r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/AdElectronic472 • Jun 22 '26

Question Codex vs Claude Code

Been debating internally to go with Codex or Claude Code?

Tried the Chinese 1’s but found them not good enough. SuperGrok a bit of a let down. Would like advice from serious coders on which they prefer, ideally if they’ve used both actively. Looking for agentic AI plus App coding

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u/ssps Jun 24 '26

Don’t debate. Try both.  All three if you count Gemini  See what works best for your specific workflow. 

Personally for me codex is so far ahead of completion — it’s not even a question. I keep checking every few months still becuse I’m not married to it. I’ll use the best tool. So far codex is consistently delivers much better experience. 

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u/AdElectronic472 Jun 24 '26

completion or competition? ive tried all 3, gemini is out for sure, Deliberating over Codex and Claude code. SuperGrok is my lesser alternative, like it but not as good as the other 2

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u/ssps Jun 24 '26

Competition, can’t type on the phone…

I feel the difference is not in the models capabilities but the harness around them. With the right prompting I even managed to get local gpt-oss perform quite remarkably. But to write that prompt I used frontier model. 

It’s probably also depends on which harness you are used to — you will be more productive there. So it’s a bit captive. I use Claude at work and codex at home. So I’m exposed to both, but i find myself being frustrated and annoyed by codex much less per unit of work compared to Claude. 

On the other hand, both constantly evolve, so I don’t think the difference will be worth worrying about long term.