CodeRifts vs Optic
Optic was archived on January 12, 2026. It is now read-only and no longer maintained. CodeRifts is a maintained alternative for teams that need authorization and policy enforcement in addition to diffing: PR-native breaking change detection plus a grant that must exist before a contract change proceeds.
| Capability | CodeRifts | Optic (Archived) |
|---|---|---|
| Status | ✓ Active & Maintained | ✗ Archived (Jan 12, 2026) |
| Setup Time | ✓ 30 seconds | 30–60 minutes |
| Integration | ✓ Native GitHub App | CLI / GitHub Action |
| Configuration | ✓ one-click install; enforcement is a branch-protection setting | Requires optic.yml |
| Risk Scoring | ✓ 0–100 Risk Score | ✗ No |
| Policy Engine | ✓ Budgets, Freezes, Approvals | ✗ No |
| Security Analysis | ✓ Auth, PII and policy findings | ✗ No |
| Economic Cost Estimate | ✓ Dollar impact per change | ✗ No |
| Agent / Blast-Radius Impact | ✓ Which endpoints and schemas the change reaches — not which consumers call them. We do not observe your callers. | ✗ No |
| MCP / Agent-Native Delivery | ✓ Verdicts via MCP | ✗ No |
| Maintenance | ✓ Managed SaaS | ✗ Self-maintained |
Governance, not just detection
Optic detected breaking changes. So do oasdiff, SpecShield, and the other tools that appeared after Optic was archived. Detection tells you what changed, and stops there.
CodeRifts is a governance layer. On every pull request it does what detection tools do, then goes further: it scores the risk 0 to 100, estimates the economic cost of the change, identifies which declared or structurally referenced surfaces may be affected, and enforces your policy by blocking the merge or requiring approval. The same deterministic verdict every time, delivered as a PR comment, an API response, or an MCP tool call your agents can read.
The market shows you what changed. CodeRifts tells you how dangerous it is, who it affects, and whether to ship.
One honest note: Optic could also generate OpenAPI specs from live test traffic. If that was your main use, CodeRifts works from your committed spec instead, so you would pair it with a spec generator. For breaking-change detection and governance, it is a direct upgrade.
Why Optic Users are Migrating
The opticdev/optic repository is archived — read from the GitHub API on 2026-09-15: archived: true, last push 2026-01-08. An archived repository takes no security patches and no bug fixes, so a CI pipeline depending on it is frozen at that commit. (We previously wrote that Atlassian had acquired Optic. We could not verify that from a public source, and the repository is still under the opticdev owner, so the claim is withdrawn. What is verifiable is the archiving.)
- • No more security updates
- • No support for new OpenAPI features
- • Broken integrations with modern CI/CD
The CodeRifts Advantage
CodeRifts was built to pick up where Optic left off, One-click install. Enforcement is a branch-protection setting: the check on the pull request stays advisory until the repository requires it.
- • One-click GitHub App installation
- • Automated PR comments with risk scores
- • Configurable governance policies
Ready to migrate?
Migrate from Optic to CodeRifts in 30 seconds. No config files, no CI setup, no credit card required.
A diff tells you what changed. It does not tell you whether it may proceed.
During the public beta every organization gets Team features at $0 with a self-serve key, public and private repositories alike, no separate Team key to request, and each key allows 1,000 requests a month: after that, /preflight authorize returns BETA_LIMIT_REACHED while its analysis keeps working; other API routes return 429.