Comparison

Clippy vs golangci-lint

No leader: the top candidate Clippy has only 0.31 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Clippy66
golangci-lint64
Score
Vioscale score
Clippy66 / 100low · 31%
golangci-lint64 / 100medium · 50%
Pricing
Free tier
Clippy
golangci-lint
Model
golangci-lintopen_source
Price level
Clippyfree
golangci-lintfree
Integrations
Count
Clippy
golangci-lint6
Adoption
Dependent repos
Clippy256
golangci-lint10,411
Github stars
Clippy116,179
golangci-lint19,318
Activity
Commits last 30d
Clippy100
golangci-lint45
Release
Cadence days
Clippy30
golangci-lint5
History
Clippy20 items
golangci-lint20 items
License
Spdx
golangci-lintGPL-3.0
Language
Primary
ClippyRust
golangci-lintGo

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for code quality tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Function
ClippyLinter
golangci-lintLinter
Language scope
ClippySingle-language
golangci-lintSingle-language
Implementation language
ClippyRust
golangci-lintGo
Capability
Autofix
Clippy-
golangci-lint
Config
Config model
Clippy-
golangci-lintConfig file
Extensibility
Custom rules
Clippy-
golangci-lint
Deployment
Deployment
ClippyCLI-local
golangci-lintCLI-local
Delivery
Editor integration
Clippy-
golangci-lint
CI / VCS gating
Clippy-
golangci-lint
Insight
Code metrics
Clippy-
golangci-lint
Performance
Incremental / monorepo aware
Clippy-
golangci-lint
Licensing
Open-source
ClippyOSS
golangci-lintOSS
Commercial
Pricing model
ClippyFree
golangci-lintFree

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Clippy

Clippy provides over 800 lints organized into configurable categories to catch common mistakes and improve Rust code quality. Lints are categorized by severity (correctness, suspicious, style, complexity, performance) and can be enabled or disabled individually.

Independently observed

golangci-lint

An open-source linting tool that combines multiple Go linters into a single, efficient analysis pass. It streamlines code quality checks by running linters concurrently and providing unified configuration.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Clippy

Open source
as of verify ↗

golangci-lint

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
CLI
Clippy
golangci-lint
Deployment
Self-hosted
Clippy
golangci-lint

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Clippy

Not documented yet.

golangci-lint

6 total
  • VS Code
  • Sublime Text
  • GoLand
  • GNU Emacs
  • Vim
  • GitHub Actions
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.