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Best reason to use Codex CLI over Claude…

Best reason to use Codex CLI over Claude Code is the limits. I've been HAMMERING gpt-5-high for >8 hours/day all week. It's the last day of the week and I haven't hit 35% of the weekly limit.

If I'd paid the same $200/mo for Claude, I'd have been locked out by day 2.

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