Comparison
Drift vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (266,617 vs 791). rea was updated more recently (last commit 7h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Drift
Codebase intelligence for AI. Detects patterns & conventions + remembers decisions across sessions. MCP server for any IDE. Offline CLI.
$
git clone https://github.com/dadbodgeoff/drift
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
$
npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | Drift | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 791 | 266,617 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | n/a |
| Forks | 65 | 66,955 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 7h ago |
| Created | Jan 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | Dev tools, Memory & knowledge, AI & LLM tooling | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |