AI Code Review Pricing Compared (2026): What 7 Tools Cost a Year for 5 to 200 Developers

AI code review costs about $120 to $576 per developer a year on most tools at 10 pull requests per developer a month, and $1,800 or more with Claude Code Review. repowise is the lowest-cost option here: its AI review costs about 9 cents a pull request on average with no per-seat or per-repo fee, so a 20-developer team pays about $408 a year including the Pro plan its private repositories need, against $2,400 to $5,760 for Greptile Base, Cursor Bugbot, Qodo, GitHub Copilot Business seats or CodeRabbit Essentials.

Every price below was checked on the vendor's own page on 29 October 2026. Each vendor has its own pricing breakdown, linked in its section, and the AI code review cost calculator runs the same numbers for your team size.

What does AI code review cost per year?

At 10 pull requests per developer a month and one review per PR, list prices in US dollars:

The repowise row is AI review on every pull request plus Pro at $192 a year, its yearly price for new subscribers from November 2026, which covers 5 private repositories. A 200-developer organization usually has more repositories than that, so its row shows the review cost and leaves the plan to its repository count.

The assumptions

• We assume 10 PRs per developer per month. Your own number is one query away: count merged PRs last month and divide by the people who opened them.
• Every developer opens PRs. CodeRabbit charges only developers who create pull requests, so this matches its billing.
• Each PR gets one review, for the tools that charge per review. A second review after a push costs again on most of them, so check your trigger settings.
• Prices are list prices as of 29 October 2026, before discounts, taxes and startup programs. Copilot seats also buy completions, chat and agents; the other rows buy review.

Is repowise really 10 times cheaper?

Per review, yes, against every tool that prices the review. A repowise AI review averages about 9 cents, against $1 for a Greptile Base review, $1.00 to $1.50 for a Bugbot run, about $1.50 for a Copilot review at its default level, about $1.67 for a Qodo review and $15 to $25 for Claude Code Review. That is roughly 11x, 11x to 17x, 17x, 19x and more than 160x.

Per year, the multiple depends on team size, because the Pro plan is a fixed cost that matters most to a small team:

So the 10x claim holds per review across the board, and per year from about 20 developers against seat plans and Qodo. Against Greptile Base and Bugbot, the two cheapest per-review options, repowise is about 8x cheaper at 50 developers and passes 10x at 200. For a 5-developer team, it is 2.4 to 7 times cheaper than everything except CodeRabbit Team and Claude Code Review.

Seat pricing vs usage pricing

The plans scale in different directions, and that matters more than any single price.

Seat pricing (CodeRabbit, Copilot) is a fixed monthly cost per person, so the more PRs each person opens, the cheaper each review gets. At 20 PRs per developer instead of 10, CodeRabbit Essentials drops from $2.40 to $1.20 a review. Seat pricing is predictable, and finance can plan it around headcount.

Usage pricing (repowise, Greptile, Qodo, Bugbot, Claude Code Review) charges per review. The cost per review stays flat however busy you are, and a quiet month costs less. It is the better deal for small or uneven teams, and it needs a cap so a busy month does not surprise anyone. Every usage-priced tool here offers one.

repowise PR bot pricing

repowise prices the review a pull request gets, with no per-seat or per-repo fee, and it comes out cheapest under the same rules as every other row.

The bot has two modes. Signals is deterministic and free on every repository, open source included: it reads the repository's index and posts the callers a change breaks, the files that usually change with it but are not in the PR, and the tests to run first, with no model call, so the same diff always gets the same comment. AI review is paid from your credit balance and costs about 9 cents a pull request on average, so 100 PRs come to about $9. It runs a quick pass on every code change, checks risky claims before they post and goes deep once on a risky pull request, and every push also gets a review check on GitHub.

Each PR has a default cap of 60 cents, and the account has a monthly cap. Private repositories need a paid plan, listed on the pricing page. Details are on the PR bot page and pricing page.

CodeRabbit pricing

CodeRabbit Essentials is $24 per developer a month on annual billing or $30 monthly, and Team is $48 annual or $60 monthly. Advanced is $72 a developer a month and adds security and architecture depth, and Enterprise is custom. Only developers who open pull requests are charged, and public repositories are reviewed free.

