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Codacy vs Code Climate: What are the differences?
What is Codacy? Automated Code Review. Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt.
What is Code Climate? Automated Ruby Code Review. After each Git push, Code Climate analyzes your code for complexity, duplication, and common smells to determine changes in quality and surface technical debt hotspots.
Codacy and Code Climate can be categorized as "Code Review" tools.
Some of the features offered by Codacy are:
- Monitoring of Technical Debt
- Automated Code Review
- New and Fixed Issues per commit
On the other hand, Code Climate provides the following key features:
- Automated Git Updates- Nothing to install. Code Climate runs everytime you push a new commit.
- Activity Feeds- Up-to-the-minute information so you can see when and how code changes.
- Instant Notifications- Major security and quality changes pushed to where you work: email, Campfire, HipChat, and RSS feeds.
"Automated code review" is the primary reason why developers consider Codacy over the competitors, whereas "Auto sync with Github" was stated as the key factor in picking Code Climate.
According to the StackShare community, Code Climate has a broader approval, being mentioned in 144 company stacks & 48 developers stacks; compared to Codacy, which is listed in 44 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.
Pros of Codacy
- Automated code review43
- Easy setup35
- Free for open source29
- Customizable20
- Helps reduce technical debt18
- Better coding14
- Best scala support13
- Faster Employee Onboarding11
- Duplication detector10
- Great UI10
- PHP integration9
- Python inspection6
- Tools for JVM analysis5
- Many integrations5
- Github Integration4
- Must-have for Java3
- Easy Travis integration3
- Items can be ignored in the UI3
- Asdasdas3
- Gitlab2
- Asdas0
Pros of Code Climate
- Auto sync with Github71
- Simple grade system that motivates to keep code clean49
- Better coding45
- Free for open source30
- Hotspots for quick refactoring candidates21
- Continued encouragement to a have better / cleaner code15
- Great UI13
- Makes you a better coder11
- Duplication Detection10
- Safe and Secure5
- GitHub only2
- Python inspection2
- Great open community2
- GitHub integration, status inline in PRs2
- Extremely accurate in telling you the errors2
- Uses rubocop2
- Private2
- Locally Installable API1
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Cons of Codacy
- No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git6
Cons of Code Climate
- Learning curve, static analysis comparable to eslint2
- Complains about small stylistic decisions1
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