plannotator vs pr-agent
The two are close in size: 8.4k stars for plannotator, 12.9k for pr-agent. Over the days we have tracked them plannotator moved +41.8% and pr-agent +11.9%, so plannotator is growing faster right now.
pr-agent leads on context depth and noise control. plannotator 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
A local, browser-based review surface that plugs directly into many agent hooks so you can annotate plans, diffs, and HTML and send structured feedback back to the agent.
- Stars
- 8.4k
- Tracked growth
- +41.8%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost to run
- Free, self-hosted; external agent API keys or accounts may be required
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)
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 | plannotator | 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. | ●●●●● Diff-focused | ●●●●● PR + related files |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No noise controls | ●●●●● Configurable prompts |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Config file options | ●●●●● Config files & prompts |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Multiple providers | ●●●●● Multiple providers |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● One-command install | ●●●●● One-step setup |
Which one to pick
Pick plannotator if…
Local and agent-integrated: pick Plannotator when you want a local browser UI to review agent plans and code diffs and to send feedback directly to the agent.
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.
- Context depth: PR + related files (4/5 against 2/5)
- Noise control: Configurable prompts (3/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
backnotprop/plannotator
The-PR-Agent/pr-agent
Questions people ask
Is plannotator better than pr-agent?
pr-agent leads on context depth and noise control. plannotator does not take any axis by a clear margin. plannotator is worth picking when local and agent-integrated: pick Plannotator when you want a local browser UI to review agent plans and code diffs and to send feedback directly to the agent.
Which of plannotator and pr-agent keeps my code private?
plannotator: Self-hostable (4/5). pr-agent: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
plannotator: Free, self-hosted; external agent API keys or accounts may be required. pr-agent: Uses your API key (OpenAI/other providers).
Full profiles: backnotprop/plannotator and The-PR-Agent/pr-agent. Everything else in Code review agents.