AI code review pricing, compared (checked October 2026)

I went through every vendor’s pricing page this week (October 2026) because the numbers I had in my head were already wrong: CodeRabbit renamed Pro to Essentials, Cursor is dropping Bugbot’s seat fee for usage billing, and Copilot code review bills in AI credits plus GitHub Actions minutes. Below is AI code review pricing as the vendors state it today, what a 10-person and a 50-person team would pay, and the line item none of them put on the page: the time your reviewers spend reading the bot. (Disclosure: we build Pyor, which is on this list but isn’t an AI reviewer, so read the last sections with that in mind.)

AI code review pricing at a glance

Prices are USD before tax, from each vendor’s own pricing page or docs, checked October 2026. I skipped the aggregator sites because they disagree with each other and with the vendors.

CodeRabbit pricing

CodeRabbit charges per developer, and only for developers who create pull requests, which is a fair definition if half your org reviews but rarely authors. Essentials (the plan that used to be called Pro) is $24 a developer a month billed annually or $30 monthly, and covers review, chat, learnings, one-click fixes and pre-merge checks. Team is $48 annually or $60 monthly and adds unit test generation, Triage and custom pre-merge checks. Advanced is listed at $72 and adds security and blast-radius features, and Enterprise is contact sales.

The number to check is the hourly allowance: 5 reviews per developer per hour on Essentials, 8 on Team, 10 on Advanced, under a fair usage policy. Past that, reviews keep going as usage at $0.25 per reviewed file, and an admin picks automatic, on demand, or off and sets a monthly spending cap. Private repos get a 14-day trial and no free plan, while public repositories get free reviews. For the wider comparison see CodeRabbit alternatives.

Greptile pricing

Greptile is $30 per seat a month on Pro, with 50 credits per seat and $1 for every extra credit. Credits map to review depth: a base review costs 1 credit, a Plus review 3, and an Apex review 10, so 50 credits is 50 base reviews, about 16 Plus reviews, or 5 Apex reviews. A seat is “any developer who has gotten a review done by Greptile in that billing period”, so a contractor who opens one PR in March is a seat in March.

The free Starter plan covers one active developer with 50 credits a month and unlimited repos, which is a real option for a solo dev. Qualified non-commercial open source with an OSI-approved license is free, pre-Series A startups under $2M in trailing revenue get 50% off, and Enterprise (including self-hosting) is custom. More context in Greptile alternatives.

GitHub Copilot code review pricing

Copilot code review has no price of its own; it comes with a Copilot plan. For individuals that is Pro at $10 a month, Pro+ at $39, or Max at $100; Copilot Free does not include it. For orgs, GitHub’s docs list Business at $19 per granted seat a month with 1,900 AI credits per user, and Enterprise at $39 with 3,900. One AI credit is one cent.

Each review spends credits, and GitHub’s own estimate is $0.05 to $1 of credits per review on Lite effort and $0.25 to $5 on Balanced, rising with PR size and custom instructions. On top of that, the agentic review runs on GitHub Actions, so on private repositories it draws Actions minutes from June 1, 2026 (self-hosted runners do not). PR authors without a Copilot license can get reviews too, billed to the org as AI credits, but an admin has to turn on two policies first. If your team already pays for Copilot, the seat cost is already sunk; see Copilot code review alternatives for how it stacks up on depth.

Graphite pricing

Graphite is a whole PR platform (stacking, merge queue, insights) with an AI reviewer in it, so you are paying for more than review. Hobby is free for personal-account repos with limited AI reviews. Starter is $20 per user a month and Team is $40, both billed annually; Starter has limited AI reviews and Team has unlimited reviews and chat, plus the merge queue and automations. Enterprise is custom.

The pricing page has a 20%-off annual toggle but only shows the annual figures, never says what “limited” means as a number, and bills “per user” without defining a user. Team has a 30-day trial, so you can find out before you commit. If the platform pull is the concern, read Graphite alternatives.

Cursor Bugbot pricing

Cursor announced in May 2026 that it is removing Bugbot seat fees and moving to purely usage-based billing, with existing customers switching at their first renewal after June 8, 2026. Cursor puts the average run at $1.00 to $1.50 depending on PR size and complexity. Billing is per run, so a PR reviewed again after new pushes costs another run.

