Codacy alternative for AI-native engineering teams
Codacy grades the code.
Hyrax architects the codebase.
Codacy aggregates linters, coverage and duplication into a quality dashboard, which is a clear way to track standards across many repositories. Hyrax reasons about the codebase instead of grading it, and delivers fixes verified against the project test suite.
Hyrax audits roughly 400 of its own repositories.
Free plan: full access, up to 100 PR reviews a month, a $30 starter credit, and $10/month ongoing.
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Why teams switch
What changes when Hyrax runs above the tools.
Six domains, not one
Codacy covers its own scanning domain well. Hyrax evaluates security, correctness, maintainability, performance, architecture and operations together.
Verified against the project tests
A rules engine confirms a change satisfies its own rules. Hyrax runs the project test suite and build, so a fix is proven against the real system.
Context that compounds
The map of the codebase lives in the repository and improves with every merge, so the next decision starts from everything learned before it.
Comparison
How Hyrax and Codacy make decisions.
Read how Codacy describes itself: www.codacy.com(opens in a new tab)
Workflow
Comments on a diff, or a verified pull request.
- 01Codacy scans the project against its rule set.
- 02Findings arrive as a list to triage, with severity attached.
- 03The team decides what is worth fixing, makes the edits, and merges.
- 01Maps the codebase and keeps the map in the repository
- 02Applies architectural judgment across six domains
- 03Opens a verified pull request that a human merges
Getting started
From install to the first verified pull request.
Install the GitHub App
Grant read access to the repositories in scope. No card is required to start.
Hyrax maps the repository
Discovery writes HYRAX.md and .hyrax/discovery into the repository, so humans and AI tools read the same context.
Review the first pull request
Approved improvements arrive as verified pull requests. A human merges every one.
The honest verdict
Both tools solve real problems.
Choose Codacy if
The need is a consistent quality score and coverage reporting across a large number of repositories, in one dashboard. Codacy is a straightforward way to get it.
Choose Hyrax if
A grade describes the problem without moving it. Hyrax ranks findings by severity and effort, then delivers verified pull requests that change the number.
Free for open source, then per seat.
Free plan with a $30 starter credit and $10/month ongoing. Paid is $30 per user per month, and each paid user gets $30/month of credits.
FAQ
Questions about Codacy and Hyrax.
Yes, and most teams run both. Codacy keeps doing its job. Hyrax works at the level of the whole codebase, decides what is worth changing, and delivers verified pull requests. Nothing about the Codacy setup has to change.
Discovery writes HYRAX.md and a .hyrax/discovery directory, which document the architecture, conventions and risk areas of the codebase. Everything else arrives as a normal pull request on its own branch. Hyrax has no write access to the default branch.
The free plan includes full access, a $30 starter credit and $10/month of credits ongoing, with no card required. The paid plan is $30 per user per month, and each paid user gets $30/month of credits. Pull request reviews are included on every plan.
Installing the GitHub App and granting access to a repository takes a few minutes. Hyrax maps the codebase, then runs the first audit and returns findings ranked by severity and effort. The first verified pull requests follow once an audit is approved.
Build what you're proud to ship.
GitHub-native. Human-controlled. Verified before merge.