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Anthropic Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex vs Google Gemini CLI
“Which terminal coding agent do you trust with a real task?”
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- Candidate 1
Anthropic Claude Code
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Claude Code
- Free plan
- Not in Free plan; included in paid plans
- Pro price
- $17/mo annual ($200 up front); $20/mo monthly
- Max price
- From $100/month; 5x or 20x Pro usage
- Team price
- $20/seat/month billed annually; 2 to 150 seats
- Enterprise price
- $20/seat/month plus usage at API rates
- Platforms
- macOS, Linux, Windows; terminal, web, iOS, Android, VS Code, JetBrains, Slack
- Usage limits
- Rolling 5-hour session window; weekly limits on paid plans
- API access
- Console account, pay-as-you-go at standard API pricing
- Fast mode price
- Opus 5.5: $8/$40 per million tokens (research preview)
- Launched as a limited research preview on February 24, 2025, announced with Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
- No separate Claude Code price is published; it is included in paid Claude plans and shares usage limits with chat.
- Prices exclude applicable tax and are subject to change at Anthropic's discretion.
Sources: Claude Code – Claude product page (official) · Claude Pricing (official) · Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code – Anthropic (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 2
OpenAI Codex
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Codex
- Free plan
- $0/month
- Go plan
- $8/month
- Plus plan
- $20/month
- Pro plan
- From $100/month (plans at $100, $200, $500)
- Business plan
- $20/user/month billed annually (2+ users); $25 monthly
- Enterprise & Edu
- Custom pricing; contact sales
- Platforms
- Desktop app, web, CLI, IDE extension, Cloud, iOS
- Models
- GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6 Astra
- Plus local messages per 5h
- Estimates: Luna 350-3,000; 6.1 Sol 15-160; 6.1 Terra 35-285; Astra 5-45
- API key access
- Yes: CLI, SDK, IDE extension; billed at API rates; no cloud features
- Free and Go include limited Codex: GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app only, subject to rollout.
- Plus and Pro users can buy extra ChatGPT credits when they reach usage limits. Pro plans currently have no five-hour…
- GPT-5.5 retires from Codex with ChatGPT sign-in on October 14, 2026; API-key sessions are not affected.
Sources: Codex Pricing | ChatGPT Learn (official docs) (official) · Plans and Pricing | ChatGPT (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
- Candidate 3
Google Gemini CLI
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Gemini CLI
- Free (Google account)
- 1,000 requests/user/day (Gemini Code Assist for individuals)
- Free (Gemini API key)
- 250 requests/user/day, Flash model only
- Google AI Pro
- 1,500 requests/user/day
- Google AI Ultra
- 2,000 requests/user/day
- Code Assist Enterprise
- 2,000 requests/user/day
- Pay-as-you-go
- Gemini API key or Vertex AI; billed per token/call
- Vertex AI Express Mode
- Free, 90 days before billing must be enabled
- Models offered (named)
- gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3.5-flash, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gemini-3.1-flash-lite, gemma-4-31b-it
- Usage check
- /stats model command shows token usage and limits
- Unpaid tier and Google One users were moved to Antigravity CLI on June 18, 2026; the quota page still lists these…
- Gemini CLI has not been optimized for Gemini 4 Argon; the official site directs users to Antigravity for it.
- Google AI Plus and Workspace AI Standard/Plus/Expanded tiers are listed as not supported for CLI use.
Sources: Gemini CLI home page (official) · Gemini CLI quotas and pricing (official) · Gemini CLI plans (official) · Gemini CLI configuration reference (official) · Gemini CLI model selection (/model) (official)
Checked 2026-10-30
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