The pricing page marks Bugbot as included on Premium ($30 a month), Super ($100), Ultra ($200), Teams ($30+ per user) and Enterprise, and not on Free or Plus. It does not publish a per-review rate card, and the Bugbot docs say teams bill from prepaid credit, so you have to budget from your own run count.

What a 10-person and a 50-person team would pay

Assumptions, so you can swap in your own: every developer opens PRs (so every developer is a seat everywhere), annual billing where it is offered, list prices, no overages, and for Bugbot 20 runs per developer a month.

Overages are where these totals move. With the same 20 PRs per developer on Greptile using Plus reviews, each developer spends 60 credits against 50 included, and the 10 extra credits each add $100 a month for 10 developers and $500 for 50. On Copilot, Business includes $19 of credits per user, and at the top of GitHub’s Balanced estimate four big reviews use that up. Cursor lists Bugbot under its paid plans, so check whether your team needs a Cursor plan too; the table leaves that out.

Hidden costs: seats, caps and credits

• Each vendor counts a seat differently. CodeRabbit bills developers who create PRs, Greptile bills anyone who got a review that billing period, Copilot bills granted seats (plus unlicensed PR authors as AI credits if you enable it), and Graphite bills per user without defining one on the page.
• Overages differ too. CodeRabbit switches to $0.25 per reviewed file after the hourly allowance, under a cap you set. Greptile charges $1 a credit, and deeper reviews burn 3 or 10. Copilot charges a cent a credit once the allowance is gone, or pauses until next cycle if admins block paid usage. Bugbot bills every run.
• On private repositories, Copilot’s agentic review also uses GitHub Actions minutes, and larger hosted runners cost more per minute.
• CodeRabbit and Graphite both advertise 20% off for annual billing, and Graphite only shows the annual price.
• Some features sit one tier up: CodeRabbit keeps unit tests and Triage on Team, and Graphite keeps unlimited AI reviews on Team.

Free tiers for open source and individuals

For open source, CodeRabbit reviews public repos for free, Greptile is free for qualified non-commercial OSI-licensed projects, and Graphite’s Hobby plan covers personal-account repos with limited AI reviews. For a solo developer on private code, Greptile Starter (one developer, 50 credits) is the only free reviewer plan here, and Copilot Pro at $10 a month is the cheapest paid one. Copilot Free and Cursor Free and Plus include no AI review at all.

What reading the bot costs

None of these pages has a line for reviewer time, and from experience it is the biggest number. Back-of-envelope, with my assumptions in the open: 10 developers, 20 PRs each a month, a bot leaving 4 comments per PR, and a minute for a human to read each one, decide if it is real, then fix, reply or dismiss. That is 800 minutes, about 13 hours a month. At a loaded $100 an hour, that is roughly $1,300, more than any seat bill in the table above. Halve the comment count and the minutes and it is still about $325, the price of a subscription.

A comment that catches a real bug pays for a lot of minutes. I just want the comments that catch nothing counted too. You still have to read the code anyways, and the output is still on you, so a bot that adds text adds to the bill whether or not it is on the invoice. More on this in review alert fatigue and AI code review accuracy.

Where Pyor fits, and where it does not

Pyor (ours) is not an AI reviewer and does not post comments on your PRs. It is a review surface for GitHub pull requests, on the web and as a desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux. Its AI groups and labels the diff to separate the noise from the important stuff, and drops short hints on the lines worth a look. The idea is to reduce what you review instead of adding to it.

Pricing, from our pricing page: free for individuals (the AI runs on your own API key or a linked ChatGPT subscription), and $7.99 per seat a month for organizations, with Pyor AI included under a monthly usage cap and a 30-day trial with no card. It does not replace a bot’s bug hunt, so plenty of teams would run one of the tools above for the first pass and Pyor to read what is left.

How to choose by budget

• If you already pay for Copilot, turn on code review and watch the credit meter before you buy anything else.
• If you want a predictable bill, CodeRabbit’s per-developer price with a spending cap is the easiest to forecast.
• If you open few PRs and want depth, Greptile’s credits favor fewer, deeper reviews, so model your Plus and Apex usage first.
• If you want the whole PR platform, Graphite Team bundles unlimited AI reviews with stacking and a merge queue.
• If your usage is spiky, Bugbot’s per-run billing costs nothing in a quiet month.
• If reading is the bottleneck, a reviewer bot won’t lower that cost. That’s the one Pyor is built for.

Pricing pages change often, so treat every number here as checked October 2026 and click through before you sign anything.