Started with Cursor. Most people do. Then Claude Code dropped and something shifted. The reasoning, the context handling, the way it could sit inside a complex codebase and actually think, Cursor started feeling like autocomplete in comparison. So we upgraded. $20/month wasn’t enough. Hit the limits constantly. Moved to $100. Hit limits again on heavy weeks. Moved to $200. Then Codex launched. And here’s where it got interesting, we didn’t drop Claude Code. We split the budget. $100 Claude Code, $100 Codex. Because they’re genuinely different tools for different moments. The one thing Codex does that Claude Code doesn’t handle as smoothly: mid-task steering. If Claude Code is deep in terminal work and you realize it’s going down the wrong path, redirecting it is friction. Codex lets you steer mid-run, drop a new instruction, it absorbs it and adjusts course without breaking flow. For longer autonomous tasks, that matters. But for reasoning through a complex system, understanding tradeoffs, making architecture decisions, Claude Code isn’t close. So now we’re looking at $200-300/person/month as just… the baseline. Not because we planned it. Because limits kept running out and the tools kept proving their worth. Curious if others have landed in the same split, or if you’ve found a way to make one tool do everything and not constantly hit the ceiling. TL;DR: Went from Cursor → Claude Code → Claude Code + Codex split budget. $200-300/month feels like the new floor for anyone doing serious coding with AI. Wondering if others have hit the same pattern. submitted by /u/RepulsiveMap8791
Originally posted by u/RepulsiveMap8791 on r/ClaudeCode