# OpenAI Codex vs Vibe-Trading (slim)

> OpenAI Codex scores 73.4 (BB) to Vibe-Trading's 62.2 (B) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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OpenAI Codex scores 73.4 (BB) on agent readiness against Vibe-Trading's 62.2 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Vibe-Trading leads on reliability. Both do agent harnesses.

- OpenAI Codex: BB 73.4, rank #96 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-codex.min.md
- Vibe-Trading: B 62.2, rank #502 of 1210 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.min.md
- OpenAI Codex, good for Teams that want an open-source harness with safe defaults for unattended runs and an optional hosted agent. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 90 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 80 against 67; Security & auth, 82 against 70; Maintenance & community, 87 against 82; Transparency & trust, 84 against 47. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Vibe-Trading, good for A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent. Ahead on Reliability, 63 against 55. Also No key needed to call it; Runs on your own machine.

| Category | OpenAI Codex | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 80 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 82 | 70 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 47 |

| Fact (where they differ) | OpenAI Codex | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | OpenAI | HKUDS |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (Codex CLI, its Rust crates and the TypeScript and Python SDKs). Codex cloud is a hosted service under OpenAI's terms | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read |  |
| Popularity | 126k stars | 37k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |