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by SunshineTheCat 75 days ago
I ping pong back and forth between claude code and codex.

In my experience (very subjective, obviously) for backend/"logical" tasks Codex seems to outperform Claude.

For front-end/UX related tasks Claude wins easily.

Overall, Claude does seem to be a little better in other areas too.

Codex's biggest advantage in my personal opinion, however, is usage. I think maybe once in several months did I even get close to hitting my limit with the $20 plan.

With Claude, however, I feel like I can sneeze and half my weekly usage is gone. Same $20 price tag.

That's been my experience, I'm sure it differs user to user though.

2 comments

I have never heard someone complimenting claude on frontend lol. To each their own though, fair play.
nice, I have been hearing about Codex a lot, so I will def try it