Comparison
Whale vs rea
rea has more GitHub stars (266,617 vs 932). rea was updated more recently (last commit 2h ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Whale
Whale — blazingly fast, terminal-first AI coding agent for DeepSeek. ~98% prompt cache hit rate, 1M context, MCP tools, dynamic workflows.
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npm install -g @usewhale/whale
rea
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries.
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npx -y rea-agents@latest analyze-javascript-application /absolute/path/to/app --json| Metric | Whale | rea |
|---|---|---|
| Type | MCP server | MCP server |
| GitHub stars | 932 | 266,617 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | n/a |
| Forks | 74 | 66,955 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | Go | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 2h ago |
| Created | May 2026 | Apr 2026 |
| Categories | AI & LLM tooling, Dev tools, Memory & knowledge | AI & LLM tooling, Memory & knowledge |