Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex
10 members list Claude Code, up 10 in the last 12 weeks
2 members list OpenAI Codex, up 2 in the last 12 weeks
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Installs, yearly
Claude Code: Homebrew analytics installs: 1,173,923 installs (2026)
OpenAI Codex: Homebrew analytics installs: 1 install (2026)
Imported from Homebrew analytics
Series only one of them has
Mentions, monthly
Claude Code: Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2024) to 1,667 mentions (2026). Imported from Hacker News mentions.
Installs, monthly
Claude Code: Homebrew analytics installs: 79,995 installs (2026). Imported from Homebrew analytics.
Downloads, monthly
Claude Code: npm downloads: 147,648 downloads (2025) to 82,199,042 downloads (2026). Imported from npm downloads.
Questions asked, monthly
Claude Code: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 1 question (2025) to 4 questions (2026). Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer.
Usage share, yearly
Claude Code: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 9.75 % of respondents (2025). Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey.
Pageviews, monthly
Claude Code: Wikipedia pageviews: 3 views (2024) to 132,501 views (2026). Imported from Wikipedia pageviews.
Who uses both?
2 members list both Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
1 member moved from Claude Code to OpenAI Codex and 0 from OpenAI Codex to Claude Code in September 2026.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.
Paired with both
Only with Claude Code
Only with OpenAI Codex
Which moves use Claude Code?
- Session summaries beat context decay like coffee beats my ability to function by Sam Rivera
- Throw away your prototype code and rewrite it on purpose by Marcus Cole
- Ask for the plan first, edit never by Elif Yilmaz