Claude vs Codex
What 34 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.
Short answer
Creators are split: 7 prefer Claude, 7 prefer Codex. 20 use both. Codex wins on agents. Coding is close.
Which is better for…
Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.
What creators use each for
| Job | Claude | Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 74 | 84 |
| Agents and automation | 78 | 44 |
| Business ops | 64 | 11 |
| Writing | 49 | 9 |
| Research | 48 | 6 |
| Personal assistant | 24 | 13 |
| Design and UI | 27 | 7 |
| Brainstorming | 27 | 5 |
Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.
What creators say
Picks Claude · 7
"Claude took ChatGPT's job. We've just fired Codex and we've hired Claude."
BS Balaji Srinivasan"It had to copy Anthropic and catch up via Codex to Anthropic's Claude and Claude for code. So it's running a little bit late."
AW Alexander Wissner-Gross"Right now you've got a reasoning layer that's dominated by Claude and Codex and Gemini... for this part of the workflow, let's use Claude. They're expensive tokens, but they're going to get the job done better."
JM Jerry Murdock"I just can't get around how good Claude Design is for carrying forward a design system. Codex is hilariously bad at design. Devin is terrible at design. So I always have to go back to Claude Design. I downloaded the design file, gave it ..."
Ryan Carson
Uses both · 20
"I have both. I just have a Claude Max plan and a Codex Max plan."
Liam Ottley
"It's probably 50/50 right now between Codex and Claude. And that's obviously changed a lot. Like I think 5 months ago I would have said it was mostly Claude. But the new Codex is really good."
JG Jean-Denis Grèze"I still use Claude for a lot of my coding tasks. I still use Codex too. But for the daily driver for knowledge work, right now it's just Codex on a MacBook Pro."
BS Bilawal Sidhu"I like to use browser and computer use directly through Claude or in this instance, Codex. You need to have the ChatGPT desktop app or the Claude desktop app installed. You can search for the Codex browser extension or Claude browser ext..."
Claire Vo
Picks Codex · 7
"There is starting to become with Codex and Co-work, but I think Codex is the furthest along on this paradigm. All the work that I do is pretty much in Codex or Co-work."
Every
"From March to June, everyone really moved to Claude, including the creative team, and that's where we actually started to see the creative team vibe coding functionality which we don't have in production. But then we started to see that ..."
AM Alex Mashrabov"I pretty much use Codex for everything. I was like a total Claude fanboy even a few months ago. But I discovered Codex — the browser use is just incredible on Codex. Like half the stuff I use doesn't even have any APIs and I just get to ..."
Peter Yang
"Eight weeks ago I was primarily in Opus and Claude Code — that was my workhorse, like 90% of my time was in it."
TC Trevin ChowWho's switching
Alex Mashrabov, Dan Shipper, Peter Yang, Trevin Chow, and Ryan Petersen
Mike Taylor, Dan Shipper, and Balaji Srinivasan
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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.