Claude Code vs Codex
What 31 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
Creators are split: 5 prefer Claude Code, 6 prefer Codex. 20 use both. Codex wins on coding.
Which is better for…
Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.
What creators use each for
| Job | Claude Code | Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 106 | 84 |
| Agents and automation | 46 | 44 |
| Business ops | 11 | 11 |
| Personal assistant | 3 | 13 |
| Research | 8 | 6 |
| Design and UI | 6 | 7 |
| Writing | 4 | 9 |
| Data and spreadsheets | 4 | 6 |
Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.
What creators say
Picks Claude Code · 5
"It's a little bit of Codex usage. It's not that big. I would say Claude Code is number one, then Cursor, then Codex."
Cliff Weitzman
"I do recommend Claude Code to be honest. I've used every other platform before — I use Manus, I use ChatGPT, and Codex is pretty good too. But Claude Code is so good. It's like really, really good. I did everything with Claude Code and w..."
SL Sandy Lee"It had to copy Anthropic and catch up via Codex to Anthropic's Claude and Claude for code."
AW Alexander Wissner-Gross"Pick one of the agents to drive with. I've mainly been driving with Claude, which is actually interesting because I have some other reservations about Anthropic. But the reason I'm sticking with Claude is, in my opinion, they actually ha..."
David Heinemeier Hansson
Uses both · 20
"I just love my desktop apps of Codex and Claude Code. So, I live there."
Claire Vo
"All of my company's knowledge sits in one folder on GitHub so I can plug that into Claude Code or Codex and swap in any kind of coding agent that I want."
Liam Ottley
"In green this is Codex or ChatGPT for work, and in orange it's Claude Code. You can see my level of use has not really changed. I'm mostly using Codex, but then if I look at the number of tokens, my use of Claude jumped dramatically."
Dan Shipper
"The harness might be OpenClaw, Hermes agent, Claude Code, or Codex. Codex, Claude Code, whatever — any of them will do 99% of this."
Garry Tan
Picks Codex · 6
"When you power Codex and you're able to be so much faster, if you're Claude code, are you not like ah bugger? We posted Kimmy K2, 6.7x faster than the next fastest GPU cloud."
AF Andrew Feldman"Whenever I'm working on user-facing stuff, I have it synced to my Mac. I'll just jump on the Codex app. And to your point, with browser, with the computer use and stuff like that, evidence-driven testing just becomes super, super powerful."
Ras Mic
"I've been using Codex a lot more and it's mainly because of the Codex app itself is so incredible in its functionality. Mobile support is at a completely different level — you can see all the sessions across all your devices on your mobi..."
HH Hamel Husain"Codex has been maybe the single greatest improvement. Having a non-technical background, having the terminal and the browser directly in the chat interface and just having such a powerful model like 5.5 — you could just feel the compute,..."
NQ Natalia QuinteroWho's switching
Hamel Husain, Dan Shipper, Peter Yang, Natalia Quintero, and Riley Brown
Related
How this works: we read every podcast and YouTube transcript we track, find each time a creator compared these tools, and note which one they picked. A creator who picked differently at different times, or said they use both, counts as "use both". Sponsored mentions are left out. More about Followed.