xDebug VS Kint

Compare xDebug vs Kint and see what are their differences.

xDebug

Xdebug — Step Debugger and Debugging Aid for PHP (by xdebug)

Kint

Kint - a powerful and modern PHP debugging tool. (by kint-php)
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xDebug Kint
27 1
3,043 2,740
0.7% 0.0%
8.9 7.3
16 days ago 5 months ago
PHP PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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xDebug

Posts with mentions or reviews of xDebug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-27.

Kint

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xDebug and Kint you can also consider the following projects:

PHPDBG

PHP Debug Bar - Debug bar for PHP

XHProf - XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP and has a simple HTML based user interface.

Tracy - 😎 Tracy: the addictive tool to ease debugging PHP code for cool developers. Friendly design, logging, profiler, advanced features like debugging AJAX calls or CLI support. You will love it.

PHP Console - PHP Debug Console

PHPBench - PHP Benchmarking framework

laravel-ray - Debug with Ray to fix problems faster in Laravel apps

Barbushin PHP Console - Handle PHP errors, dump variables, execute PHP code remotely in Google Chrome