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cline/cline vs openai/codex

  • cline/cline

    Stars

    68,143

    First recorded star in 2024.

  • openai/codex

    Stars

    124,657

    First recorded star in 2025.

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

cline/cline: 49,933 stars on September 16, 2026. openai/codex: 45,487 stars on September 16, 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 23, 20248420
November 1, 20249637
November 10, 202410577
November 19, 202411490
November 28, 202412150
December 8, 202412848
December 17, 202413992
December 26, 202415283
January 4, 202517899
January 13, 202520625
January 22, 202522366
February 1, 202524905
February 10, 202526670
February 19, 202528302
February 28, 202530229
March 9, 202531621
March 19, 202533348
March 28, 202534949
April 6, 202536336
April 17, 202537918
April 26, 202539106
May 6, 202539903
May 15, 202540850
May 24, 202541432
June 2, 202541859
June 11, 202542227
June 21, 202542541
June 30, 202542970
July 9, 202543345
July 18, 202543674
July 27, 202543993
August 5, 202544323
August 15, 202544676
August 24, 202544911
September 2, 202545164
September 11, 202545332
September 20, 202545540
September 30, 202545725
October 9, 202545848
October 24, 202545988
November 2, 202546149
November 11, 202546317
November 21, 202546427
November 30, 202546992
December 9, 202547788
December 18, 202547960
December 27, 202548095
January 6, 202648249
January 15, 202648372
January 24, 202648471
February 2, 202648651
February 11, 202648757
February 20, 202648891
March 2, 202649020
March 11, 202649104
March 20, 202649195
March 29, 202649267
April 7, 202649343
April 17, 202649400
April 28, 202649509
May 8, 202649554
May 17, 202649605
May 26, 202649653
June 6, 202649691
June 15, 202649715
June 29, 202649732
August 7, 202649747
September 5, 202649799
September 16, 202649933
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 19, 202526159
July 25, 202526331
July 31, 202526481
August 6, 202526683
August 12, 202528289
August 19, 202528848
August 25, 202529320
August 31, 202530076
September 6, 202530871
September 12, 202531601
September 19, 202532986
September 25, 202533824
October 1, 202534408
October 7, 202534854
October 16, 202535104
October 24, 202535508
October 30, 202535735
November 5, 202535964
November 11, 202536161
November 17, 202536382
November 24, 202536567
November 30, 202536695
December 6, 202536907
December 12, 202537070
December 18, 202537859
December 25, 202538065
December 31, 202538234
January 6, 202638401
January 12, 202638677
January 18, 202638903
January 25, 202639295
January 31, 202639589
February 6, 202639935
February 12, 202640232
February 18, 202640541
February 26, 202640860
March 4, 202641132
March 10, 202641458
March 16, 202641717
March 23, 202641982
March 29, 202642124
April 4, 202642712
April 10, 202642961
April 16, 202643206
April 22, 202643445
April 29, 202643692
May 5, 202643879
May 11, 202644076
May 17, 202644197
May 23, 202644330
May 30, 202644504
June 5, 202644567
June 11, 202644643
June 17, 202644691
June 23, 202644725
July 1, 202644759
July 8, 202644775
July 16, 202644787
July 29, 202644800
August 12, 202644813
August 22, 202644883
August 28, 202644900
September 3, 202644920
September 9, 202645207
September 16, 202645487
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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.68,143Best result in this row: 124,657
Stars gained · trailing 90dChange in the newest 90 days covered by each cached series.+218Best result in this row: +791
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 16, 2026Covers through September 16, 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 124,657 stars for openai/codex and 68,143 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 16, 2026 · Still updating. openai/codex — Historical star data · Covers through September 16, 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.