Just cancelled my Claude "Max" sub.
Not because of the quota drama. Simply because my $20 Codex plan lasts longer than Anthropic's "Max"
I spent a week throwing big refactors, new features, and weird tasks at it, including asking it to analyze Tailwind’s output.css for optimization opportunities.
Final test: launching a huge marketing pipeline with multiple GSC MCP calls and
@coreyhainesco's skills.
It never dropped below 45% of the weekly limit.
Not sure how thats possible. My guess: part of it is Claude Code system prompt being ~27k tokens, versus ~13k in Codex.
P.S. Codex VS Code extension also feels more polished: nicer UI, better diffs, revert/reapply, etc.