CodacyvsDeepSource
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Codacy
Codacy · Code review agent
#127MCP
Panel
6.21 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.2
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 5.7
- Longevity
- 6.7
“It covers 49 languages, which is 48 more than the one your monorepo is actually written in.”
DeepSource
DeepSource · Code review agent
#64MCP
Panel
6.12 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.3
- Cost
- 5.0
- Longevity
- 6.8
“It detects committed secrets, which is mostly a tool for finding out which of your colleagues commits secrets.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Codacy | DeepSource |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Code review agent | Code review agent |
| Runs | cloud, local | cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | No |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | YesThrough merge gates and merge policies on pull requests rather than by committing code itself. | YesAutofix commits corrections back to the pull request. |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | undisclosed | Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini |
| Bring your own model | No | YesBYOK for AI Review, with inference on your own infrastructure, is an Enterprise-tier feature. |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | seat | mixed |
| Starts at | $18/mo | $24/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | n/a | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Codacy | DeepSource | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 6.5 | Codacy — Pick it if you want deterministic rules and an AI reviewer from one vendor; pick CodeRabbit if the conversational review is the part you actually want. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.0 | Codacy — The reviewer comments on business-logic gaps between the pull request description and the diff, which means a badly written description is scored as a code defect. |
| El Profesor | 6.3 | 6.5 | DeepSource — Deterministic analysers and model agents produce findings into the same comment stream with no published split between them, and no precision figure for either. |
| La Inversora | 7.0 | 7.5 | DeepSource — A $24 per-user subscription with review metered per processed line on top, and bring-your-own-inference held back for the enterprise tier, is a well-designed expansion ladder. |
| La Jefa | 7.0 | 6.3 | Codacy — Sixty developers at $21 monthly is $1,260 a month, the free editor plugin costs nothing, and everything security asks about lives in a tier priced by conversation. |
| El Hacker | 4.0 | 4.0 | no preference |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.