MergepatrolMergepatrol vs Aviator MergeQueue
Aviator sells MergeQueue alongside stacked-PR tooling (the open-source
av CLI) and other developer workflow products. Mergepatrol is a merge queue only, with a coding
agent for conflicts and failed checks. Checked against Aviator’s
docs and
pricing on 31 October 2026.
At a glance
| Aviator MergeQueue | Mergepatrol | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Team $20 a developer a month (parallel queues, batching); Scale $50 (affected targets); Enterprise custom. A free plan covers up to 3 repos; the pricing page does not say it includes MergeQueue | Public repos free; private repos $15 a seat a month after a 14-day trial; self-hosted free |
| Parallel testing | Parallel mode: a draft PR per queued PR, stacked on the ones ahead | No speculative builds: one batch of up to batch_size PRs (8 by default) |
| Batching | A failed batch is re-queued as two halves | A failed batch is split in half down to the PR that broke it |
| Monorepos | Affected targets, on Scale | One queue per branch; no per-target queues |
| A PR that conflicts | Back to its author: we found no conflict agent in its docs | An agent resolves the conflict, checked by your verify commands |
| A required check that fails | Back to its author | An agent commits a fix on the PR, up to fix_ci.attempts times |
| Stacked PRs | With the av CLI; a stack is validated as one PR | With gh stack; a stack merges all at once |
| Source | Proprietary SaaS; av CLI open source | Apache-2.0, self-hostable |
Where Aviator is the better fit
- Large monorepos. Affected targets let unrelated changes skip each other’s queue, and parallel mode runs a build per queued PR.
- You already stack with
av.
Where Mergepatrol is the better fit
- Conflicts and failed checks are what slow your queue, not CI throughput. Mergepatrol’s agent keeps those pull requests in line instead of sending them back.
- You want no CI changes. Batches run on a draft PR with your existing
pull_requestworkflows. - You want to self-host, or pay nothing on public repositories.
FAQ
Does Aviator resolve conflicts with AI? We found no conflict or CI-fix agent in Aviator’s MergeQueue docs as of 31 October 2026. Its AI feature, Verify, checks that a change matches its intent.