# Comparing different metric/param/plot files

**URL:** <https://discuss.dvc.org/t/comparing-different-metric-param-plot-files/582>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/comparing-different-metric-param-plot-files/582 "2020-12-10T06:47:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![quentin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47c2d/32.png) [@quentin](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/quentin)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/comparing-different-metric-param-plot-files/582/1 "2020-12-10T06:47:37Z")

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Is it possible to perform a diff on 2 distinct metric/param/plot files or only the same file can be compared across branch/commit? The scenario is if instead of having my experiments on different branches I have them on different folders.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![dmitry](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discuss.dvc.org/dmitry/32/7_2.png) [@dmitry](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/dmitry)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/comparing-different-metric-param-plot-files/582/2 "2020-12-10T08:06:30Z")

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@quentin that a good scenario! We discussed this with @Paffciu briefly but I’m not sure the discussion was reflected in any issues.

Could you please add a comment to this one [https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/4446](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/4446)? I can do this by myself but a comment from a user gives more value to an issue 🙂

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**Author:** ![Paffciu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@Paffciu](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/Paffciu)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/comparing-different-metric-param-plot-files/582/3 "2020-12-10T10:20:36Z")

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Hi @quentin!  
@dmitry is right, we have been discussing it, but did not create issue. I did one now:

> <https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/5074>
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> In some use cases
> user might want to compare different metrics in different paths.
> We need to discuss if and how we are...

Could I ask you to chime in and describe your use case?  
For example, is it possible that you might want to compare `metric1.json` from `branch1` with `metric2.json` from `branch2`? Or is comparison happening only on the same revision?