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94Velocity / 100
rank #1 of 14
1463Commits · last 4w
▲ 436 more than prior 4w
124kStars
19kForks
17kOpen 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
1,463 commits in the last 4 weeks (saturates at 400)+55 pts
Release recency25% weight
last release 3d ago (full credit ≤30d, fades to 0 by 270d)+25 pts
6-month trend20% weight
+436 vs prior 4 weeks (+42%)+14 pts
Velocity score94 / 100

Shipping momentum

Monthly commits · last 6 months · 6,106 total (real GitHub commit history)

6 months agonow
Last 4 weeks1,463
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Prior 4 weeks1,027
Accelerating · +436 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.

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

Stars & reach

day-over-day, last 90 days tracked

124kStars
19kForks
154Forks · per 1k stars
17kOpen issues

Latest release

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

rust-v0.154.0Tag
3d agoReleased

Category peers · CLI

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

#2qwen-code90#4goose81#5opencode75#9crush51#10claude-code48#11gemini-cli40#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 ↗