Error Prone VS FindBugs

Compare Error Prone vs FindBugs and see what are their differences.

Error Prone

Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors (by google)

FindBugs

The new home of the FindBugs project (by findbugsproject)
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Error Prone FindBugs
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7,176 777
0.1% 0.0%
9.7 0.7
5 days ago 9 months ago
Java Java
Apache License 2.0 -
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Error Prone

Posts with mentions or reviews of Error Prone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-01.

FindBugs

Posts with mentions or reviews of FindBugs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning FindBugs yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Error Prone and FindBugs you can also consider the following projects:

Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.

SonarQube - Continuous Inspection

Checkstyle - Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. By default it supports the Google Java Style Guide and Sun Code Conventions, but is highly configurable. It can be invoked with an ANT task and a command line program.

infer - A static analyzer for Java, C, C++, and Objective-C

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