{"id":131900,"date":"2026-08-06T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131900\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T18:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T18:08:14","slug":"claude-code-is-the-fastest-agent-framework-but-costs-nearly-three-times-more-than-the-cheapest-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/131900\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Code is the fastest agent framework but costs nearly three times more than the cheapest rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/author\/matthias-bastian\/\" class=\"w-6 h-6 relative rounded-full overflow-hidden shrink-0 bg-gray-400 block   exclude-from-pdf\" title=\"View all posts by Matthias Bastian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Matthias Bastian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/avatar_matthias_bastian.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-24 photo w-6 h-6 left-0 top-0 absolute\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The software wrapper around an AI model has a major impact on what you pay.\u00a0AI tooling company Composio tested\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/new-deepseek-flash-model-matches-openais-gpt-5-6-luna-at-roughly-60-percent-lower-cost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">DeepSeek V4 Flash<\/a> across four agent frameworks (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Oh My Pi) on 30 tasks using real-world tools like Gmail, GitHub, Slack, and Notion. No single framework won across all categories. Oh My Pi had the highest success rate (17\/30) but was the slowest at 272 seconds per task. OpenCode was cheapest at $0.073 per successful task, while Claude Code was fastest at 122 seconds but most expensive at $0.195, despite using the fewest tool calls and generating the least output tokens.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38668 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/harness_review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1628\" height=\"906\"\/>Deepseek V4 Flash tested across four agent frameworks on 30 real-world tasks. Success rates were similar, but cost and speed varied widely. | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/composio\/status\/2085330847951970801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Image: Composio via X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While seven tasks passed or failed based solely on which framework ran them, overall success rates stayed close. Only OpenCode trailed slightly at 14\/30. The real gaps were in cost and speed, with nearly a 3x price difference and a 2.2x speed difference depending on the framework.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tAI News Without the Hype \u2013 Curated by Humans<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive &#8220;AI Radar&#8221; frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/the-decoder.com\/subscription\/\" class=\"inline-block text-white bg-(--heise-primary) mt-3 hover:bg-blue-800 focus:ring-4 focus:outline-none focus:ring-blue-300 font-medium rounded-sm w-full sm:w-auto  pl-3 pr-3 py-2.5 text-center newsletter-submit-button hover:no-underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe now\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The software wrapper around an AI model has a major impact on what you pay.\u00a0AI tooling company Composio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2069,179,53,3154,182,6010,11482,1627],"class_list":["post-131900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-agent","tag-agentic-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-claude","tag-deepseek","tag-deepseekv4","tag-harness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}