# Composal vs CodeScene

CodeScene evaluates source change risk and code health. Composal observes the application through a browser, checking user requirements and capturing run evidence. These answer different quality questions.

## Composal

Composal sends AI browser agents to use your running web app and check the outcomes you care about. Define journeys as plain-English Scenarios, map existing flows with Discovery, or explore for bugs with Deep Scan. Runs keep recordings and reproduction steps so your team or coding agent can investigate a Finding.

[Verify documentation](https://composal.com/docs/verify)

## CodeScene

Behavioral code analysis and pull request quality gates

CodeScene analyzes code health and change risk, then reports reviews, annotations, and quality gates on supported pull request platforms, including GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps.

## What each tool does

| Workflow | Composal | CodeScene |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Run browser journeys](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Run saved browser Scenarios and return recordings and reproducible Findings. | × No: The documented product reviews or analyzes source changes; it does not execute browser journeys. |
| [Map application workflows](https://composal.com/product/discovery) | ✓ Yes: Discovery maps key application areas and user journeys. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Explore for unexpected issues](https://composal.com/product/deep-scan) | ✓ Yes: Deep Scan explores the running application and reports reproducible issues. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Describe checks in plain English](https://composal.com/product/scenarios) | ✓ Yes: Author Scenarios around the intended user outcome, then review the steps and expected results. | – Not confirmed: Check whether this product includes this workflow in your intended plan and setup. |
| [Run or inspect from a terminal](https://composal.com/product/cli) | ✓ Yes: Use the CLI to start and inspect verification runs and their Findings. | – With setup: Connect its specialist checks to your development workflow using supported integrations. |
| Source code review and analysis | × No: Use a dedicated tool for this specialist workflow alongside Composal’s browser verification. | ✓ Yes: CodeScene analyzes code health and change risk, then reports reviews, annotations, and quality gates on supported pull request platforms, including GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. |

With setup means you supply code or configuration. Not confirmed means support for this workflow needs checking with the vendor.

## Where each fits

Choose CodeScene when architectural hotspots, code health, and change-risk feedback are central. Choose Composal when teams need browser Scenarios, exploratory QA, and clear reproduction steps alongside those checks.

## Try this evaluation

Pick a change in a historically complex area. Review CodeScene risk feedback, then use the same preview in Composal to test a critical journey. Compare code-risk signals with actual user-visible regressions.

### Coverage

Which user outcomes must this release prove, and which specialist checks must stay in your existing stack?

### Setup

Who prepares accounts, test data, permissions and access to the deployment being tested?

### Evidence

Can the engineer reproduce a reported failure from the recording and steps, without asking the tester to investigate again?

### Ownership

Who updates the checks when the product changes, and can the team review what a passing result actually proves?

## Related comparisons

- [Composal vs Review Board](https://composal.com/compare/composal-vs-review-board.md)
- [Composal vs Gerrit Code Review](https://composal.com/compare/composal-vs-gerrit.md)
- [Composal vs reviewdog](https://composal.com/compare/composal-vs-reviewdog.md)

[All comparisons](https://composal.com/compare.md)