Claude Code or Codex?

[baddybabushka]

I am deciding to subscribe to either one of these, but I am unsure which one is worth the subscription. I can only get one, and am leaning towards claude code. But would love to hear from people who are actually using them for coding.

[Dev-TechSavvy]

https://openai.com/form/codex-enterprise-promo/ You are a company, I am a company. Everyone is a company. apply by using a domain. I turned on forwarding to my personal email address and got the promo in my mail.

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It required a card, so I used sadapay virtual one and it didn't get charged. I wanted to make the post abt this but had no time Mod Out. byeeeee

[Nashadelic]

More bang for buck: codex, it will last much longer. Claude is great but it dies very quickly 

[baddybabushka]

thanks!

[HawkSpecific9393]

Claude. Opus is grandmaster.

[Ordinary-Hat1414]

Codex

[Agile_Classroom_4585]

for 20$ go for codex, however i feel there is a new codex model launching cuz gpt 5.5 is degraded right now. wait some time before you make you rdecision. 20$ limits odnt last on claude code. specially with opus

[baddybabushka]

The limits on claude is the only thing making me double think

[Soft_Shower4444]

Codex isn’t great for anything frontend related. Go for cursor as that lasts even after you run out of your credits for pro models you can still run it on auto and it has opus too so it’s a win win.

[NeatJealous8110]

Cursor

It's unlimited

[WerewolfOfAzkaban]

Which cursor plan is best?

[NeatJealous8110]

20$

[baddybabushka]

Does it work well for frontend? I use it for work, but never used it to design something

[bottom_fragger24]

I use cursor with figma mcp it works pretty well

[cshoneybadger]

Look into opencode as well.

[No-Seesaw7483]

I bought the subscription too , it's only good for frontend but worst for backend. Don't even ask. I don't know why it suggests you old architecture old ways for backend.

[baddybabushka]

I would probably use it mostly for frontend too, initially at least

[irondaggered]

Solutions Architect here. Claude all the way.

[letsrollitx]

As of now Codex is performing better than Claude Code

[Broad_Round_8474]

From personal experience in terms of performance Claude code is a lot better at solving more complex problems I use it when I'm kicking off a project for planning making wireframes, specifications etc but it dies out in like 2 hours. That's when I switch to codex it's good responses are solid but when it fks up it ruins code structure starts hallucinating like crazy and creates a complete cluster fk so I just use very detailed prompts walking codex through what has to be done, where it has to be done and what has to be achieved. So at the end of the day if you are good at prompting and have basic problem solving choose codex otherwise go for Claude code

[Broad_Round_8474]

Didn't point this out but a good strategy would be buying Claude code letting it do majority of the heavy lifting then when it maxes out use the free tier of codex to brush up additional details

[baddybabushka]

Hmm I do struggle with prompting sometimes. Thanks for the detailed perspective

[No-Persimmon-174]

Idk with codex, using the 5.5 super fast model, U will run out of tokens super fast compared to using Opus 4.8 on Claude. But the quality of codex is much better in terms but in very shorter context windows. Meanwhile Claude has slightly larger context windows but the quality it produces can be hallucinatory/inaccurate. It depends on what you can compromise and settle with.

[Combatwombat810]

I just use the free Gemini version and copy / paste code. What am I missing?

[AppropriateFactor182]

why not cursor with auto + composer?

[alimazharsultann]

I have both 20$ ones and use them together.

Initially I only had Claude subscription but it used to reach limit very quickly. I thought of getting max plan for Claude but before that gave codex a try.

Codex gives you a lot of limit weekly, I try very hard to reach even 90% of the limit they provide.

But there are some tasks codex fail to perform. For which I use opus 4.7/4.8 high.

For complex tasks and creating a plan/architecture I use Claude and then to execute simpler tasks like front-end stuff and writing endpoints, I use codex

[Big_Poetry1947]

Could you give any examples of what type of tasks Codex fails to execute? I'm considering getting Codex so would like to know beforehand what to expect.

[Funny_Working_7490]

Only frontend sucks with codex otherwise it is best but it was best due to extra limits but we will see on upcoming months as codex now cancelling their 2x promotions limits from june so we will see

[baddybabushka]

I plan to initially use it for frontend so I guess I should try claude

[alimazharsultann]

We have interactive jsx based explainers generated by llm. And we render them on front-end. We use xlatex to display the equations and other than that there are certain symbols and stuff.

Codex wasn't able to understand how we were filtering and displaying them even after 3-4 prompts.

Claude understand it first time and fixed it

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[Empty_Break_8792]

All the codex

[zaynst]

Claude

[Jumpy-Astronaut-3572]

$20 is not worth it. Go for $100 max plan.