# StackRadar vs Renovate

Keep Renovate. It lands the clean bumps; StackRadar’s agents fix and merge the PRs it leaves behind.

## Where Renovate shines

- Config as code in your repo, with presets a whole org can share.
- Grouped updates and automerge: patch and minor bumps land on green CI without a human.
- minimumReleaseAge holds fresh releases back, a soak before the PR even opens.
- The dependency dashboard collects the whole picture into one issue.
- Free, open source, and at home on GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.

## Where the backlog rots

Automerge has one rule: the change must pass untouched. A renamed API, a breaking major, a config migration: those PRs open, fail or wait, and age.

- Majors sit behind review while the diff nobody wrote gets bigger.
- The same CVE arrives from Renovate, Dependabot, and your scanner as three separate items.
- Nobody closes the noise, so the list stops being read.

## What StackRadar adds

- Agents make the code change: call sites updated, configs migrated, big majors landed as small, sequenced PRs.
- One ranked backlog across your scanners, deduped, with noise closed for reasons you can read and reverse.
- Merges the agents’ changes under policy: your CI gates a diff automerge could never produce, and one click opens the revert PR.

## Better together

StackRadar does not ask you to switch. Renovate keeps opening PRs; StackRadar ingests them as a source, finishes the ones that need code, and merges under rules you set. Your config, your CI, your call.

Where StackRadar runs today: GitHub, fixing npm, Composer, and Python; Go, Rust, Java, Ruby, and .NET are planned.

Start a free trial: https://stackradar.com/signup · Full comparison: https://stackradar.com/compare/renovate/