Question 1

Claude Max 20× vs Codex Pro 200 for coding: which gives more building hours per dollar?

Accepted Answer

At p50 peak, Claude Max 20× returns 0.45 building h/week per $/month (90 h/week for $200/mo) and Codex Pro 200 returns 0.10 building h/week per $/month (20 h/week for $200/mo), so Claude Max 20× gives more building hours per dollar; on building benchmark quality Codex Pro 200 runs GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex · 60/100 and Claude Max 20× runs Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Code · 55/100; Codex Pro 200 hours are guessed — treat them as a guess.

Question 2

What do Claude Max 20× and Codex Pro 200 cost?

Accepted Answer

$200/mo and $200/mo. Comparisons only pair plans within 1.5× of each other on price.

Question 3

Can Claude Max 20× and Codex Pro 200 run as terminal CLI agents?

Accepted Answer

Claude Max 20× runs as a CLI agent. Codex Pro 200 runs as a CLI agent. The stack builder can require at least one CLI seat.

	Claude Max 20×	Codex Pro 200
Price	$200/mo	$200/mo
Building h/week p50 (p10–p90), peak	90 (50–180)	20 (10–32)
Building h/week p50 (p10–p90), off-peak	—	—
Building h/week per $/mo at p50 peak	0.45	0.10
Benchmark quality /100s	Fable 5.1 (max) (with fallback) · Claude Code · 62/100 planning · Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Code · 55/100 building · Sonnet 5.5 (high) · Claude Code · 55/100 admin	GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex · 60/100 planning · GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex · 60/100 building · GPT-6.1 Sol (high) · Codex · 60/100 admin
Source	community	guessed
Terminal CLI agent	Yes	Yes
Clock	no published off-peak discount	no published off-peak discount

Claude Max 20× vs Codex Pro 200, side by side