How to compare a Salesforce object between two orgs

Short answer: to check whether an object is the same in a sandbox and production, you open it in Object Manager in both orgs and compare field by field. doDev, a free Chrome extension, compares the whole object in one go and highlights what differs.

Compare Objects in doDev: picklist values that differ between two orgs, with the tree of changed sections

Compare it with doDev

Install doDev and log into both orgs in the same browser.
Open doDev and go to Compare → Objects.
Type the object, e.g. Account, and pick the two orgs.
Click Compare object.

You get, with the differences highlighted:

Object settings and every field attribute – type, length, required, unique, formula, default, help text and more.
Picklist values, also per record type.
Record types, validation rules, triggers, record-triggered flows, page layouts and Lightning pages.
A tree of all differences by section, and the sections that are identical in both orgs.

From an object’s page in Find Any Metadata, ⇄ Compare with opens this comparison straight away.

Doing it without a tool

Open the object in Object Manager in both orgs and compare each field’s settings, or retrieve the object with the Salesforce CLI from both orgs and compare the .object-meta.xml and field files.

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