Did Codex Overtake Claude Code? The 7M-User Question


Codex hit 7 million active users on July 13, 2026 — up from 600,000 at the start of the year. That is a 10x surge in six months, with the last million arriving in a single day following GPT-5.6's launch on July 9. Latent Space ran the headline everyone was thinking: "did Codex overtake Claude...