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- Home: 'index.md'
- Bot comparison: 'bot-comparison.md'
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- Reading List: 'reading-list.md'
- ... | getting-started
- Troubleshooting: 'troubleshooting.md'
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# Bot comparison
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This page explains the key differences between Renovate and Dependabot.

## Table

| Name of feature | Dependabot | Renovate |
| ---------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Dependency Dashboard | No | Yes |
| Grouped updates | Yes, create [`groups`](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#groups) manually | Yes, use community-provided groups, or create your own |
| Monorepo support | unknown | Yes |
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| Supported platforms | GitHub only | multiple |
| Supported languages | [List for Dependabot](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/about-dependabot-version-updates#supported-repositories-and-ecosystems) | [List for Renovate](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/) |
| Customizability | low | high |
| Show changelogs | yes | yes |
| Compatibility score badges | 1 | 4 |
| Built-in to GitHub | yes | no, requires app or self-hosting |
| Schedule interval | yes: `daily`, `weekly`, `monthly` | yes: custom |

## Dependency Dashboard

One big feature of Renovate is the Dependency Dashboard, which is enabled by default.
Read the [Key concepts, Dependency Dashboard](https://docs.renovatebot.com/key-concepts/dashboard/) page to learn more.

## Grouped updates

Renovate comes with community-provided groupings of dependencies, so it will group common dependencies out-of-the-box.
With Dependabot you'll have to set your own [`groups`](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#groups).

## Monorepo support

Renovate has a [`group:monorepos`](https://docs.renovatebot.com/presets-group/#groupmonorepos) preset, that groups dependencies from monorepos.

I don't know if Dependabot supports monorepos.
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## Supported platforms

Platform means the Git-hosting site or program, for example GitHub, GitLab or Azure.

Dependabot only works on GitHub.
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Renovate works on multiple platforms, including GitHub.
Read the [list of Renovate platforms](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/platform/) to learn more.

## Supported languages

- [Renovate's supported managers](https://docs.renovatebot.com/modules/manager/)
- [Dependabot's supported repositories and ecosystems](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/about-dependabot-version-updates#supported-repositories-and-ecosystems)

## Customizability

Both Renovate and Dependabot come with good default settings.

Renovate gives you more control over _when_ and _how_ you'll get the updates.
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Renovate gives you tools to reduce the "update noise", read our [Noise reduction](https://docs.renovatebot.com/noise-reduction/) page to learn more.

## Show changelogs

Renovate and Dependabot show changelogs in their PRs.

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## Compatiblity score badges

Dependabot shows one compatibility score badge.
This score tells you how many other repositories have passing CI tests for the proposed update.
Read the [GitHub Docs, Dependabot's compatibility scores](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-security-updates/about-dependabot-security-updates#about-compatibility-scores) to learn more about Dependabot's badge.

Renovate has four _Merge Confidence_ badges:

- **Age**: The age of the package
- **Adoption**: The percentage of this package's users (within Renovate) which are using this release
- **Passing**: The percentage of updates which have passing tests for this package
- **Confidence**: The confidence level for this update

Read the [Merge Confidence badges](https://docs.renovatebot.com/merge-confidence/) page to learn more.

## Built-in to GitHub vs app

Dependabot is built-in to GitHub, Renovate needs app installation or self-hosting.
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