Why hackers moved from OpenAI API to Claude
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from structured outputs on OpenAI apis to unstructured on Claude (haiku 4.5) and haven't had any issues (yet).”barefootford, 2025-11-14original comment ↗
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OpenAI API vs Claude
| OpenAI API | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 0 | 24 |
| Hackers who criticize | 0 | 25 |
| Moved away from it | 1 | 13 |
| Moved to it | 0 | 11 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of OpenAI API
No further criticism of OpenAI API captured yet.
Praise for Claude
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