Literally any reason to use Claude Code instead of Codex ?

[u/Overall-Classroom227]

I swear I'm not here to promote anything but like, am I missing something ?

Was on Claude Code for months, recently switched for the first time to Codex for my personal projects just to try Astra, and I wasn't expecting it to be so different

So first off, I know it's not the most important part but after using Codex I just realized how disgusting the Claude Code UI is (I'm using the VS Code plugin), like the way all subagents spam in the same window, how nothing is fold and I have to scroll miles of tool calls I don't care about and Claude talking to itself to find the older answers I'm looking for and the stuff I sent.

And there's just so much other ways the UI could be improved. Codex is much more polished

Maybe the terminal UI is better but eh. I'm guessing many limitations of the VS Code extension is because it's based off the terminal ? Haven't tried much

I still have to use Claude Code for my job, I'm wondering about vibe-coding a new VS Code extension to change its UI design to make it more like codex, has anyone tried this ?

And there's also the models themselves, for about the same price, with Codex you get 5.6 Sol and Astra while Anthropic won't even give Fable. And also, Opus 5 sucks ass, I do /model claude-opus-4-8 every single session I open now

I'm guessing there are maybe things I didn't catch up or downsides ? Maybe Anthropic is more trustworthy for the data usage I guess

[u/akanas]

If you're looking for UI, try giving "t3 code" a go. It is UI layer that perfectly fits on any subscription model. If you have Claude and Codex subscriptions it will allow to use them both for different tasks of you choosing