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Jules
Google’s asynchronous coding agent that plans and executes GitHub repository tasks in cloud VMs and returns branches for pull requests.
- Best for
- Individual developers on GitHub who want to hand off bug fixes, dependency bumps, tests, and small features without keeping a local session open.
- Avoid if
- You need GitLab or Bitbucket, a Workspace or enterprise plan, self-hosting, inline completion, or published retention terms.
01 / Editorial view
Where it fits
Strengths
- Free tier with published task and concurrency limits
- Web, GitHub issue, CLI, and REST API entry points
- Scheduled tasks and automatic CI-failure fixes on its own PRs
Limitations
- GitHub is the only documented repository host
- Paid tiers limited to personal Google AI subscriptions on @gmail.com accounts
- No published data-retention terms
02 / Workflow
Surfaces and capabilities
- Autocomplete
- No
- Chat
- Yes
- Agent
- Yes
- Background agent
- Yes
- Review
- Unknown
- Testing
- Yes
Editors
Unknown
Operating systems
Unknown
Repository hosts
GitHub
Languages
Language-agnostic
Bring your own key
Unknown
Bring your own model
Unknown
03 / Orchestration
Coordination model
Supported agents
Jules
Isolation
Short-lived cloud VMs
Task sources
Web, GitHub issues, Jules Tools CLI, REST API, Scheduled tasks
Maximum parallelism
3 concurrent tasks free, 15 with Google AI Pro, 60 with Google AI Ultra; CLI --parallel starts up to 5 tasks per prompt
- Planning
- Yes
- Scheduling
- Yes
- Agent communication
- Unknown
- Review gates
- Unknown
- CI recovery
- Yes
- Merge workflow
- Unknown
- Session persistence
- Unknown
- Observability
- Yes
- Human approval
- Yes
04 / Cost and deployment
What it costs to run
Individual
Free: 15 tasks per rolling 24 hours, 3 concurrent. Google AI Pro: 100 tasks, 15 concurrent. Google AI Ultra: 300 tasks, 60 concurrent.
Team
Unknown
Enterprise
Unknown
Paid tiers are benefits of Google AI Pro and Ultra; Jules docs do not list a standalone price. Paid plans currently require an @gmail.com account; users must be 18 or older. Task limits are not shared or pooled across Google AI family-plan members.
05 / Privacy
Data handling
- Code processing
- Each task runs in a short-lived Google cloud VM with internet access, where Jules clones the repository and installs dependencies.
- Indexing
- Unknown
- Retention
- Unknown
- Training policy
- Google states Jules does not train on private repository content; the docs do not state a policy for public repositories.
- Enterprise controls
- Unknown
06 / Evidence
Primary sources
- Jules FAQ ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026classification.primary_category, compatibility.languages, compatibility.repository_hosts, capabilities.agent, capabilities.background_agent, deployment.cloud_service, privacy.code_processing, privacy.training_policy, pricing.free_tier
- Jules usage and limits ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026classification.audience, pricing, orchestration.max_parallelism
- Jules running tasks guide ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026classification.interfaces, capabilities.chat, compatibility.repository_hosts, orchestration.task_sources, orchestration.planning, orchestration.observability, orchestration.human_approval
- Jules environment setup ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026deployment.cloud_service, orchestration.isolation, privacy.code_processing
- Jules Tools CLI reference ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026classification.interfaces, deployment.local_app, orchestration.task_sources
- Jules REST API reference (alpha) ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026orchestration.task_sources, compatibility.repository_hosts
- Jules changelog ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026identity.status, models, orchestration.max_parallelism, orchestration.scheduling, orchestration.ci_recovery, orchestration.task_sources
- Google announcement: Jules out of beta ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026identity.status, pricing.free_tier, pricing.individual
- Google Labs Jules introduction ↗Checked Sep 12, 2026classification, capabilities.autocomplete, capabilities.agent, capabilities.background_agent, capabilities.testing, deployment.cloud_service, privacy.training_policy
Changelog
What changed
- Five profiles added, completing the 25-tool catalogueSep 12, 2026Amp, Augment Code, Jules, goose, and Agent Orchestrator join the landscape with primary-source evidence, filling the cloud-agent layer and adding a third orchestrator.
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