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cline/cline vs openai/codex

  • cline/cline

    Stars

    68,044

    First recorded star in 2024.

  • openai/codex

    Stars

    124,128

    First recorded star in 2025.

Star history overlay
50k STARS2 YR 2 MOcline/cline50kopenai/codex45k

cline/cline: 49,918 stars on September 15, 2026. openai/codex: 45,434 stars on September 15, 2026.

Star history for cline/cline
DateStars
July 12, 20241
July 21, 2024865
July 30, 20241149
August 8, 20241432
August 17, 20241960
August 26, 20242387
September 5, 20242983
September 14, 20243897
September 23, 20244812
October 2, 20245437
October 13, 20247220
October 22, 20248316
November 1, 20249637
November 10, 202410577
November 19, 202411490
November 28, 202412150
December 7, 202412704
December 16, 202413881
December 26, 202415283
January 4, 202517899
January 13, 202520625
January 22, 202522366
January 31, 202524724
February 10, 202526670
February 19, 202528302
February 28, 202530229
March 9, 202531621
March 18, 202533186
March 28, 202534949
April 6, 202536336
April 17, 202537918
April 26, 202539106
May 5, 202539806
May 14, 202540766
May 23, 202541388
June 2, 202541859
June 11, 202542227
June 20, 202542516
June 29, 202542935
July 8, 202543309
July 18, 202543674
July 27, 202543993
August 5, 202544323
August 14, 202544650
August 23, 202544888
September 2, 202545164
September 11, 202545332
September 20, 202545540
September 29, 202545707
October 8, 202545847
October 23, 202545965
November 1, 202546124
November 11, 202546317
November 20, 202546416
November 29, 202546912
December 8, 202547729
December 17, 202547948
December 27, 202548095
January 5, 202648236
January 14, 202648358
January 23, 202648462
February 1, 202648637
February 11, 202648757
February 20, 202648891
March 1, 202649010
March 10, 202649096
March 19, 202649182
March 28, 202649257
April 7, 202649343
April 16, 202649397
April 27, 202649506
May 7, 202649552
May 16, 202649600
May 25, 202649647
June 5, 202649685
June 14, 202649714
June 26, 202649731
August 2, 202649746
September 4, 202649772
September 15, 202649918
Star history for openai/codex
DateStars
April 16, 20254216
April 22, 202516497
April 28, 202517793
May 4, 202518333
May 10, 202518854
May 16, 202519532
May 23, 202523454
May 29, 202523803
June 4, 202524252
June 10, 202524628
June 18, 202524951
June 24, 202525187
June 30, 202525552
July 6, 202525746
July 12, 202525949
July 18, 202526121
July 25, 202526331
July 31, 202526481
August 6, 202526683
August 12, 202528289
August 18, 202528788
August 24, 202529208
August 31, 202530076
September 6, 202530871
September 12, 202531601
September 18, 202532735
September 24, 202533693
October 1, 202534408
October 7, 202534854
October 16, 202535104
October 23, 202535464
October 29, 202535699
November 5, 202535964
November 11, 202536161
November 17, 202536382
November 23, 202536552
November 29, 202536673
December 6, 202536907
December 12, 202537070
December 18, 202537859
December 24, 202538050
December 30, 202538219
January 5, 202638367
January 12, 202638677
January 18, 202638903
January 24, 202639184
January 30, 202639553
February 5, 202639867
February 12, 202640232
February 18, 202640541
February 25, 202640815
March 3, 202641086
March 9, 202641413
March 16, 202641717
March 22, 202641948
March 28, 202642104
April 3, 202642666
April 9, 202642905
April 16, 202643206
April 22, 202643445
April 28, 202643669
May 4, 202643868
May 10, 202644041
May 16, 202644174
May 23, 202644330
May 29, 202644484
June 4, 202644552
June 10, 202644639
June 16, 202644687
June 22, 202644724
June 30, 202644751
July 7, 202644774
July 15, 202644786
July 26, 202644797
August 11, 202644811
August 21, 202644876
August 27, 202644899
September 2, 202644915
September 8, 202645196
September 15, 202645434
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Repository health compared

Live analysis · unavailable data stays labelled

Popularity is only one axis. Compare technical scale, maintenance cadence, ownership resilience and change pressure against the same completed analysis that sits behind each report.

Reach

Popularity and real-world adoption

Signalcline/clineopenai/codex
GitHub starsCurrent public GitHub metadata total.68,044Best result in this row: 124,128
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.+204Best result in this row: +747
ForksCurrent public GitHub metadata total.Not availableNot available
Largest package audienceLargest resolved registry total; sources are shown explicitly.No resolved packageNo resolved package
Repository ageElapsed years since the GitHub creation timestamp.2.2 years1.4 years

Codebase

Size and technical center of gravity

Signalcline/clineopenai/codex
Dominant languageLargest share of analyzed code lines at current HEAD.Not availableNot available
Code linesAnalyzed source lines at current HEAD, excluding blanks and comments.Not availableNot available
Languages representedLanguages with non-zero files or line counts.Not availableNot available

Maintenance

Commit volume and recent operating cadence

Signalcline/clineopenai/codex
Repository commitsFull repository commit total reported by the analysis.Not availableNot available
Commits · trailing 90dCommit count in the newest 90 days covered by the repository analysis.Not availableNot available

Ownership

How broadly maintenance responsibility is distributed

Signalcline/clineopenai/codex
Bus factorFewest analyzed contributors carrying at least half the commits.Not availableNot available
Top contributor concentrationShare of attributed commits carried by the most active contributor.Not availableNot available

Change signals

Debt markers and fix pressure in frequently changed files

Signalcline/clineopenai/codex
Fix-labelled share · frequently changed filesFix-labelled commits divided by commits across the analyzed high-frequency file set.Not availableNot available
Recent TODO/FIXME movementLatest cumulative marker count and its change over the trailing 90 days.Not availableNot available

Both curves are drawn on shared axes. They are not drawn from a shared source: each series names its own below.

One axis, two sources

The overlay puts both repositories on one axis. It does not put them on one source: since July 2026 a stargazer-list series stops on a fixed date, while a series rebuilt from public archive events keeps receiving points. Each column below states its own reading.

How the star series for cline/cline and openai/codex were read
Fieldcline/clineopenai/codex
SourceHistorical star dataHistorical star data
CoverageCovers through September 15, 2026Covers through September 15, 2026
StateStill updatingStill updating

No row states how much of a history is missing. An archive series records star actions and not unstars, so it can exceed a repository's own star total, and a figure for the difference would be wrong exactly where it looks most precise.

Notes on this comparison

  • Which has more GitHub stars, cline/cline or openai/codex?

    GitHub reports 124,128 stars for openai/codex and 68,044 for cline/cline.

  • Do both star histories cover the same period?

    Not necessarily, and each chart names its own. cline/cline — Historical star data · Covers through September 15, 2026 · Still updating. openai/codex — Historical star data · Covers through September 15, 2026 · Still updating. Since July 2026 GitHub serves a repository's stargazer list only to its own admins and collaborators, so one series can stop on a fixed date while the other keeps flowing from public archive events.

  • How is this comparison computed?

    Star totals come from public repository metadata. The two curves are each repository's stored star series drawn on shared axes, from whichever source is named above. Repository-health figures are computed independently from each project's commit history.