CCCodex

Tracking AI coding agents on GitHub — Claude Code vs Codex

📊Total AI Commits
4.8M
Across both agents
📁Total Repositories
1.4M
Public repos on GitHub
🟠Claude Code Commits
4.2M
4.0% of GitHub
🟢Codex Commits
600.4K
0.8% of GitHub

Commit Share

Claude Code 87.6%
Codex 12.4%
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Claude Code

(Anthropic)
Weekly Growth
+8.0%
Doubling Time
61 days
Net Lines Added
30.7B
Active Since
2025-02-01
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Codex

(OpenAI)
Weekly Growth
+12.5%
Doubling Time
42 days
Net Lines Added
5.3B
Active Since
2025-05-01

Daily Commits (7-day moving average)

Language Breakdown (%)

Repository Star Distribution (%)

Head-to-Head Comparison

Metric🟠 Claude Code🟢 Codex
Total Commits4.2M600.4K
Active Repositories1.1M285.0K
Lines Added50.2B8.5B
Lines Deleted19.5B3.2B
Net Lines30.7B5.3B
Weekly Growth8.0%12.5%
Doubling Time61 days42 days
Est. GitHub Share4.0%0.8%
Top LanguageTypeScript (34.8%)Python (28.5%)
Launch Date2025-02-012025-05-01

How We Track AI Commits

We identify AI-generated commits on public GitHub repositories by searching for known signatures left by each coding agent. GitHub caps search results at 1,000 per query, so we use recursive time-window splitting to capture all data.

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Claude Code

by Anthropic
  • Co-Author Trailer: Commits with Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
    author-email:noreply@anthropic.com"Co-authored-by: Claude"
  • Session URL: Commits containing claude.ai/code session links
    "claude.ai/code"
  • Direct Author: Commits authored directly by Claude Code
    author-name:Claude
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Codex

by OpenAI
  • Default Author Email: Commits from Codex cloud environment default identity
    author-email:codex@openai.com
  • Default Author Name: Commits with default Codex author name
    author-name:Codex04l
  • Codex Connector Bot: Commits with chatgpt-codex-connector bot co-author
    "chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]"
  • Codex GitHub Action: Commits from openai/codex-action
    "codex-action"