Jules vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Visual Studio Code vs Fine

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Jules
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OpenAI Codex CLI
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Visual Studio Code
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Jules
jules.google
An AI coding assistant that works while you sleep sounds like science fiction, but Jules runs continuously in the cloud doing exactly that
Competitor OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
Competitor Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and now includes built-in AI agents.
Competitor Fine
fine.dev
Issues become pull requests
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
280.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 27.6%
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▼ 40.6%
6-month growth
-46.5%
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-98.3%
Global rank web
#198,101
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Avg. last 3 months
435.9K
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269
Bounce rate lower is better
49%
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Pages / visit
1.6
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Visit duration
42s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 71% · ● Referral 28%
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JulesOpenAI Codex CLIVisual Studio CodeFine
0201K402.1K603.1K804.2KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 3011001K10K100K1MJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 301Nov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
CodeImagesText
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Output
Code
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Skill level
Advanced
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Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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