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CodeRabbit vs Greptile

CodeRabbit and Greptile are two of the most popular AI code review tools, which read a team's code changes and leave comments on them before they're merged. To see which tool is better and for which kinds of teams, our editors read everything both companies publish about their products on their own sites. They also read public reviews and buyer discussions, and looked through private community boards, chat forums and other places where developers talk about the tools they use. Below is what we found, starting with a side-by-side look at price, limits and features.

CodeRabbit vs Greptile at a Glance, October 2026

CodeRabbit vs Greptile at a Glance, October 2026
What buyers compare	CodeRabbit	Greptile
Price per monthSources 3, 6	Essentials $30 per developer, Team $60. Billed annually: $24 and $48. Advanced: $72 per developer, billed annually. Enterprise: quote	Starter free for 1 developer. Pro $30 per seat. Annual and multi-year: custom quote. Enterprise: quote
Cost: 1 developer, private repos, light useSources 3, 6	$30 (Essentials). Free reviews cover public repos only	$0 (Starter, 50 credits) Free for one developer
Cost: 10 developers, 50 standard reviews eachSources 3, 6	$300 (Essentials), or $240 billed annually	$300 (Pro, 500 credits included)
Cost: 10 developers, 100 standard reviews eachSources 3, 5, 6	$300 (Essentials). No cap on total reviews Cheaper at volume	$800 (Pro $300 plus 500 extra credits at $1)
Usage limitsSources 3, 5, 6	No cap on total PRs or repos. Reviews per developer per hour: 5 Essentials, 8 Team, 10 Advanced, 12 Enterprise. Past that, $0.25 per reviewed file, with a monthly cap you set	50 credits per seat per month, then $1 per credit. A Base review uses 1 credit, Plus 3, Apex 10. Unlimited repositories
CoverageSources 3, 4, 7	GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. Reviews in the PR, IDE, CLI and coding-agent loops. Jira and Linear on every plan	GitHub (incl. Enterprise Server), GitLab (incl. Self-Managed), Bitbucket (incl. Data Center), Gitea, and Perforce on self-hosted installs. Any language
SeatsSources 3, 6	Billed only for developers who open PRs. Seats can be reassigned at any time	A seat is any developer who got a Greptile review in the billing period. Pro allows unlimited users
API and integrationsSources 3, 6, 8	API access with review and MCP usage metrics on Enterprise only. MCP connections: 5, 10, 15 or 20 by plan	MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex, plus unlimited external apps on Pro. REST API terms not on the pricing page
ReportingSources 3, 8	Review usage analytics and scheduled, customizable activity reports on every plan	Analytics dashboard: PRs reviewed, merge times, addressed rates, critical bugs caught, up and down votes
Extra features by planSources 3, 6	Team adds unit-test generation, merge-conflict fixes and a prioritized PR queue. Advanced adds continuous security monitoring Tests and security in plan	Custom rules on Pro. Plus and Apex reviews spend more credits for deeper passes
Self-hostingSources 3, 6, 7	Enterprise: custom deployment, including self-hosting	Enterprise: self-host in your own infrastructure (Docker Compose or Kubernetes)
Free trialSources 5, 6	14 days of Advanced. Free for public repos	14 days of Pro. Free for qualified non-commercial OSS. 50% off for pre-Series A startups under $2M revenue
Discounts for annual billingSources 3, 6	20% (Essentials $24, Team $48)	Not published
Best forSources 1, 2	Teams with heavy PR volume that want a flat price per developer, Azure DevOps support, and tests or security in the plan	Teams that want codebase-wide context on every PR, solo developers on private repos, and shops on Gitea or Perforce

Price per month

CodeRabbit: Essentials $30 per developer, Team $60. Billed annually: $24 and $48. Advanced: $72 per developer, billed annually. Enterprise: quote
Greptile: Starter free for 1 developer. Pro $30 per seat. Annual and multi-year: custom quote. Enterprise: quote

Sources 3, 6

Cost: 1 developer, private repos, light use

CodeRabbit: $30 (Essentials). Free reviews cover public repos only
Greptile: $0 (Starter, 50 credits) Free for one developer

Sources 3, 6

Cost: 10 developers, 50 standard reviews each

CodeRabbit: $300 (Essentials), or $240 billed annually
Greptile: $300 (Pro, 500 credits included)

Sources 3, 6

Cost: 10 developers, 100 standard reviews each

CodeRabbit: $300 (Essentials). No cap on total reviews Cheaper at volume
Greptile: $800 (Pro $300 plus 500 extra credits at $1)

Sources 3, 5, 6

Usage limits

CodeRabbit: No cap on total PRs or repos. Reviews per developer per hour: 5 Essentials, 8 Team, 10 Advanced, 12 Enterprise. Past that, $0.25 per reviewed file, with a monthly cap you set
Greptile: 50 credits per seat per month, then $1 per credit. A Base review uses 1 credit, Plus 3, Apex 10. Unlimited repositories

