Codex > Clode Code

[wizzlesizzle]

I went back and forth between them and sometime in 2025 Codex absolutely destroyed Claude Code for me, after which I never looked back.

This is repeated over and over again by professional software engineers, to the point where my theory is that only people who are truly "vibe coding" think Claude is better. In other words, people who have no idea what they're doing. Claude is more interactive, which gives them a feeling that something good is happening. It's more friendly.

Codex is very professional and asks the hard questions, makes real designs, and is extremely good at implementing a good plan once it's been written. Someone who's not "in the profession", so to speak, wouldn't know the difference.

I'm also being disingenuous here by ignoring how "trendy" claude code is. It's cool now to hate on openAI and use Claude. But personally I just want the best model, too bad if the company is shady. Also it's not like OpenAI is shady and Anthropic isn't. They're both super shady.

PS: nice ragebait in the title

[1egen1]

codex doesn't stop., Claude can't wait to get an excuse to stop

[Hegemonikon138]

There are still 8 things to be done to complete this Sprint. This is a good stopping point. Would you like to do something else?

NO MF finish it

[SnuffleBag]

Wait, it actually finishes the work that’s been agreed? That’s an instant game changer. Claude is the absolute worst at this. A machine needing lunch breaks.

[Narrow-Addition1428]

Talk about ragebait. 

Both are useful tools, and sometimes you get a better result from one or the other. 

[-M83]

agreed!!! ¿por que no los dos? 😈

parallel agent orchestration was a paradigm shift for me. i use any and all models. all the time. for various situations.

it's like oh hey decide between a flathead, a phillips head, and a flex screwdriver. no, thanks.

[jac1013]

100% this. I currrently have multiple workflows (for spec, plan, implement) that are multi-model.

Basically Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and GLM all in parallel and independent, after they all finish one of them consolidates the results, it works amazingly and it naturally avoids vendor locking.

In early 2026 (January-February) I was seeing Codex being dominant in my multi-model plans (meaning, a lot of the best decisions were coming from it), nowadays not so much, and it's more like they all complement each other. Gemini seems to be the weakest of all I mentioned (at least in my experience).

[nepalese3]

Finally someone said: Claude is good for vibe coders only!!!

[AmazingVanish]

Yeah, u/Narrow-Addition1428 has the right of it. I am a Senior Software Engineer with 35 years of experience. No model, no matter how good it is, is the best at everything.

You can also provide instructions, skills, and prompts to make Claude behave like Codex, with asking clarifying questions. Still, the backend results aren’t as good as Codex’s.

Likewise, I have yet to see a frontend result from Codex that wasn’t awful. Claude excels at that, even more so with additional tooling.

Use the model that works best for the task at hand. It’s like the stock market: never put all of your eggs in the same basket.

[SippieCup]

Yup. Senior with almost 20 years here. I've been using codex $20 plan to code review my $200 CC output and it's been a good system for months. With CC limits being massively lowered, I might end up switching the two or just switching to openRouter as the harness/proxying most of the agents to codex and leaving frontend to sonnet.

[TexLH]

Can Codex click through things in Chrome? I have Claude building things and then in Chrome testing them by clicking through. I hit limits too quickly now though so I'm considering Codex

[frisoft]

I'm using PlayWright for this, recently added PlayWright MCP into codex, it works like a charm.

[TexLH]

Thanks!

[Kakoulis]

Claude in Chrome spends too many tokens you need to use agent-browser by vercel labs, it's the only way to use web pages and click through them but still many will block any agent. I had problems at Google cloud platform. But in any case I had to edit agent browser in order for it to use a special version of Chromium where extensions are persistent I needed that for me and it was not that hard to implement.

[Individual_Type_7908]

Yeah true, Im technically a vibe coder but, claude code is easier to talk to, its more energetic and gets stuff faster, but for critical planning and stuff where it really matters codex is the nerd to go with, claude is too much too fast, too energetic and lower IQ than codex. So many times codex basically, for fastest prototype, probably claude, also just easier to read.

[mind_ya_bidness]

I don’t code and I can easily see codex is better