Amazon Q Developer
Inline completion, agentic refactors and legacy migration across AWS environments.
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Amazon Q Developer vs Codex
Amazon Q Developer (AWS) and Codex (OpenAI) both sit in Coding. Amazon Q Developer is the cheaper entry point at Free tier available. Paid tier pricing is not published on this page (visit pricing page).. Amazon Q Developer shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (8 vs 7). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Amazon Q Developer AWS | Codex OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | Amazon Q Developer | Codex |
| Entry cost | Free tier available. Paid tier pricing is not published on this page (visit pricing page). | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | Amazon Q Developer Free Tier free | Plus $20 · Pro $200 · Business $25 · API free |
| Model stack | Amazon Bedrock · Amazon Bedrock / Nova / Titan · Amazon Bedrock / Nova / Titan / Claude · Amazon Bedrock / Nova foundation models · Amazon Bedrock Foundation Models · Amazon Bedrock Models · Amazon Nova · Amazon Q · Bedrock Models · Claude · Nova | 5.6 Sol · GPT-4 · GPT-5.2 · GPT-5.2-Codex · GPT-5.4 · GPT-5.6 · GPT-5.6 Luna · GPT-5.6 Sol · GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-6 Astra · GPT-Live · gpt-oss |
| Context window | — | 400K tokens |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 8 | 7 |
| Origin | United States | Global |
| Capabilities | Agentic refactor, Java/.NET migration, AWS-aware context, CLI agent, inline code suggestions, agentic coding, vulnerability scanning, chat | Codex CLI, Codex IDE extension, Codex cloud, Codex Micro, Code review, Security workbench, Code generation, Codex Security |
Codex
A software engineering agent that runs tasks in parallel sandboxes and opens pull requests.
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