There is no cap on PRs or repositories. Each plan has an hourly review allowance per developer (5 an hour on Essentials, up to 12 on Enterprise), and reviews past it can continue as usage at $0.25 per reviewed file, with a monthly cap you set. CodeRabbit is the predictable choice, because the bill follows headcount. Full breakdown: CodeRabbit pricing.

Greptile pricing

Greptile Pro is $1 a credit with no seat fees: credits are prepaid and shared across the organization, and the plan covers unlimited developers and agents. A Base review is 1 credit, Plus 3 and Apex 10. Starter is free for one active developer with 50 credits a month, qualified non-commercial open-source projects are free, and pre-Series A startups get 500 free credits a month for six months.

Until mid-October 2026 Pro was $30 a seat with 50 credits per seat, so older comparisons quote that. Review depth now moves a Greptile bill more than headcount does. Full breakdown: Greptile pricing.

Qodo pricing

Qodo Pro Team is a pooled credit plan at $0.012 a credit, with packs you can switch monthly: 2,500 credits for $30, which Qodo estimates at about 18 reviews, then 5,000 (about 36) and 20,000 (about 144). That works out to about $1.67 a review. Overage is billed at the same rate up to a cap you set, and credits expire at the end of each monthly cycle.

Pro Team is designed for up to 30 users, so larger teams are on Enterprise with custom pricing. There is no permanent free tier after the 14-day trial, and qualified open-source projects can apply for free access. Full breakdown: Qodo pricing.

GitHub Copilot code review pricing

Copilot code review is included in the paid plans: Pro ($10 a month), Pro+ ($39), Max ($100), Business ($19 a seat, 1,900 AI credits a user) and Enterprise ($39 a seat, 3,900 credits a user), per GitHub's plans page. Copilot Free does not include it.

GitHub's code review docs now estimate an average review at $0.25 of AI credits on Lite, $1.50 on Balanced, the default, and $10 on Max. Reviews also use GitHub Actions minutes since 1 June 2026. If your team already pays for Copilot Business, review mostly fits inside the included credits, which makes it the easiest one to try. Full breakdown: GitHub Copilot code review cost.

Cursor Bugbot pricing

Cursor Bugbot is usage-based since May 2026, with no seat fee: Cursor says the average review costs $1.00 to $1.50, depending on PR size and complexity. It is included from Cursor's Premium plan ($30 a month) up, and Cursor Teams starts at $30 a user a month. Bugbot is the natural pick for teams that already work in Cursor, where findings can go straight to its agents. Full breakdown: Cursor Bugbot pricing and alternatives.

Claude Code Review pricing

Claude Code Review is Anthropic's managed multi-agent reviewer for Claude Team and Enterprise plans. Anthropic's launch post says reviews "generally average $15-25, scaling with PR size and complexity," billed on token usage separately from the plan, and its docs note that a repository added from the admin page reviews after every push by default. It is the deepest and most expensive option here, and teams usually point it at the few PRs that can hurt production. Full breakdown: Claude Code Review pricing.

Which is cheapest for your team size?

For 5 developers, repowise AI review on every PR costs about $246 a year with its Pro plan. The next cheapest are Greptile Base and Cursor Bugbot at $600 or more, and a single developer can use Greptile's free Starter plan.

For 20 developers, repowise is about $408 a year against $2,400 to $5,760 for Greptile Base, Bugbot, Qodo, Copilot seats and CodeRabbit Essentials. Among those, Greptile Base and Bugbot are cheapest at this PR rate, and CodeRabbit gets cheaper per review the more each developer ships.

For 50 developers and up, Qodo moves to Enterprise, CodeRabbit and Copilot seats run $11,400 to $14,400 a year, and repowise review still costs about 9 cents a PR, with the plan around it following your repository count.

Price is the smaller half of the decision. A cheap reviewer that posts noise on every PR costs more in ignored comments than it saves. For what each kind of reviewer catches, see deterministic vs LLM code review, and for a wider list of bots, the PR review bots for GitHub roundup.

How we measured

On 6 and 12 October 2026 we read each vendor's pricing page and billing docs, and on 29 October 2026 we read them all again: CodeRabbit, Greptile, Qodo, GitHub's Copilot plans and code review docs, Cursor's Bugbot page and pricing, and Anthropic's Code Review cost docs and launch post. The tables are our arithmetic on those list prices with the assumptions above. repowise figures come from its pricing page and PR bot page. We did not run the tools on the same PRs, so these figures compare cost, not review quality.