A new side-by-side measurement shows Claude Code ships roughly 33,000 tokens of system prompt, tool schemas, and scaffolding before your prompt even arrives — about 4. 7x the ~7,000 tokens OpenCode sends on the same setup. The bigger cost surprise is next: Claude Code re-wrote up to 54x more pro...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/terminalblog/claude-code-sends-33k-tokens-before-your-prompt-opencode-sends-7k-4em7)