tool
Jules
Google's asynchronous coding agent: hand it a task, get back a pull request to review.
Price
Free tier
Licence
Proprietary
Runs commands
Yes
Sandbox
isolated
Pricing
Task-based free quota; paid plans raise the daily task limit.
Not verified against the vendor page — confirm before budgeting. Vendor pricing ↗
What it is allowed to touch
the field most directories skip| Runs shell commands | Yes |
| OS-level sandbox | isolated |
| Can read .env / secrets | No |
| Outbound network | Yes |
| Audit log | None |
Runs in a Google-hosted VM against a cloned repo, so the blast radius is the clone rather than your machine.
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