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Comparison · Infra & APIs
Clair vs Currents
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Clair and Currents — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Clair vs Currents: at a glance
What is Clair?
Clair 4.10 RC can read SBOMs to match Java vulnerabilities.
Clair cut its first 4.10.0 release candidate on November 13, eleven months after 4.9.0. Its Java indexers can now read CycloneDX SBOM files and treat them as the source of truth, and Red Hat's VEX data now covers Maven advisories, so Java packages in Red Hat images can be matched. It also reduces memory use when many packages share a source package.
What is Currents?
Currents starts recording any agent task, not just Playwright test runs.
Currents built a Playwright test dashboard and has spent the autumn opening it to agents: shareable failure links, scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, run attachments, a trace API and listings in the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories. On November 12 it added Sessions, where an agent saves the browser recording or files from any task and gets one link with a page for people and a Markdown version for other agents.
Clair vs Currents: editorial side-by-side
Clair
2.5INFRA · APIS
Clair 4.10 RC can read SBOMs to match Java vulnerabilities.
◆ Current state
Clair cut its first 4.10.0 release candidate on November 13, eleven months after 4.9.0. Its Java indexers can now read CycloneDX SBOM files and treat them as the source of truth, and Red Hat's VEX data now covers Maven advisories, so Java packages in Red Hat images can be matched. It also reduces memory use when many packages share a source package.
◆ Where it's heading
Since 4.8 Clair has moved from Red Hat's older OVAL data to VEX, and each release follows Red Hat's security data more closely. 4.10 adds SBOMs as an input, so Clair can match what an image's own manifest declares, not only what it finds on disk.
◆ Prediction
More 4.10 release candidates and then a final are likely; the long gap between releases suggests that could take weeks.
Currents
7.5INFRA · APIS
Currents starts recording any agent task, not just Playwright test runs.
◆ Current state
Currents built a Playwright test dashboard and has spent the autumn opening it to agents: shareable failure links, scoped tokens, a hosted MCP server with OAuth, run attachments, a trace API and listings in the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories. On November 12 it added Sessions, where an agent saves the browser recording or files from any task and gets one link with a page for people and a Markdown version for other agents.
◆ Where it's heading
Until now every release made test results easier for agents to read. Sessions turns the direction around: agents write their own work into Currents, and the product's scope widens from CI test runs to a record of what agents did. The pattern of pairing a human page with a Markdown twin, first used for failure links in September, is now the product's standard output.
◆ Prediction
Expect Sessions to be wired into the existing pull request comment and MCP server next, since earlier releases connected each new artifact to both within weeks.
Alternatives to Clair and Currents
Other Infra & APIs products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Clair or Currents.
Payload CMS
Payload's v4 beta.9 keeps every past image crop and raises the Node floor again.
Nautobot
Nautobot 3.3 alpha 2 adds test helpers and a cable location filter after 3.2.9's token-leak fix.
Shuffle
Shuffle tags builds almost daily, but the notes are empty.
KrakenD
KrakenD's community edition is shipping only dependency bumps.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor's recent releases are mostly about patching CVEs.
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Recent activity from Clair and Currents
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 12h agoClairClair 4.10 RC reads CycloneDX SBOMs for Java matching
- 2d agoCurrentsSessions: agents save task recordings to one shareable link ⚡
- 11d agoCurrents[New] Connect Currents from the Claude and ChatGPT/Codex plugin directories
- 26d agoCurrents[Improved] A better GitHub run comment
- 26d agoCurrents[New] Project Overview
- 1mo agoCurrents[New] Trace API for agents ⚡
- 1mo agoCurrents[New] Run attachments
- 11mo agoClairClair 4.9 moves CVSS data to NVD's 2.0 feeds
- 2y agoClairClair 4.8 replaces Red Hat OVAL data with VEX
- 2y agoClairClair 4.7.4 changes the default layer download location
- 2y agoClairClair 4.7.3 requires TLS 1.2 or newer
- 3y agoClairClair 4.7.2 drops the retired CRDA source
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Clair and Currents?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Currents is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Clair better than Currents?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Currents is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Clair?
Top Clair alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Clair alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/clair for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Currents?
Top Currents alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Currents alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/currents-dev for the full list with editorial commentary on each.