# Devtool Arena - Codex CLI Leaderboard

See which CLI tools work best with Codex. Rankings compare task completion, setup friction, cost, errors, runtime, and agent-readiness signals.

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Companies | 60 |
| Completed evaluations | 60 |
| Categories | 20 |
| Average score | 53 |
| Average cost | $1.48 |
| Average runtime | 3m 49s |

## Rankings

| Rank | Company | Category | Score | Grade | Eval | Discovery | Cost | Runtime | Tool Calls | Errors |
|------|---------|----------|-------|-------|------|-----------|------|---------|------------|--------|
| 1 | [WorkOS](/leaderboard/codex/cli/workos) | Auth | 85 | B | 81 | 95 | $0.67 | 2m 58s | 9 | 0 |
| 2 | [LiveKit](/leaderboard/codex/cli/livekit) | Voice Infra | 82 | B | 77 | 93 | $0.62 | 2m 51s | 19 | 0 |
| 3 | [Browserbase](/leaderboard/codex/cli/browserbase) | Browser | 81 | B | 75 | 95 | $0.80 | 2m 3s | 23 | 0 |
| 4 | [Nimble](/leaderboard/codex/cli/nimbleway) | Search | 81 | B | 79 | 87 | $0.77 | 1m 22s | 16 | 0 |
| 5 | [Cloudflare](/leaderboard/codex/cli/cloudflare) | Cloud Hosting | 80 | B | 72 | 100 | $1.34 | 4m 49s | 31 | 0 |
| 6 | [Sprites](/leaderboard/codex/cli/sprites) | Sandboxes | 78 | B | 89 | 53 | $0.36 | 47s | 9 | 0 |
| 7 | [E2B](/leaderboard/codex/cli/e2b) | Sandboxes | 77 | B | 85 | 60 | $0.50 | 56s | 13 | 0 |
| 8 | [Deepgram](/leaderboard/codex/cli/deepgram) | Voice STT | 76 | B | 68 | 95 | $0.86 | 2m 42s | 11 | 2 |
| 9 | [Resend](/leaderboard/codex/cli/resend) | Email | 76 | B | 66 | 100 | $0.68 | 3m 2s | 18 | 4 |
| 10 | [Tavily](/leaderboard/codex/cli/tavily) | Search | 76 | B | 77 | 75 | $1.20 | 1m 51s | 25 | 0 |
| 11 | [Firecrawl](/leaderboard/codex/cli/firecrawl) | Search | 74 | C | 74 | 75 | $0.85 | 3m 51s | 25 | 0 |
| 12 | [Datadog](/leaderboard/codex/cli/datadog) | Observability | 73 | C | 73 | 75 | $0.33 | 2m 15s | 10 | 1 |
| 13 | [Naive](/leaderboard/codex/cli/naive) | Unified API | 73 | C | 75 | 68 | $1.17 | 2m 29s | 19 | 0 |
| 14 | [Stripe](/leaderboard/codex/cli/stripe) | Payment | 73 | C | 65 | 93 | $0.96 | 4m 3s | 19 | 2 |
| 15 | [Agentmail](/leaderboard/codex/cli/agentmail) | Email | 72 | C | 66 | 86 | $0.59 | 3m 55s | 18 | 3 |
| 16 | [Render](/leaderboard/codex/cli/render) | Cloud Hosting | 72 | C | 61 | 100 | $2.35 | 7m 9s | 42 | 8 |
| 17 | [Steel](/leaderboard/codex/cli/steel) | Browser | 72 | C | 63 | 93 | $2.07 | 2m 48s | 35 | 3 |
| 18 | [Extend.ai](/leaderboard/codex/cli/extend-ai) | Document Parsing | 71 | C | 68 | 80 | $0.82 | 2m 25s | 13 | 3 |
| 19 | [Daytona](/leaderboard/codex/cli/daytona) | Sandboxes | 70 | C | 70 | 70 | $0.74 | 1m 17s | 15 | 3 |
