Where Jules Stands in Google's Coding Agents, October 2026

jules.google presents Jules as an autonomous coding agent with a free plan, Jules in Pro, and Jules in Ultra. The documentation lists respective limits of 15, 100, and 300 tasks per rolling 24 hours. Concurrency limits are 3, 15, and 60. Paid plans require personal @gmail.com accounts.

Google's AI plans page sells Plus, Pro at US$19.99 per month, Ultra 5x, and Ultra 20x. Ultra starts at US$99.99 per month. The table gives Jules three rows for task limits, concurrency, and model access, graded limited, expanded, higher, and highest. Antigravity has its own agent-request row. The page describes Jules as an asynchronous coding agent in beta and does not guarantee capacity.

• Ways to start Jules work: the web app, the Jules Tools CLI, the alpha REST API, a GitHub Action, and GitHub issues labeled jules.
• Google Labs' jules-action repository, which runs Jules from GitHub Actions, was last updated in December 2025.

On January 26, Jules added a Planning Critic for auto-approved plans and repoless API sessions. Gemini 3 Flash became the base model on January 30. Google added six vetted MCP servers on February 2, then CI Fixer and commit authoring on February 19. Gemini 3.1 Pro became the Pro default on March 9. The changelog stops there. No Jules page names Gemini 4 Argon or Gemini 3.8 Flash, which Google released in the Gemini API on October 13 and September 2, 2026.

Google's developer announcements shifted to Antigravity. At I/O on May 19, 2026, it released Antigravity 2.0, a standalone desktop app with scheduled background tasks. It also announced an Antigravity CLI and an early-access SDK, plus Managed Agents in the Gemini API. A US$100 per month Google AI Ultra plan added five times Pro's capacity. None of those announcements mentioned Jules.

Jules opens pull requests through the google-labs-jules GitHub app, so GitHub search counts its pull requests in public repositories. The counts below come from GitHub's search API, run on October 12, 2026, and exclude private repositories, where most company work happens.

Since September 9, 2026, a second app, google-labs-stitch, has opened pull requests whose descriptions end "Automated PR initiated by user via Stitch Loop". Pull requests from the Jules app still link to tasks on jules.google.com. Both apps were active on October 12, 2026. Google's Stitch CLI documentation describes Loop as an experimental mode, off by default, that pairs a GitHub repository with a Stitch workspace. Stitch reads the code against standing objectives, reports opportunities tied to a route, and proposes changes through the Stitch GitHub App.

Use Jules as a tool for individual developers, and keep team processes off it until Google sells a team plan. It works, people use it daily, and the free plan costs nothing. Google sells paid access only to personal accounts, and the changelog has no entry since March.

Keep a Jules pilot cheap to leave. Tasks return ordinary GitHub branches and pull requests, AGENTS.md and setup scripts carry over to other agents, and nothing in the workflow locks code into Jules.

GILD opened every Google page cited below on October 12, 2026. They are Jules's home page, documentation, and changelog, the Google AI plans page, and Google's blog posts on Jules, I/O 2026, and Antigravity. GitHub counts come from GitHub's search API on the same day. GitHub search reports 72,988 and 102,766 Jules app pull requests for December 2025 and January 2026, then 5,132 for February. No changelog entry or Google post accounts for that drop, so the chart starts in March 2026, the month of the last changelog entry. GitHub search covers public repositories only and returns totals as GitHub reports them. On October 25, 2026, GILD looked for a statement on how Stitch Loop relates to Jules. It checked Google's blogs, the Jules limits page, the Stitch CLI package documentation, and the Stitch by Google account on X. None names Jules, so this piece reports only what the pages show.

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1. 1Jules home page and plansOfficial documentationjules.google
2. 2Jules docs: Limits and plansOfficial documentationjules.google
3. 3Jules docs: FAQOfficial documentationjules.google
4. 4Jules changelogOfficial documentationjules.google
5. 5Jules changelog: Jules is out of beta (Aug 6, 2025)Official documentationjules.google
6. 6Jules changelog: Planning Critic for auto-approved plans (Jan 26, 2026)Official documentationjules.google
7. 7Jules changelog: Gemini 3 Flash is the base model (Jan 30, 2026)Official documentationjules.google
8. 8Jules changelog: MCP support (Feb 2, 2026)Official documentationjules.google
9. 9Jules changelog: CI Fixer and commit authoring (Feb 19, 2026)Official documentationjules.google
10. 10Jules changelog: Gemini 3.1 Pro in Jules (Mar 9, 2026)Official documentationjules.google
11. 11Google One: Google AI plans and Jules limitsOfficial documentationone.google.com
12. 12Google Developers Blog: All the news from the Google I/O 2026 developer keynote (May 19, 2026)Official documentationdevelopers.googleblog.com
13. 13Google Antigravity blog: Antigravity at I/O 2026 (May 19, 2026)Official documentationantigravity.google
14. 14Google Labs: jules-action GitHub Action repositoryOfficial documentationgithub.com
15. 15Public GitHub pull request opened by google-labs-stitch[bot] via Stitch Loop (Oct 8, 2026)Public sourcegithub.com
16. 16Public GitHub pull request created by Jules for a task on jules.google.com (Oct 12, 2026)Public sourcegithub.com
17. 17npm registry: @google/stitch CLI package documentation, Experimental: Loop workspaces (Google Labs, v0.12.0, Oct 21, 2026)Public sourceregistry.npmjs.org