deepsec vs pr-agent
The two are close in size: 8.2k stars for deepsec, 13.5k for pr-agent. Over the days we have tracked them deepsec moved +33.4% and pr-agent +10.3%, so deepsec is growing faster right now.
pr-agent leads on setup ease. deepsec does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Agent-powered whole-repo vulnerability scanner that scales across workers, resumes interrupted runs, and lets you grow project-specific matchers.
- Stars
- 8.2k
- Tracked growth
- +33.4%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 21d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost to run
- Uses your model API keys; full-repo scans can be costly for large repos
An open-source, community-maintained, self‑hostable PR reviewer that compresses and adapts PR context and exposes JSON-configurable prompts for team customization.
- Stars
- 13.5k
- Tracked growth
- +10.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Uses your API key (OpenAI/other providers)
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | deepsec | pr-agent |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis | ●●●●● PR + related files |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Revalidate + matchers | ●●●●● Configurable prompts |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Plugins & matchers | ●●●●● Config files & prompts |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Cloud APIs with key | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● BYOK & providers | ●●●●● Multiple providers |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Config + API key | ●●●●● One-step setup |
Which one to pick
Pick deepsec if…
High-coverage — pick deepsec when you need an agent-driven, tunable scanner that analyzes entire large codebases and supports custom matchers and distributed execution.
Pick pr-agent if…
Pick PR-Agent when you need a self‑hosted, highly customizable PR reviewer that supports multiple Git providers and scales to large pull requests.
- Setup ease: One-step setup (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
vercel-labs/deepsec
The-PR-Agent/pr-agent
Questions people ask
Is deepsec better than pr-agent?
pr-agent leads on setup ease. deepsec does not take any axis by a clear margin. deepsec is worth picking when high-coverage — pick deepsec when you need an agent-driven, tunable scanner that analyzes entire large codebases and supports custom matchers and distributed execution.
Which of deepsec and pr-agent keeps my code private?
deepsec: Cloud APIs with key (3/5). pr-agent: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
deepsec: Uses your model API keys; full-repo scans can be costly for large repos. pr-agent: Uses your API key (OpenAI/other providers).
Full profiles: vercel-labs/deepsec and The-PR-Agent/pr-agent. Everything else in Code review agents.