Claude Code vs Codex CLI

Claude CodeView

Codex CLIView

MLX Score

4.7

4.8

What it is

Anthropic's coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, an IDE or the Claude app.

OpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal: it reads, edits and runs code in your project folder.

Maker

Anthropic

OpenAI

Kind

Command line · Coding

Price

$20/mo

Your data

Runs in the cloud

Licence

Proprietary

Apache-2.0

Mac

macOS 13.0+

Yes

iPhone

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Get it

Terminal, Homebrew, Website

Terminal, npm, Homebrew, Website

Checked

2026-11-01

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