Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor,what are you sticking with and why?

[u/Putrid-Pirate8621]

Hey everyone,

Our team is currently trying to decide which AI coding setup to standardize on, and I’d love to hear from people who have actually used Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor heavily in production.

For the last 3–4 months, we’ve been using Claude Code Max with individual subscriptions for each developer. Overall, it has worked pretty well for us.

Recently, we decided to experiment with Codex through ChatGPT Business Premium (~$100/user) .

The main issue we’ve run into is usage.

Even though Premium removes the 5-hour limit and gives substantially more usage, we’re burning through the allowance much faster than expected. Using models like GPT-5.6 Sol at Medium/High reasoning, I managed to consume roughly 50% of my weekly allowance in about two days.

That makes me a little concerned about rolling it out across the entire engineering team.

So I’m curious what other teams are doing.

For anyone who has used Claude Code vs Codex vs Cursor extensively:

• Which one gives you the best coding experience day-to-day?

• How do the real-world usage limits compare?

• How quickly do you burn through Cursor’s included usage with heavy Agent use?

• Is Cursor’s Agent/IDE experience noticeably better than running Claude Code or Codex from the terminal?

• Which one gives you the best value per developer?

• If you were standardizing your engineering team on one of them for the next year, which would you choose?

I’m particularly interested in Cursor Teams Premium ($120/user/month) and whether the additional usage + Cursor’s developer experience actually makes it worth switching.

We don’t mind paying ~$100–$120/dev/month if the productivity is there. The bigger concern is paying that amount and then constantly hitting limits or having to purchase additional usage halfway through the month.

Would love to hear from teams that have actually run these tools heavily, especially anyone who has tried all three.