ClaudeCode Growth Stalls: Users Flee to OpenAI Codex Over Watermark Fury
新智元 · wechat · 2026-08-20
TickerTrends reports that ClaudeCode's growth engine has stalled. While ARR stands at $15.12 billion, the month-over-month growth rate has plummeted to 5.2%. Stagnation is attributed to market saturation among core developers and the failure of the Cowork feature. A major backlash over the "invisible text watermark" feature, introduced for EU compliance, has triggered a wave of cancellations as users fear code contamination. Conversely, OpenAI Codex saw a 20.8% growth rate, absorbing many defectors with looser limits and better IDE integration.
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