deepsec vs pr-agent

The two are close in size: 7.9k stars for deepsec, 12.9k for pr-agent. Over the days we have tracked them deepsec moved +154.8% and pr-agent +11.9%, 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
7.9k
Tracked growth
+154.8%
Maturity
Last commit
20h 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
12.9k
Tracked growth
+11.9%
Maturity
Last commit
2h ago
Language
Python
License
MIT
Cost to run
Uses your API key (OpenAI/other providers)
0%+155%90 tracked days
vercel-labs/deepsecThe-PR-Agent/pr-agent

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.

Axisdeepsecpr-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.

Runs in cli, ci, pr-bot. Works with byok, openai, anthropic.

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)
Runs in github-action, cli, web-app, pr-bot. Works with byok, openai, anthropic, other-fixed.

What people want from each one

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.