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OpenAI Codex

Paid

OpenAI's software engineering agent, available as a CLI, IDE extension, and cloud agent that works on tasks in parallel sandboxes.

Pros

  • +Runs many tasks in parallel in the cloud
  • +Included with paid ChatGPT plans

Cons

  • −Best experience needs a paid ChatGPT plan
  • −Cloud tasks need repo setup to run tests

Where OpenAI Codex ranks

  • #3
    Coding agents

    Great for firing off many tasks in parallel and reviewing PRs later.

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