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Products that do what Codex CLI does

Codex-CLI

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Codex by OpenAI▲955
AI that writes code for you
2021 · openai.com
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Codex by OpenAI▲346
A command center for working with agents
Feb 2026 · openai.com
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CodeX-Editor▲125
A web code editor with AI & multi-language support
2025
4
Cosine CLI▲334
AI pair programming directly in your terminal
Sep 2025
5OC
Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs▲106
Hey HN, I’ve built Open Codex, a fully local, open-source alternative to OpenAI’s Codex CLI. My initial plan was to fork their project and extend it. I even started doing that. But it turned out their code has several leaky abstractions, which made it hard to override core behavior cleanly. Shortly after, OpenAI introduced breaking changes. Maintaining my customizations on top became increasingly difficult. So I rewrote the whole thing from scratch using Python. My version is designed to support local LLMs. Right now, it only works with phi-4-mini (GGUF) via…
2025 · github.com
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openai-codex▲14
openai-codex
2025
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opencode▲395
Your terminal's AI agent, with any model you want
2025
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Codex app for Windows▲145
Codex now runs natively on Windows with secure sandbox
Mar 2026 · learn.chatgpt.com
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GPT-5 Codex▲358
A version of GPT-5 better at agentic coding
Sep 2025
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Cline CLI 2.0▲298
Parallel agents & headless CI/CD in your terminal
Feb 2026 · cline.bot
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Codexy▲13
Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal
2025
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Codex▲247
Discuss and understand your code base from within your IDE
2022
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CodeX▲124
Build webapps in minutes for completely free
2025
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Codex by ChatGPT▲401
Cloud agent for parallel dev tasks, powered by Codex-1
2025
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Github Copilot CLI▲422
Copilot's response to Claude Code and Codex CLI
Sep 2025
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ShioriCode▲119
Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code
May 2026 · shiori.ai
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OpenCode Superapp▲128
The power of Codex with local, self-hosted models and voice
Jul 2026 · opencodesuper.app
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Gemini CLI▲224
Code, research, and automate from your terminal
2025
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CLI Manager▲105
One dashboard to run and organize multiple AI CLI agents
Dec 2025 · solhun.com
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Cosmic CLI▲117
AI-powered CLI that builds, deploys, and manages content.
Feb 2026 · cosmicjs.com
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Presenting CODEX-AI▲7
An AI code completion assistant powered by Gemini.
2025
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Vibe Pocket▲135
Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile
Dec 2025 · vibepocket.com
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agents-cli▲145
The CLI your coding agent uses to ship agents
Jul 2026 · github.com
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Open Computer Use▲92
Open-source Computer Use MCP for AI agents
May 2026 · github.com

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