OpenAI Codex
Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.
Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.
Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.
Job ads naming it, by week
Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names OpenAI Codex. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.
- 10 Aug 1
- 17 Aug 0
- 24 Aug 0
- 31 Aug 1
- 7 Sept 0
- 14 Sept 0
- 21 Sept 0
- 28 Sept 0
- 5 Oct 0
- 12 Oct 1
- 19 Oct 1
- 26 Oct 1
Biggest stories, last 90 days
- Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default604 pts · 292 comments · 12 Oct
- The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice490 pts · 251 comments · 1 Sept
- Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview463 pts · 316 comments · 13 Aug
- Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel452 pts · 93 comments · 15 Aug
- ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux349 pts · 246 comments · 13 Aug
- Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out294 pts · 148 comments · 3 Sept
- A week of using Codex more than Claude242 pts · 278 comments · 21 Aug
- Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps172 pts · 84 comments · 17 Oct
Bets on OpenAI Codex
- Miss
Miss: The condition broke in 2026-09-07; codex npm_downloads_weekly (weekly median) in the week of 2026-09-07 was 20,368,373 (bet: <= claude-code at 14,825,815). Graded automatically.
- Void
Codex will not overtake Claude Code in weekly npm installs for any single week through Oct 15, 2026.
Void: a duplicate of an earlier bet with the same claim.