaRouter) · Oct 30

## 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

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- [Claude Code vs Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/compare/claude_code-vs-grok_build.md)
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- [GitHub Copilot vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/github_copilot-vs-opencode.md)
- [OpenAI Codex vs OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/compare/codex-vs-opencode.md)

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Updated Oct 30, 2026, 16:24 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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