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88Velocity / 100
rank #4 of 14
1248Commits · last 4w
▼ 271 fewer than prior 4w
131kStars
21kForks
25kOpen issues
RustLanguage

How the velocity score is built

A 0–100 measure of shipping pace — weighted from three real GitHub signals. Every number below traces to the live API.

Commit cadence55% weight
1,248 commits in the last 4 weeks (saturates at 400)+55 pts
Release recency25% weight
last release 4d ago (full credit ≤30d, fades to 0 by 270d)+25 pts
6-month trend20% weight
−271 vs prior 4 weeks (−18%)+8 pts
Velocity score88 / 100

Shipping momentum

Monthly commits · last 6 months · 6,708 total (real GitHub commit history)

6 months agonow
Last 4 weeks1,248
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Prior 4 weeks1,519
Braking · −271 commits

Race position over time

Where codex sits on the board, tracked daily — held position since the prior run. position over the last 90 days tracked · best: #1.

#4Current rank
#1Best rank
→Since prior run

Stars & reach

day-over-day, last 90 days tracked

131kStars
21kForks
158Forks · per 1k stars
25kOpen issues

Latest release

Newest stable tag on GitHub — release recency is 25% of the velocity score

rust-v0.164.0Tag
4d agoReleased

Category peers · CLI

How codex stacks up against the rest of the CLI field, ranked by velocity

#2opencode91#3qwen-code91#7gemini-cli56#8goose55#10crush49#11claude-code39#13aider10

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Recomputed today · scored from public-repo GitHub activity. Velocity = commit cadence (55%) + release recency (25%) + 6-month trend (20%). JSON API ↗