Across enterprise engineering teams evaluating the latest generation of AI coding agents, Anthropic’s Claude Code has emerged as the tool developers actually want to use. OpenAI’s Codex is getting its fair share of trials, but when engineers get a vote, Claude Code keeps winning the room. The numbers tell the storyBy February 2026, Claude Code was responsible for roughly 4% of all public GitHub commits, averaging around 135,000 commits per day. On verified benchmarks, Claude Code posted a 72.7% score compared to Codex’s 69.1%. Claude Code is gaining traction in enterprise contracts, particularly in environments where consistent output quality and compliance matter.