Comparison

Mercurial vs Sapling

No leader: the top candidate Mercurial has only 0.14 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
Mercurial64
Sapling50
Score
Vioscale score
Mercurial64 / 100low · 14%
Sapling50 / 100low · 46%
Pricing
Free tier
Mercurial
Sapling
Model
Mercurialfree
Price level
Mercurialfree
Saplingfree
Transparent
Mercurial
Sapling
Integrations
Count
Mercurial
Sapling1
Reliability
Status page
Mercurial
Sapling
Adoption
Dependent repos
Mercurial
Sapling7
Github stars
Mercurial
Sapling6,993
Package downloads weekly
Mercurial86,972
Sapling
Activity
Commits last 30d
Mercurial
Sapling100
Release
Cadence days
Mercurial
Sapling34
History
Mercurial
Sapling20 items
License
Spdx
Mercurial
SaplingGPL-2.0
Language
Primary
MercurialPython
SaplingRust
Market
Availability
Sapling

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for version control. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Model
VCS model
MercurialDistributed
SaplingDistributed
Underlying VCS supported (Git / Mercurial / SVN / Perforce / multiple)
MercurialMercurial
SaplingGit
Deployment
Hosting
MercurialSelf-hosted only
SaplingSelf-hosted only
Review
Code review
MercurialNone (engine only)
SaplingPR / MR
Storage
Large-file / binary handling
Mercurial-
Sapling-
Scale
Monorepo scale (partial clone / sparse / VFS)
Mercurial-
Sapling-
DevOps
Built-in CI
Mercurial
Sapling-
Access
Access control granularity
Mercurial-
Sapling-
Federation
Federation / decentralisation (ActivityPub / email)
Mercurial-
Sapling-
Licensing
Open-source core
MercurialOpen-source
SaplingOpen-source
Self-managed license model
MercurialFree
Sapling-
Integration
API surface (REST / GraphQL / webhooks)
MercurialCLI
SaplingCLI, webhooks
Enterprise
SSO / SAML / SCIM
Mercurial
Sapling-
Security
Signed commits / supply-chain (GPG / SSH / sigstore)
Mercurial-
Sapling-

What each one is

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

Mercurial

Mercurial is an open-source, distributed version control tool designed to efficiently handle projects of any size. It provides each developer with a complete copy of the project history, enabling fast local operations and flexible collaboration workflows.

Independently observed

Sapling

An open-source version control system from Meta designed to work with Git repositories, offering both command-line and web-based interfaces for managing code and code review workflows.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Mercurial

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Sapling

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
Web
Mercurial
Sapling
macOS
Mercurial
Sapling
Windows
Mercurial
Sapling
Linux
Mercurial
Sapling
CLI
Mercurial
Sapling
Deployment
Self-hosted
Mercurial
Sapling

Integrations

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

Mercurial

Not documented yet.

Sapling

1 total
  • GitHub
Independently observed

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