# Compare: any two teams, people, or windows

_Published July 23, 2026_

**By [Eugenio Sanchez](https://mesmer.co/resources/author/eugenio)**

**Section:** Feature release

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Reading two teams against each other used to mean opening one view,
memorizing the numbers, then opening another and doing the math in your
head. Compare puts them on the same screen.

Turn on **Compare** on the [Metrics page](/resources/metrics-page) and
it splits into two columns, A and B, each with its own scope and its own
date range. Point them wherever you want:

- Team against team
- One person against another
- The same team across two different windows

It works on every tab.

![Mesmer's Metrics page in Compare mode on the Overview tab. Two columns sit side by side: column A (blue) scoped to Mesmer, 8 people, over the last 2 weeks, and column B (plum) scoped to Core, 5 people, over the same window, with the Normalized toggle on. Each column shows metric tiles — Effort Score, Contributions, PRs Merged, and PR Cycle Time — above a 'Total effort over time' line chart. A center gutter reports how the two sides relate: Effort A < B +19%, Contributions A > B +41%, PRs merged A < B +30%, and Cycle time A < B +8%.](/blog/compare.png)

Are the two time windows different? Or is one team larger than the
other? Don't worry — just enable the **Normalized** toggle and all data
appears normalized to one person per day, so you're always comparing
apples to apples.

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Canonical: https://mesmer.co/resources/compare-metrics