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Read about the repo, or watch it run?
DeepWiki, from Cognition, writes a free AI wiki for any public repository: pages of prose about what the code does. pyrovue starts the repository instead, and draws its structure from the imports with no AI. One explains the code; the other shows it working and how it fits together.
Side by side
Two ways into an unfamiliar codebase.
| What | pyrovue | DeepWiki |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | The app running, a terminal, the files, a Code Map and a guided tour | An AI-written wiki of the repository, and a search you can ask questions |
| How structure is found | Computed from the imports: layers, clusters, hotspots and import cycles, the same every time | Written by a language model from the code |
| Can you run it? | Yes: installed, started and checked before you see the preview | No: it describes the code |
| Private repositories | Your GitHub repositories, in private boxes | Through a Devin account |
| Cost | Free plan with 20 box-hours a month; Pro $14 a month | Free for public repositories |
DeepWiki's features and terms as described in Cognition's announcement of it, checked in November 2026. Replacing github.com with deepwiki.com in a repository's URL opens its wiki.
When to pick which
Use the wiki for why, the map for what.
An AI wiki is quick to read and good at answering "what is this project for". It can also be wrong in ways that are hard to spot, because nothing checks the prose against the code.
The Code Map is exact about structure because it's computed: which files the rest depend on, which groups work together, where the import cycles are. Running the app answers the questions no description can, like whether it starts, what the screens look like and what the logs say. Many people use both.
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