Codex vs Grok at $100/month: which is better for heavy agent development?
Muted_Standard175 · reddit · 2026-09-08
An AI engineer asks Reddit which $100/month plan is better for heavy coding: OpenAI Codex or Grok. Their daily work is Python, LangGraph/LangChain, LLM agents, evals, and backend service debugging.
From their own experience, Grok feels faster while Codex seems smarter, and they're torn between the two.
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