| 20 | [Browser Use](/leaderboard/codex/cli/browser-use) | Browser | 69 | C | 64 | 82 | $2.02 | 2m 56s | 24 | 1 |
| 21 | [Jina AI](/leaderboard/codex/cli/jina-ai) | Search | 69 | C | 69 | 70 | $0.75 | 1m 41s | 16 | 1 |
| 22 | [Pinecone](/leaderboard/codex/cli/pinecone) | Vector Databases | 69 | C | 65 | 78 | $1.12 | 2m 21s | 20 | 2 |
| 23 | [ElevenLabs](/leaderboard/codex/cli/elevenlabs) | Voice TTS | 68 | C | 61 | 86 | $1.75 | 5m 20s | 29 | 4 |
| 24 | [Anchor Browser](/leaderboard/codex/cli/anchor-browser) | Browser | 66 | C | 63 | 73 | $1.70 | 2m 46s | 37 | 4 |
| 25 | [AssemblyAI](/leaderboard/codex/cli/assemblyai) | Voice STT | 64 | C | 62 | 70 | $3.42 | 4m 41s | 38 | 13 |
| 26 | [Box](/leaderboard/codex/cli/box) | Storage | 64 | C | 65 | 63 | $1.28 | 3m 39s | 13 | 4 |
| 27 | [Modal](/leaderboard/codex/cli/modal) | Sandboxes | 64 | C | 70 | 50 | $0.47 | 1m 13s | 17 | 1 |
| 28 | [Reducto](/leaderboard/codex/cli/reducto) | Document Parsing | 61 | C | 70 | 40 | $0.81 | 1m 32s | 12 | 1 |
| 29 | [Temporal](/leaderboard/codex/cli/temporal) | Durable Workflow | 61 | C | 66 | 50 | $0.80 | 3m 20s | 15 | 4 |
| 30 | [Tenki](/leaderboard/codex/cli/tenki) | Sandboxes | 61 | C | 69 | 43 | $0.81 | 1m 31s | 19 | 2 |
| 31 | [LlamaParse](/leaderboard/codex/cli/llamaparse) | Document Parsing | 60 | C | 69 | 40 | $0.85 | 1m 55s | 18 | 5 |
| 32 | [OpenRouter](/leaderboard/codex/cli/openrouter) | Inference | 60 | C | 61 | 60 | $3.20 | 7m 19s | 42 | 8 |
| 33 | [Descope](/leaderboard/codex/cli/descope) | Auth | 59 | C | 61 | 55 | $1.44 | 5m 32s | 38 | 3 |
| 34 | [Groq](/leaderboard/codex/cli/groq) | Inference | 59 | C | 61 | 55 | $3.33 | 5m 27s | 27 | 6 |
| 35 | [Auth0](/leaderboard/codex/cli/auth0) | Auth | 58 | C | 64 | 45 | $0.86 | 4m 10s | 22 | 1 |
| 36 | [Camunda](/leaderboard/codex/cli/camunda) | Durable Workflow | 57 | C | 61 | 50 | $3.08 | 9m 3s | 63 | 10 |
| 37 | [Unstructured](/leaderboard/codex/cli/unstructured) | Document Parsing | 56 | C | 64 | 40 | $1.98 | 2m 44s | 25 | 5 |
| 38 | [Rime](/leaderboard/codex/cli/rime) | Voice TTS | 52 | D | 62 | 30 | $1.21 | 3m 41s | 30 | 3 |
| 39 | [Telnyx](/leaderboard/codex/cli/telnyx) | Voice Telephony | 52 | D | 59 | 35 | $1.88 | 5m 59s | 28 | 4 |
| 40 | [Twilio](/leaderboard/codex/cli/twilio) | Voice Telephony | 52 | D | 60 | 35 | $1.35 | 6m 10s | 25 | 12 |
| 41 | [Vercel](/leaderboard/codex/cli/vercel) | Sandboxes | 48 | D | 36 | 78 | $0.77 | 2m 7s | 15 | 4 |
| 42 | [Vonage](/leaderboard/codex/cli/vonage) | Voice Telephony | 45 | D | 63 | 5 | $0.83 | 5m 24s | 25 | 9 |
| 43 | [Nebius AI Cloud](/leaderboard/codex/cli/nebius-ai-cloud) | Neocloud | 39 | D | 28 | 67 | $1.36 | 2m 15s | 40 | 9 |
