Rich Results Test vs GSC URL Inspection: which render do you trust?

Rich Results Test vs GSC URL Inspection: which render do you trust?

Both show you Google's rendered view, but they pull differently. I diffed them on a JS-heavy page.

Rich Results Test fetches a live render right now from Googlebot's renderer, great for verifying a fix you just shipped. URL Inspection's "View crawled page" shows the last indexed render, which may be stale by days.

Pros (RRT): live, no GSC verification needed, shows rendered HTML + screenshot.
Cons (RRT): no indexing status, no history, structured-data focus.
Pros (Inspection): tied to indexing verdict, shows what's actually in the index.
Cons (Inspection): cached/stale render, property-verified only.

Best for: ship a fix, confirm the render with Rich Results Test immediately, then use Inspection days later to verify Google re-indexed the new version. Don't debug "why isn't my new content indexed" off the stale Inspection render. 4/5.