Compare Claude Code and Codex - features, pricing, and which is better for your workflow.
What is Claude Code?
Anthropic's agentic coding tool — Claude in your terminal, IDE, desktop app and browser, reading and editing your codebase, running commands, opening pull requests and working on tasks in the cloud.
Price: Paid
Works in the terminal, VS Code and JetBrains, the Claude desktop app, and on the web
Reads and edits across your whole codebase, runs commands and tests, and opens pull requests
Cloud sessions keep working after you close the laptop; hand off between local and cloud
Skills, hooks, MCP servers and plugins to shape how it works on your projects
Subagents and workflows for parallel, multi-step tasks
Included with Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, or pay as you go on the API