| 44 | [Railway](/leaderboard/codex/cli/railway) | Cloud Hosting | 29 | D | 2 | 93 | $1.35 | 4m 50s | 28 | 3 |
| 45 | [Unblocked](/leaderboard/codex/cli/unblocked) | Search | 28 | D | 25 | 35 | $1.69 | 2m 19s | 29 | 5 |
| 46 | [DigitalOcean](/leaderboard/codex/cli/digitalocean) | Cloud Hosting | 26 | D | — | 88 | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| 47 | [Zilliz Cloud](/leaderboard/codex/cli/zilliz-cloud) | Vector Databases | 26 | D | — | 88 | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | [Nylas](/leaderboard/codex/cli/nylas) | Email | 25 | D | — | 86 | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| 49 | [Cartesia](/leaderboard/codex/cli/cartesia) | Voice TTS | 21 | D | 6 | 55 | $2.75 | 2m 41s | 48 | 2 |
| 50 | [Chroma](/leaderboard/codex/cli/chroma) | Vector Databases | 21 | D | 5 | 60 | $3.26 | 8m 59s | 47 | 9 |
| 51 | [Netlify](/leaderboard/codex/cli/netlify) | Cloud Hosting | 21 | D | 1 | 68 | $2.25 | 8m 48s | 42 | 11 |
| 52 | [Fireworks AI](/leaderboard/codex/cli/fireworks-ai) | Inference | 17 | D | 4 | 50 | $4.31 | 8m 13s | 44 | 8 |
| 53 | [Weaviate](/leaderboard/codex/cli/weaviate) | Vector Databases | 15 | D | — | 50 | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| 54 | [Semgrep](/leaderboard/codex/cli/semgrep) | Code Review | 13 | D | 6 | 30 | $1.18 | 2m 34s | 14 | 7 |
| 55 | [CodeRabbit](/leaderboard/codex/cli/coderabbit) | Code Review | 12 | D | 5 | 30 | $0.87 | 2m 56s | 23 | 6 |
| 56 | [Greptile](/leaderboard/codex/cli/greptile) | Code Review | 12 | D | 4 | 30 | $1.19 | 2m 55s | 25 | 3 |
| 57 | [Scalekit](/leaderboard/codex/cli/scalekit) | Auth | 10 | D | 1 | 33 | $2.69 | 6m 18s | 33 | 7 |
| 58 | [Sourcegraph](/leaderboard/codex/cli/sourcegraph) | Search | 10 | D | — | 35 | — | — | 0 | 0 |
| 59 | [Qodo](/leaderboard/codex/cli/qodo) | Code Review | 9 | D | 1 | 30 | $2.28 | 5m 4s | 35 | 8 |
| 60 | [Pipecat](/leaderboard/codex/cli/pipecat) | Voice Infra | 4 | D | 1 | 13 | $2.73 | 7m 50s | 41 | 14 |

## Categories

| Category | Companies |
|----------|-----------|
| Sandboxes | 6 |
| Search | 6 |
| Cloud Hosting | 5 |
| Auth | 4 |
| Browser | 4 |
| Code Review | 4 |
| Document Parsing | 4 |
| Vector Databases | 4 |
| Email | 3 |
| Inference | 3 |
| Voice Telephony | 3 |
| Voice TTS | 3 |
| Durable Workflow | 2 |
| Voice Infra | 2 |
| Voice STT | 2 |
| Neocloud | 1 |
| Observability | 1 |
| Payment | 1 |
| Storage | 1 |
| Unified API | 1 |

## Related Pages

- [Compare companies](/leaderboard/codex/cli/compare)
- [Claude Code API leaderboard](/leaderboard/claudecode/api)
- [Codex API leaderboard](/leaderboard/codex/api)
- [Agent Landscape](/leaderboard/discoverability)

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