| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Linters | 7.9 (#12) | 7.8 (#15) |
| Installation | The project recommends installing the cpplint package from PyPI and documents installation as a uv tool. | The docs recommend adding Credo as a Mix dependency with `only: [:dev, :test]` and `runtime: false`. |
| Integrations | Cpplint can run as a pre-commit hook and is included in MegaLinter, an open-source linter aggregator for CI. | The maker lists integrations for IntelliJ, Atom, VS Code, Emacs, Kakoune, Neovim, and Codacy. |
| License | The package is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license. | Credo is released under the MIT License. |
| Purpose | Cpplint is a command-line tool that checks C/C++ files for style issues according to Google’s C++ style guide. | Credo is a static code analysis tool for Elixir focused on code consistency and teaching. |
