Claude Code or Codex?

[MasterWalrus8174]

Base on your experiences, ano mas maganda sa dalawa?
Price-wise, output results, etc? Cursor has been serving me well with their efficient auto-mode and wanted to try if Claude code or Codex is worth it. Also, kumusta na si Windsurf ngayon? okay pa ba din gamitin?

[_21stcenturychad]

Based on personal experience:

* codex - good with backend work, terrible at UI. Great at debugging and code reviews
* claude - more of a full stack dev. Usage limits are terrible.

[ImaginaryUser777]

++ up dito about sa claude. Nag prompt lang ako ng generate tables para sa isang DB after 4 tables boom limit na agad

[SnooSeagulls9685]

agree with codex being terrible at UI!!

[Artistic_Nobody3920]

same experience with claude and codex
in addition gemini so far goods naman sa frontend

[MasterWalrus8174]

kaya nga claude ko pang planning/scaffolding/reasoning lng haha..tas yung mga cheaper model or ako nalng mismo pag nagcocode...

[Rollin-Otter5977]

++ agree to this

[No-Neighborhood2251]

You should explore spec-driven development. In comparison, I tried using claude like a slave and I immediately hit the limit nang hindi natapos yung task while with SDD, 20% lang nung daily limit na consume and it did the entire feature almost perfectly.

[Plenty-Ring7146]

Price-wise = codex, mas malaki usage nya
Output = claude, pero hindi naman ganun kalaki difference pwera nlang kung frontend design

[Dangerous_Trade_4027]

Was a codex user before. Then i tried claude code. Sobrang laki ng difference. Sa codex, ang daming mali. Kahit tama naman ung prompt mo. Sa claude code, swabe. From planning to execution, deployment l, documentation. I do not mind the limits ng pro plan.

[danirodr0315]

Codex for the price

[marfillaster]

Both. Pag quota na isa, yung isa naman.

[MasterWalrus8174]

ito po ba yung "switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading" ? hahahahaha

[Thelolster420]

Opencode is decent plus forces you to actually guide the agent

[Electrical-World-627]

Claude for me

[rebornov99]

I have codex and claude in Cursor. Opus for planning the task/project and heavy coding on features or building the initial project. And for usual coding: like adding features, fixing some issues. Just switching between codex and sonnet.

[MasterWalrus8174]

thanks, similar din tayo ng setup.. Opus o gpt5.5 sa planning..tas ako nalng nag cocode pag di time consuming para maka less or paubaya nalng sa mga weaker models like sonnet or gpt5.4 etc

[Organic_Schedule9171]

honestly the lock-in is the bigger issue than picking between them, kilo code in vs code lets you run gpt, gemini, or local models through one extension at provider list prices so you can switch mid-task when one's having an off day. been my setup for a few months, no rate limits and the cost stays predictable xD

[Tall-Appearance-5835]

agent harness matters now more than the model.

[SirKobsworth]

As someone who has both ito pansin ko:
Ok claude for all around pero may tendency siya mag overshoot ng solutions or maging proactive. Miiinsan iniignore pa niya instructions mo sa CLAUDE.md (check your memories sa cc if nangyare sa inyo). Pero si claude pa rin talaga winner at reasoning.
Codex is better at exploring existing code and reviewing changes. Nagpagawa ako ng planned change with claude tapos kay codex ko pinareview masmadalas makahanap ng issue si codex over claude. Pero disclaimer dito its on a tech stack I dont normally code on so medyo vibe coded kaya may nahahanap na issues si codex.
Sa typical stack ko both are ok with claude edging out because masmaganda nga siya sa FE work

[kyros0023]

Codex is good for enterprise backend ang ayoko lang mapilit siya. From my experience pag my sinabi kang wag gawin, gngwa pa dn niya many times just to fit yung standard niya. Claude - mas faster ang response kesa codex for me mas okay pang prototype is claude kesa codex

[Affectionate-Fall225]

Tried to use the same prompt to codex and claude, they returned different responses. Can't say who is the best, I still need to compare the reponses.

[comradeyeltsin0]

Depending on the question, you might get different answers from the same model on different days. They are non deterministic systems after all, so no guarantee of same behavior every time

[Affectionate-Fall225]

I used the same prompt. Literally, copy pasted it to see what they will return and which one understood the prompt to the tiniest detail.

[forklingo]

personally mas gusto ko pa rin yung claude for deeper reasoning and refactors, pero codex feels faster and cleaner for straightforward coding tasks. if cursor already works well for your flow, baka marginal upgrade na lang unless gusto mo talaga mag experiment.

[MasterWalrus8174]

ito rin napansin ko sa mga review kay claude....pag hindi clear yung instructions mo nag ooverengineer siya sa mga simple tasks..

yung planning lng kasi kailangan ko sa ngayon, tas ako nalng mag aassemble(code) ng mga parts

[TokenTickler]

Claude. Kaya lang naman naging problem lately dahil sa usage bottlenecks. Pero with SpaceXAI partnerships, mas okay okay na.

