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Pipie vs Stoat
Offers CI/CD notifications and observability, not artifact preview links.
PipieSmart CI/CD notifications and observability for GitHub & GitLab
StoatTurn pull request comments into developer dashboards.Which to pick
Pick Pipie if you want…
- Smart Slack notifications for CI/CD
- Integrations with GitLab, Honeycomb or Datadog (on Pipie's list, not Stoat's)
Pick Stoat if you want…
- Pull-request dashboards for build metrics
- The lower starting price: $20/month against $30/month
- Open-source code (stoat-dev/stoat-action on GitHub, MIT license)
- Integrations with Jira or SQL (on Stoat's list, not Pipie's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Pipie:Pipie delivers filtered Slack notifications, pipeline analytics, and OpenTelemetry export for GitHub and GitLab CI/CD.
- Stoat:Stoat aggregates build artifacts and metrics into GitHub pull request comments.
- Best for
- Pipie:Smart Slack notifications for CI/CD
- Stoat:Pull-request dashboards for build metrics
- Who it’s for
- Pipie:Engineering teams using GitHub or GitLab who want focused CI/CD alerts in Slack.
- Stoat:Developers using GitHub CI who want instant build insight in PRs.
- Pricing
- Pipie:Freemium
- Stoat:Freemium
- Plans
- Pipie:Free $0 · Pro Plan $30 per month · Business Plus Plan $150 per month
- Stoat:Free $0 · Basic $20/mo per month · Custom Plans $100-$1000+/mo per month
- Open source
- Pipie:—
- Stoat:Yes, 69 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Pipie:GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana, Claude Code
- Stoat:GitHub, Slack, Jira, SQL
Pipie features
- Smart Slack notifications. Lua-based rules filter events by branch, author, status and more, delivering only relevant alerts to personal or team channels.
- Cross-repository rules. Define notification preferences once and apply them across multiple repositories.
- Pipeline analytics (coming soon). Visual insights such as job duration analysis and bottleneck detection powered by ClickHouse.
- OpenTelemetry export. Export CI/CD traces to Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana or any OTLP-compatible backend.
- Claude Code integration. AI-assisted debugging alerts delivered directly to the Claude Code terminal.
- GitHub & GitLab support. Unified experience for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD events, including PR/MR lifecycle updates.
Stoat features
- Preview Build Artifacts. Link test results, coverage reports, and docs previews directly from a PR comment.
- Job Time Tracking. Show a graph of GitHub job durations in pull request comments.
- Metric Aggregation & Charts. Collect and visualise custom metrics from your builds.
- Comment Templating. Customize the content and layout of generated PR comments.
- Image Diffs. Display visual diffs of generated images within PR comments.
- Static Preview Hosting. Host preview files with optional GitHub or SSO authentication.
Pipie vs Stoat FAQ
Is Pipie or Stoat free?+
Pipie has a free plan; paid plans start at $30/month (Pro Plan). Stoat has a free plan; paid plans start at $20/month (Basic).
Which is cheaper, Pipie or Stoat?+
Stoat is cheaper to start with: Stoat's Basic plan ($20/month) against Pipie's Pro Plan plan ($30/month).
Is Pipie or Stoat open source?+
Stoat is open source (stoat-dev/stoat-action on GitHub, MIT license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Pipie.
Do Pipie and Stoat integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list GitHub and Slack. Pipie also lists GitLab, Honeycomb, Datadog, Grafana and 1 more; Stoat also lists Jira and SQL.
On DevHunt
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