Claude Code
Terminal and IDE agent included with paid Claude plans.
Side by side
Claude Code vs Codex
Both ship a terminal agent tied to a chat subscription, and both also run on the vendor's API key. The included models and the surfaces named on each pricing page are not the same.
Checked 15 Oct 2026. Cells quote the linked official page. Where a page is silent, the cell says Unknown.
Codex
Coding agent included with ChatGPT plans.
Where the recorded cells differ
- Published from. Claude Code: Pro $20/mo. Codex: Free, or Go $8/mo.
- Free tier. Claude Code: No. Codex: Yes.
- CLI. Claude Code: Yes. Codex: Plus and API key.
- MCP. Claude Code: Yes. Codex: Unknown.
- Cloud agent. Claude Code: Web and remote. Codex: Plus, not API key.
Matrix
| Field | Claude Code | Codex |
|---|---|---|
| Published from | Pro $20/mosource Monthly Pro. Annual Pro is $17/month billed as $200 up front. Free does not include Claude Code. | Free, or Go $8/mosource Codex is included on Free. Go is the lowest paid plan at $8/month. |
| Free tier | Nosource Claude Code is No on Free and Yes from Pro upward. The Claude Free plan itself is $0. | Yessource Free is $0 and includes Codex for quick tasks, with the desktop model note above. |
| Open source | Nosource Distributed as Anthropic's product. The pages reviewed do not publish an open-source license for Claude Code. | Nosource Included with ChatGPT plans or billed as API usage. No open-source license is stated on the pricing page. |
| Agent edits code | Yessource The product page describes planning, writing code, running tests, and opening pull requests, and says it asks before changing files or running commands. | Yessource The page describes local and cloud coding tasks, code review, and an agent that can finish an in-progress turn after a limit is hit. |
| Inline completion | Unknownsource The product page reviewed does not describe inline tab completion. | Unknownsource Composer predictions are a row in the feature table. The icons were not captured, so inline completion is not marked yes or no. |
| CLI | Yessource Terminal is a primary surface. | Plus and API keysource Plus lists the CLI. The API-key card lists the CLI. Free and Go cards do not name the CLI. |
| Bring your own key | Yessource A Claude Console account runs Claude Code at standard API pricing. The product FAQ warns that an API key in the environment is billed as API usage instead of the subscription. | Yessource API key access is a documented way to run Codex, billed at API pricing, without cloud features. |
| MCP | Yessource The FAQ says Claude Code can use MCP servers, with GitHub given as an example. | Unknownsource MCP is a row on the feature table. Checkmarks were not captured in this pass, so plan availability is unknown here. |
| Cloud agent | Web and remotesource Web, mobile, and desktop access are listed. The FAQ also says Claude Code runs locally in the terminal and talks to model APIs without a remote code index. A separate always-on cloud VM product is not named. | Plus, not API keysource Plus lists cloud integrations. The API-key card says there are no cloud features. Free and Go cards do not mention cloud. |
| Team or enterprise admin | Yessource Team and Enterprise tables list central billing, SSO, and, on Enterprise, SCIM, audit logs, and role-based access. | Yessource Business prose names a workspace, SAML SSO, and MFA. Enterprise prose names SCIM, RBAC, and audit logs. |
Pricing
Claude Code
- — Free. Free
- — Pro. Monthly, or $17/month annual ($200 up front).
- — Max. Monthly. 5x or 20x more usage than Pro.
- — Team. Monthly and annual. Dollar seat price not published on the page reviewed.
- — Enterprise. Annual. Self-serve or sales.
- — Console API. Pay as you go
Codex
- — Free. Free
- — Go. Monthly
- — Plus. Monthly
- — Pro. Monthly. Ultrafast mode is named on Pro $500.
- — Business. 2 or more users. Annual billing is mentioned. Annual price not extracted.
- — Enterprise and Edu. Sales or agreement. Flexible pricing is described as credit-based with no fixed rate limits.
- — API key. Pay for tokens