copydetect

6.5easy start · #8 of 23
in Code Clone Detection Tools

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Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on api, Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows.

copydetect is ranked #8 of 23 in code clone detection tools on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows.

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Free plan: Yes
Clone detection method: token
Scan scope: repository
CI integration: No
IDE integration: No
Self-hosted option: Yes

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The record

Purpose: Copydetect is a code plagiarism detection tool that compares code directories and generates an HTML report showing copied slices.
Detection method: It uses the Winnowing document-fingerprinting approach used by the MOSS platform.
Language coverage: Pygments tokenization gives copydetect support for all 500+ languages that Pygments can detect and tokenize.
Installation: The package is installed with pip and requires Python 3.7 or greater.
Command line: The simplest command-line usage is copydetect -t DIRS, which recursively searches supplied directories and compares files.
Reference code: Separate reference directories can be supplied, including previous submissions, and boilerplate directories can exclude provided code from plagiarism matches.
Filtering: Tokenization and filtering replace variable names with V, function names with F, object names with O, and strings with S.
Sensitivity controls: Noise, guarantee, and display thresholds tune what matching code is detected and shown in reports.
Python API: Copydetect provides a Python API with CopyDetector, CodeFingerprint, compare_files, and HTML report generation.
Output customization: Reports can be saved to a specified output path, highlighted code can be truncated, and custom CSS files can be linked.
Detection limitation: The documentation says copydetect identifies likely plagiarism, is not guaranteed to catch dedicated evasion, and does not prove plagiarism occurred.
License: The package is released under the MIT License.
Audience: PyPI classifies copydetect as intended for Education and as a Beta development-status project.
Platform support: PyPI classifies the package as operating-system independent and Python 3 only.

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Sources

copydetect.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html· checked 1 Oct 2026
pypi.org/project/copydetect/· checked 1 Oct 2026
github.com/blingenf/copydetect· checked 1 Oct 2026
copydetect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html· checked 1 Oct 2026