OpenCode vs Snowflake Cortex CLI

Feature	OpenCode	Snowflake Cortex CLI

Tagline	The open source AI coding agent built for the terminal	Snowflake-native AI coding agent for data engineering
Website	https://opencode.ai	https://snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	May 14, 2025	February 2, 2026
Last Updated	June 28, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	basic	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent; auto-compact	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench	#60 · 51.7% (Terminal-Bench 2.0) ¹
AA Coding Agent Index	61% · Gemini 3.8 Flash (high)	-
Supported Models	OpenCode managed models, 400+ AI models from OpenRouter - OpenAI, Google, Moonshot AI, xAI, Minimax	Snowflake managed models - Claude Opus / Sonnet, GPT 5.2
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT SuperGrok GitHub Copilot OpenCode Go / Zen Ollama Cloud	—
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK) / $10/mo	Free trial / $20/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode	N/A
Development State	active	active