OpenAI Codex CLI vs Plandex

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

OpenAI Codex CLI OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent, now on GPT-5.3-Codex. Visit Plandex Open-source terminal coding agent — cloud service wound down Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8.2 / 10 6.8 / 10
Capability 8.5 7
Value for money 7.5 8
Ease of use 7.5 5
ASEAN readiness 6.5 7
API quality 8 6
Pricing Freemium Open Source
Free tier
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2024
Maker
Verdict

Codex CLI has scaled into a real Claude Code rival: OpenAI's repo sits at roughly 97,000 GitHub stars and the tool now ships baked into every ChatGPT tier, including Free. Reddit sentiment leans toward Codex for token ef...

Plandex's core idea still holds up: a terminal agent that plans a multi-step task, shows you a cumulative diff before anything touches disk, and lets you branch or roll back a plan like a git history. For a 20-30 file re...

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