Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal and IDE: understands the codebase, edits files, runs commands.
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OpenAI's coding agent across CLI, IDE extension, ChatGPT and cloud, with automatic PR review.
Website| Field | Claude Code | OpenAI Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Tier | S · provisional | S · provisional |
| Why | Benchmark-setting terminal agent and one of the most-starred coding-agent repos (150k+). | Open-source CLI (129k+ stars) plus first-party OpenAI models, included in ChatGPT plans. |
| Pricing | paid (via Claude plans or API) · starts at $20/mo (Claude Pro; $17/mo annual) | included in ChatGPT plans · starts at $20/mo (ChatGPT Plus) |
| GitHub stars | 151,056 | 129,388 |
| Last push | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Last verified | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |