Compatibility with Renovate

The Count covers the managers most repositories on GitHub actually use, and does them fast. Renovate covers far more ground: more platforms, more managers, private registries and vulnerability alerts. This page says which is which, so you can tell whether your repositories will notice the switch.

Renovate's lists below come from its public documentation (version 44.174), never from its source. "Yes" means supported, "partial" says what is missing, and "no" means not yet. Some of the "no"s are deliberate, and departures explains why.

Platforms

Platform	Renovate	Count Patchula
GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server	yes	GitHub.com only
GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud and Server, Azure DevOps, Gitea, Forgejo	yes	no
CodeCommit, Gerrit, SCM-Manager, local	experimental	no

Managers

Managers the Count supports, under Renovate's names:

Renovate	Count Patchula	Notes
npm	npm	npm, pnpm, Yarn and Bun lockfiles, catalogs, overrides, packageManager
bun	bun, or npm	text bun.lock only, not bun.lockb
nvm, nodenv	npm	.nvmrc, .node-version
github-actions	github-actions	includes runner labels and setup-action version inputs
mise, asdf	mise	mise.toml, .tool-versions, mise.lock
cargo	cargo
rust-toolchain	cargo
gomod	go	indirect requirements too; no /vN module path migrations
dockerfile	dockerfile
docker-compose	compose
kubernetes	kubernetes	on by default; Renovate needs file patterns
kustomize	kustomize
flux	flux
helm-values	helm-values
helmv3	helm	partial: Chart.lock is not regenerated
terraform	terraform	public registry only; no git modules
terraform-version	terraform
pip_requirements	requirements
pip-compile	requirements	partial: inputs are read, pip-compile is not run
pep621, poetry	pyproject	uv and Poetry lockfiles regenerated
pyenv	pyproject	.python-version
pre-commit	pre-commit	GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea and Forgejo hooks
devcontainer	devcontainer
maven	maven
gradle	gradle	catalogs, scripts, variables, gradle.properties; gradle.lockfile not regenerated
gradle-wrapper	gradle	the wrapper checksum is refreshed
nuget	nuget
bundler	bundler	gems without a requirement are left to lockfile maintenance
ruby-version	bundler
composer	composer
regex	regex	Pkl extractors

Renovate managers with no Count equivalent yet:

ansible, ansible-galaxy, ant, apm, argocd, azure-pipelines, batect, batect-wrapper, bazel, bazel-module, bazelisk, bicep, bitbucket-pipelines, bitrise, buildkite, buildpacks, bun-version, cake, cdnurl, circleci, cloudbuild, cocoapods, conan, copier, cpanfile, crossplane, crow, deno, deps-edn, devbox, droneci, fleet, fvm, git-submodules, gitlabci, gitlabci-include, glasskube, gleam, haskell-cabal, helm-requirements, helmfile, helmsman, hermit, homeassistant-manifest, homebrew, html, jenkins, jsonata, jsonnet-bundler, kotlin-script, leiningen, maven-wrapper, meteor, mint, mix, nix, ocb, osgi, pep723, pip_setup, pipenv, pixi, proto, pub, puppet, quadlet, runtime-version, sbt, scalafmt, setup-cfg, smithy, sveltos, swift, tekton, terragrunt, terragrunt-version, tflint-plugin, travis, typst, unity3d, vendir, velaci, woodpecker, xcodegen.

renovate-config has no equivalent on purpose: the Count's config is Pkl, and he does not read Renovate presets.

Datasources

Renovate	Count Patchula
npm	npm
crate	crates
go	go
pypi	pypi
docker	docker, and oci for OCI Helm charts
helm	helm
terraform-provider, terraform-module	terraform
github-releases, github-tags	the same, through mise-versions when possible
github-runners	github-runners
gitlab-tags, gitea-tags, forgejo-tags	forge-tags
maven, gradle-version	maven, and the wrapper through mise
nuget, dotnet-version	nuget, and the SDK through github-releases
rubygems, ruby-version	rubygems, and Ruby through mise
packagist	packagist
node-version, golang-version, python-version, rust-version	mise

The rest of Renovate's 82 datasources (git-refs, git-tags, the GitLab and Gitea release sources, artifactory, conda, hex, dart, pod, cdnjs, endoflife-date, repology, deb, rpm, apk, AWS and Azure sources, custom and others) have no equivalent. The Count also has a mise source of his own, resolving tools through mise's registry.

Versioning

Renovate	Count Patchula
npm, cargo, semver	semver, with separate npm and Cargo requirement parsers
docker	docker
pep440, poetry	pep440, poetry
gomod, go-mod-directive	go
hashicorp	hashicorp
maven, gradle	maven
nuget	nuget
ruby	rubygems
composer	composer
loose	loose

Renovate's other schemes, including regex versioning, node, debian, ubuntu, semver-coerced and same-major, have no equivalent.

Lockfiles

Lockfile	Renovate	Count Patchula
package-lock.json	npm	aube by default, npm with npmEngine = "npm"
pnpm-lock.yaml	pnpm	aube
yarn.lock	Yarn	Yarn
bun.lock	Bun	Bun
bun.lockb	Bun	no
Cargo.lock, go.sum, .terraform.lock.hcl	yes	yes
uv.lock, poetry.lock	yes	yes
packages.lock.json, Gemfile.lock, composer.lock	yes	yes
mise.lock	not listed in its docs	yes
Chart.lock, gradle.lockfile	yes	no
Pipfile.lock, pdm.lock and others	yes	no

Features

Feature	Renovate	Count Patchula
Config format	JSON or JSON5 with presets	Pkl, with amends and import instead of presets
Onboarding PR	yes	no; repositories opt in with a config file
Config migration PRs	yes	no
packageRules	yes	rules, with typed selectors
Grouping	groupName	group
Separate PRs per update type	separateMajorMinor and friends	one PR per update line by default
rangeStrategy	auto, pin, bump, replace, widen, ...	versions: exact, preserve or widen
Digest pinning	opt-in	on by default for actions and images
minimumReleaseAge	off by default	waitHours, 24 by default
Schedules	natural language and cron	cron windows with a timezone
PR limits	prConcurrentLimit, prHourlyLimit	concurrent, perHour, unlimited by default
rebaseWhen	several modes	conflicts or behind
Automerge	branch, PR or PR comment, native or not	native auto-merge, or a checked fallback on a later run
Dependency dashboard	yes	yes
Dashboard approval	yes	create a held-back update from the dashboard
Lockfile maintenance	yes	yes
Release notes	yes	yes, with mention and backlink suppression
Custom regex managers	yes	yes
JSONata managers, custom datasources	yes	no
Private registries, hostRules	yes	no; tool environments are scrubbed
postUpgradeTasks	yes, admin-allowed	no, on purpose
Vulnerability alerts, OSV	yes	no
Merge confidence	Mend beta	no
Abandonment detection	yes	no
Replacement PRs	yes	no
Draft PRs	yes	no
Commit signing	configurable author	always API commits signed by GitHub
Batch PR by checkbox	no	yes
Machine-readable output	logs	a versioned JSON report
Self-hosted server	Renovate CE, the Mend app	patchula --server

Performance

On six large public repositories, on the same EC2 instance, the Count was 6.1 times faster than Renovate 44.173.1 cold and 18.5 times faster warm, at a fifth to a sixteenth of the memory. Coverage, measured as unique dependency names, matched closely on four of them. The benchmarks page has the numbers and the method.