comparison

Twelve capabilities. Nine tools. Honest marks.

Including the rows where the others win — two of them are rows inup loses outright. Verified against each tool's own documentation on 2026-07-09.

10/12

inup

7/12

ncu

6/12

taze

3/12

PM built-ins

capabilityinupncutazePM built-ins

One tool for npm, yarn, pnpm & bun

Interactive upgrade UI

Monorepos & workspaces

Vulnerability audit in the pickeronly inup

Changelogs in the terminalonly inup

Search & dep-type toggles in the UIonly inup

pnpm catalogs, comments preserved

CI gate + JSON report

GitHub Action includedonly inup

Actively maintained (2026)

Doctor mode (test each upgrade)inup loses

Per-package upgrade rulesinup loses

"PM built-ins" = yarn upgrade-interactive,pnpm update -i, bun update -i,deno outdated -i — each works with its own package manager only, so the score counts a capability only where that built-in provides it for its own ecosystem.

head-to-heads

vs npm-check-updatesThe closest tool. Mature rules and doctor mode, no audit in the picker.vs tazeModern, catalog-aware, per-package rules. No audit, no changelogs.vs npm-checkFinds unused dependencies. Not published since July 2022.vs PM built-insOne per package manager, four to learn. No audit, no changelogs.vs RenovateAn always-on bot that opens PRs. inup is the local pass.vs DependabotGitHub's built-in bot. Hosted, scheduled, no interactive choice.vs updatesFast, multi-ecosystem, non-interactive. A checker, not a picker.vs npm-upgradeInteractive and changelog-aware, but npm-only and single-package.

Nothing to migrate.

inup reads the same manifests these tools do — no config file, no lockfile rewrite. Run it once and compare the output yourself.