Warclick vs Swarmia: See the Commits That Never Made It to a PR

• All branches captured — every push, every branch, tracked from the first commit — no PR required
• 10+ AI tools detected — commit-level, three-tier confidence, no per-tool integration setup
• 5–10× lower price — $4–$5/contributor/month vs €20–€39 for Swarmia

The 64 commits Swarmia doesn't see are not drafts or junk commits. They're real work — spikes, refactors, and iterations that happened before someone clicked "Open PR." If you only measure shipped PRs, you're coaching the paper, not the player.

The PR-centric coverage gap

Swarmia is built around the pull request lifecycle. Their help center is direct about it: commits pushed to a feature branch stay invisible in Swarmia until a PR is created. This is not a bug — it reflects a deliberate data model where the PR is the unit of work. That model works well for teams with strict PR hygiene where every meaningful change flows through a PR immediately.

It works less well for teams where commits happen before PRs get formalized. Spike branches. Exploratory work. Long-running feature branches that accumulate commits before review is ready. Hotfixes pushed directly. Commits that inform a future PR without becoming one. All of that is real work. Swarmia doesn't see it until a PR appears.

Warclick captures commit events at the webhook layer — every push to every branch, from the first commit. No PR required, no merge required, no ticket link required. If someone pushed it to GitHub, it's in your dashboard immediately.

All-branch reality

Warclick deduplicates by SHA — a commit that lives on three branches appears once in the count. Actor-first attribution means the authenticated GitHub pusher gets credit, not whatever email is in the git config. And squash-merge attribution preserves credit to the original author rather than rolling everything up to the tech lead who clicked "Merge."

A tool built around the PR workflow is a perfectly reasonable choice — if your team's output is perfectly captured by PRs. Most teams have a long tail of commits that exist to build the thing that eventually ships. That tail is the work.

AI coding tool detection: breadth vs. depth

Swarmia detects three tools — GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code — each requiring a separate integration setup. Detection happens at the PR level using a 24-hour activity window, which their documentation acknowledges can produce false positives when a developer uses an AI tool on one task and commits to a different branch concurrently.

Warclick takes a pattern-based approach from SCM activity alone. No integration keys, no 24-hour windows. We detect 10+ AI tools — including Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Cline, Continue, and others. Each detection lands in one of three confidence tiers: Confirmed (explicit machine-readable proof), Likely (strong behavioral signal), or Manual (no detectable AI signal). The three-tier model lets you act on the data you trust and flag the data you need to verify.

What Swarmia does that Warclick does not

Honest comparison requires saying this plainly. Swarmia ships things Warclick does not: Developer Experience surveys that collect qualitative and quantitative team feedback on a cadence, CI/CD pipeline analytics that surface build performance and pipeline cost trends, a Business Outcomes module for software capitalization and investment allocation reports, and GitLab support alongside GitHub. Enterprise plans add SSO, API access, and a dedicated Customer Success Manager.

Warclick is GitHub-only and read-only on the developer activity side — commits, PRs, code reviews. If your team needs developer experience surveys, CI analytics, or the ability to report engineering costs to finance, Swarmia ships capabilities we don't. That matters for some teams. It is worth knowing which category you are in before picking a tool.

Five contributors, one squash merge, all the credit goes to the tech lead who clicked "Merge." That's not Swarmia doing something wrong — that's what PR-level attribution looks like when the individual commits are absorbed into a single commit.

Pricing reality check

Swarmia publishes its prices at swarmia.com/pricing. Lite is €20 per developer per month (~$22 USD). Standard is €39 per developer per month (~$43 USD). Both are annual billing. Vendr reports a median annual contract value of $14,695.

Warclick is $4–$5 per active contributor per month with a $20/month minimum. For a 30-engineer team on Swarmia Standard, the annual cost is roughly $15,000. The same team on Warclick Commander runs roughly $1,800 per year.

* Based on swarmia.com/pricing and Vendr marketplace data, April 2026. USD equivalent calculated at April 2026 exchange rates. Your actual Swarmia quote may differ based on team size, modules selected, and contract length.

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