Grok vs Codex

What 9 creators said when they picked between the two, from podcasts and YouTube. Updated Oct 18, 2026.

Short answer

Creators are split: 3 prefer Grok, 2 prefer Codex. 4 use both.

3 prefer Grok 4 use both 2 prefer Codex

Which is better for…

Agents and automation Close 1 pick Grok · 1 pick Codex · 2 use both

Only counts creators who compared the two for that job.

What creators use each for

Job Grok Codex
Coding 9 84
Agents and automation 22 44
Research 26 6
Personal assistant 14 13
Business ops 10 11
Writing 3 9
Design and UI 3 7
Learning 2 4

Creators who said they use or recommend each one for that job.

What creators say

Picks Grok · 3

"I think the magic of Grok Bot, if I had to tell you one thing that is the magic of Grok Bot, it is plugins. The one killer feature is that for any one of these connectors — whether it's Gmail or Slack or an MCP — you can connect multiple..."

Claire Vo

"I personally noticed I've moved a lot of my use cases from co-work and Codex into Grok Bot just very quickly. Interestingly, Codex went the other direction — it's like a different path and a different product, but interestingly they're l..."

LR Lenny Rachitsky

"Grok 4.5 is just my workhorse. I just think that everyone should just be plugging this into their current stack, connecting it to their tools, and seeing what it could do. I show no loyalty to any lab — I have them all — and when I tell ..."

NV Nick Vasilescu

Uses both · 4

"I'm horse racing all of these — I have Grokbot doing it, Codex doing it, all the action-taking. I want to know: make me better at my job, look at everything I do, give me recommended automations you can do."

GB Gavin Baker

"On the personal side, in Grok Bot, I use Grok Bot and I have a lot of coaches, right? And for whatever reason that mental model works really well for me, maybe because it maps to humans."

WW Willie Williams

"There's no way you can run this on a $200 per month subscription with Codex or Claude Code. In Squad you can just add multiple Codex subscriptions."

TL Tibo Louis-Lucas

"For me, I use Claude and Codex and products like that in a different part of the system. They're going to help me build the repo and generate the landing pages, writing scripts, building the little internal tools."

Greg Isenberg

Picks Codex · 2

"It went to Grok. It went to Codex and it basically came back and says this is the answer. And you can see here Grok was unable to actually do the web portion for some reason. But then Codex cited Apple naming guidance and actually went t..."

TC Trevin Chow

"My lead agent is Codex because I use it the most and it has all of my skills. Another thing that Codex has is computer use — its computer use is the best, so I will rely on it the most. Codex really knows me. Codex has all my memory, I u..."

Riley Brown

Who's switching

Codex → Grok
1 creator said they moved

Lenny Rachitsky

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.