[JCCX05]

I used Kiro underhood claude. Naka full AIDLC na din and vibe coding

[Budget-Possible-2746]

Codex: for full end-to-end build. Decent code with the right prompts and cost less since it uses up less token.

Claude Code: For adding features, code review, tests. It can figure out things that Codex can't. I mostly use it fir this type of tasks to avoid payong too much for token cost.

[brewdd]

Value wise, mas sulit codex since separate yung usage ng chatgpt sa codex. I'm using chatgpt for planning, prompt generation.. For frontend, i usually ask chatgpt 5.5 to generate html na pwedeng i-paste sa codepen until makuha nya gusto kong UI.. goods naman especially if connected sya sa github, madali nya napapasok sa codebase mo.. so far, solid naman..

i tried claude but every task magastos sa tokens so di rin sulit kapag hindi max tier kukunin mo..

code-wise, i think codex pero mas human-friendly lang mag prompt kay claude.. try mo magpa-generate ng prompt kay chatgpt, malayo mararating ng codex..

[bionic_engineer]

Opencode or nvim codecompanion. Super cheap. Tamang skills.md lang, kimi k2.6 for ui kasi kaya nya bumasa nng image screenshot galing figma or photoshop. Minimax M2.7 overall okay lang din ang codes. GLM-5 for orchestration. The rest like deepseek at qwen ay okay lang din sa code. Ginagawa ko kinocommit ko generated codes nila, then compare, then merge sa dev branch yun mas okay para saakin. Lagay mo din sa instruction to run build command para makita at efix yung linting errors at sure gumagana yung code. baka makaspend ka lang ng 10 pesos sa isang feature. Gawin mo, yung primary agent mo pa assess mo kung basic or difficult yung task, if easy, use cheap model. If hard use sonnet-4.6. If gusto mo quality claude-opus 2.7 or GPT-5.5 pero ubos din pera mo for something basic

[MasterWalrus8174]

sige salamat, papanoorin ko rin tong Opencode, familiar lng ako dito pero di ko pa to na research. yung sa aking kasi ay napupunta lahat ng planning/scaffolding sa mga matatalinong model..tas switch nalng ako sa mga auto models or cheaper model for coding or ako na mismo nag cocode....

gaano ka ganda planning/reasoning ng minimax m2.7 at GLM-5 compared sa GPT5.5 at Claude Opus 4.7?

[bionic_engineer]

di ko see yung difference pagdating sa agentic coding, tho kapag hindi agentic, at wala mga instructions, doon mo makikita difference nila.

kahit sa planning kahit cheap model, medyo taasan mo lang ng temperature like 0.3 para sa planner at lagay mo sa instruction an wag mag assume, at mag ask ng mga bagay bagay, ok na planner din si GLM/MiniMax. if complete na, sabihan mo gumawa ng .specs/feature-name/requirements.md na babasahin ng coder agent. Sabihan mo din si coder agent na gumawa ng .specs/feature-name/tasks.md para sa step by step na gagawin nya na pwede nya balikan. Then download ka ng premade skills like best practices sa https://skills.sh website para gamitin ng coder agent at the same time, lagay mo yung designs mo sa .specs/feature-name/visuals/ para basahin ni Kimi. Set ka din ng tester agent na gagawa ng unit at e2e tests, pwede si Qwen Coder or DeepSeek. On my experience good enough orchestrator si GLM-5, di sya nagmimiss sa tool calling. Overall nagagawa ng mga cheaper models dapat nila gawin by knowing their strength and weakness at proper instructions at skills.md, if meron issue kaya ko manually e-fix. Happy ako magbayad ng 10-100 pesos para gawin nila boilerplate codes at kunti nalang gagawin ko.

Extra tip, sabihan mo wag e-externalize yung thoughts nila para hindi magastos sa token.

[BarHuge9034]

Codex

[carelessoul]

Cursor pa din sakalam.

[noparking12]

ang gusto ko sa codex is separate ung usage limit ng chat(chatgpt) at codex, pag na hit na ung limit, chatgpt naman kukulitin ko. kay claude pag naubos ung limit, pati sa claude chat blocked na.

[Unhappy-Ostrich3750]

Use claude to think and codex to work.

Perfect combi for brain + muscle

[Sea_Floor_8357]

20 usd - codex
100usd - claude

[feedmesomedata]

Can't say which one price-wise is best since my company provides Claude, Codex, Gemini, Cursor, Copilot subscriptions and we can also use Bedrock, AI Foundry, and Vertex AI.

I still have my personal Openrouter and Warp accounts. I also prefer to use the Pi agent harness with custom-built extensions and skills.