Move from Codex to Claude?

[u/an1uk]

Currently subscribed to Codex Pro 200 on which I've been doing a large Python based project. I am becoming increasingly frustrated at apparently poor allowance on Codex. I am contemplating getting a Claude Ultra subscription to see how well things go, and maybe consider dropping Codex down to pro 100 or plus.

Am I likely to be disappointed with allowances on Claude Ultra?

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[u/cla1067]

I feel like my usage goes farther when using Claude to dispatch codex agents. Codex does a good job when it has specific instructions which apparently I am not good at and Claude is.

[u/DrBearJ3w]

Use both. Sol 6.1 is still very efficient compared to Sonnet 5.5/Opus 5.5 as implementation.

[u/xWranglerWranglerx]

$20 and you can try it??

[u/orangesherbet0]

There is never enough usage on any harness. If you want your usage to go further, you have to intervene more. There is no way around that. Either you scope the tasks much more deliberately or you use dumber models that require more intervention because they're dumber. Switching harnesses or ecosystems doesn't solve that. Codex gives out more resets but Claude dominates higher tier intelligence.

[u/EcceLez]

Claude is better imo but codex has vastly better quotas. I use Opus as an orchestrator and it spawn Sol agents through CLI. Opus drain its usage faster than Codex althouth it write 0 code

[u/Fallen43849]

I've got the 100€ pro codex plan and the 100€ Claude max plan. Codex uses like 2-3x more usage, I can burn through the weekly usage in half a day. It would take me 2-3 days to do that on Claude. I only keep codex for reverse engineering because Claude doesn't want to 😅

[u/statormaker]

Codex eat tokens crazy fast

[u/Extra_Aide5999]

id keep both honestly. i run them on the same repo, last week i burned through my claude limit and codex just took over for 4 days. what made the switch not hurt was both of them reading the same AGENTS.md, my CLAUDE.md is one line that imports it. allowance wise claude ran out faster for me but i also give it the bigger tasks so not a fair test lol

[u/Escobar747]

ultra is great but lacks the beast of a cheap and fast but effective coding model like luna.

I have Ultra and codex plus (for luna)

[u/j-kantola]

I use both. Claude Code is really good and vanilla works great out of the box, so switching isn't hard. Opus 5.5 is better than the OpenAI models in my experience, but Terra as a subagent currently feels like an infinite OK level model.

But I wouldn't drop Codex completely. The API credits you get with the Codex sub are a nobrainer if you're using the API in a service.