OpenAI is very good in terms of not having as much outages as Anthropic, but almost all products except Codex and the pro model is unimpressive, anthropic has the opposite situation.

for the longest time, anthropic with claude+code was the goat and everything else was mid at best, sounds fmailiar? right now codex is just a pleasure to work with while anthropic is dropping balls left and right, hopefully the planned IPO makes a bit of fire under their asses to get their vibecoded messes sorted and the core experience competitive again. even Opus 17 won't fix this when it gets nerfed or straight up isn't reliable or too expensive for more than 3 prompts a week.

OpenAI probably has better uptime precisely because less people use it.