OpenAI Codex CLI vs Qwen Code

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	Qwen Code Alibaba's free, open-source terminal coding agent, Gemini CLI fork Visit
RECATOOLS Score	8.2 / 10	7.7 / 10
Capability	8.5	8
Value for money	7.5	9
Ease of use	7.5	6
ASEAN readiness	6.5	7
API quality	8	7
Pricing	Freemium	Open Source
Free tier	—	—
Paid from	—	—
Has API	✓	✓
Open source	✓	✓
Free to use	✓	✓
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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...	Qwen Code is what you'd expect from an open-source fork of Gemini CLI retooled for Qwen3-Coder: the same terminal-first workflow and project-context system, now provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Alib...
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