OpenAI Codex CLI vs Jules vs Continue

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

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OpenAI Codex CLI
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Jules
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Continue
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Suggested competitors for OpenAI Codex CLI: Gemini CLI100% Qwen Code98% OpenCode97% JetBrains AI Assistant95% Visual Studio Code95% Kimi Code94% GitHub Copilot CLI94% Amp93%
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Your tool OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Competitor 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
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Competitor Continue
continue.dev
Continue is an open-source AI coding agent that was built by a community of developers and has since been acquired by Cursor.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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280.8Kvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 27.6%
▼ 16.6%
6-month growth
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-46.5%
-24.4%
Global rank web
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#198,101
#106,338
Avg. last 3 months
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435.9K
539.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
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49%
48%
Pages / visit
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1.6
2.4
Visit duration
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42s
1m 44s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 71% · ● Referral 28%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
OpenAI Codex CLIJulesContinue
0201K402.1K603.1K804.2KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4K100K1MJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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Plans
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
Input
CodeImagesText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
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