Sources 3, 5, 6

Coverage

CodeRabbit: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. Reviews in the PR, IDE, CLI and coding-agent loops. Jira and Linear on every plan
Greptile: GitHub (incl. Enterprise Server), GitLab (incl. Self-Managed), Bitbucket (incl. Data Center), Gitea, and Perforce on self-hosted installs. Any language

Sources 3, 4, 7

Seats

CodeRabbit: Billed only for developers who open PRs. Seats can be reassigned at any time
Greptile: A seat is any developer who got a Greptile review in the billing period. Pro allows unlimited users

Sources 3, 6

API and integrations

CodeRabbit: API access with review and MCP usage metrics on Enterprise only. MCP connections: 5, 10, 15 or 20 by plan
Greptile: MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code and Codex, plus unlimited external apps on Pro. REST API terms not on the pricing page

Sources 3, 6, 8

Reporting

CodeRabbit: Review usage analytics and scheduled, customizable activity reports on every plan
Greptile: Analytics dashboard: PRs reviewed, merge times, addressed rates, critical bugs caught, up and down votes

Sources 3, 8

Extra features by plan

CodeRabbit: Team adds unit-test generation, merge-conflict fixes and a prioritized PR queue. Advanced adds continuous security monitoring Tests and security in plan
Greptile: Custom rules on Pro. Plus and Apex reviews spend more credits for deeper passes

Sources 3, 6

Self-hosting

CodeRabbit: Enterprise: custom deployment, including self-hosting
Greptile: Enterprise: self-host in your own infrastructure (Docker Compose or Kubernetes)

Sources 3, 6, 7

Free trial

CodeRabbit: 14 days of Advanced. Free for public repos
Greptile: 14 days of Pro. Free for qualified non-commercial OSS. 50% off for pre-Series A startups under $2M revenue

Sources 5, 6

Discounts for annual billing

CodeRabbit: 20% (Essentials $24, Team $48)
Greptile: Not published

Sources 3, 6

Best for

CodeRabbit: Teams with heavy PR volume that want a flat price per developer, Azure DevOps support, and tests or security in the plan
Greptile: Teams that want codebase-wide context on every PR, solo developers on private repos, and shops on Gitea or Perforce

Sources 1, 2

List prices in US dollars per month before tax, billed monthly unless the row says otherwise, checked October 16, 2026. Workload costs use the cheapest published plan that covers the job, with standard reviews (a CodeRabbit PR review, a Greptile Base review) kept inside CodeRabbit's hourly allowance. A green check marks a row where the published data shows a clear edge.

Which one fits

At normal volume on a small team the two cost the same, so the choice comes down to how much your team reviews and where your code lives.

Choose CodeRabbit if

Your developers open a lot of pull requests. There is no cap on total reviews, only an hourly allowance per developer, so ten developers running 100 reviews each still pay $300 a month on Essentials, against $800 on Greptile Pro.
Your code lives in Azure DevOps, or you want reviews in the IDE and CLI before a pull request opens.
You want unit-test generation, merge-conflict fixes and a prioritized PR queue in the plan. They come with Team at $60 per developer, or $48 billed annually.
You will pay annually. Essentials drops to $24 per developer, while Greptile quotes annual terms case by case.

Choose Greptile if

You want comments that draw on the whole codebase, not only the diff. Greptile builds a graph of the full repository, and cross-file context is its highest-scoring criterion in the AIR review at 8.0.
You are one developer on private repos. Starter is free for one active developer with 50 credits a month, while CodeRabbit's free reviews cover public repos only.
You host code on Gitea, Bitbucket Data Center, GitLab Self-Managed or Perforce.
You are an early-stage startup. Pre-Series A companies with under $2M in revenue over the past 12 months get 50% off.

What buyers say

“CodeRabbit worked really well for us. It caught bugs and implementation gotchas, and its learnings meant it didn't keep nailing intentional patterns. Greptile was pretty much pure noise on the three PRs we tried (wrong style advice, fake 'python 3.14 doesn't exist' logic errors, vague architecture nits), so we gave up.”

sebra · HN · Jan 27, 2026 · source

“Besides having Codex and Claude review each other, we've been running multi-model AI reviews on every PR through Greptile, CodeRabbit, Codex, Gemini, and Copilot. They never fully overlap, and they somehow usually all miss the same things.”

ElFitz · HN · Jun 12, 2026 · source

“CodeRabbit suits our team because ten developers open a lot of pull requests and there is no cap on total reviews. Greptile's comments draw on the whole codebase, which is a real plus, but the per-developer price was higher for us.”

Engineering manager, 60-person fintech
Representative buyer view

Verdict

CodeRabbit leads at 7.9 Recommend; Greptile sits at 7.7 Recommend. Pick CodeRabbit if you are an engineering team that wants an AI reviewer on every pull request without replacing human review ownership. Pick Greptile if you are an engineering team that wants codebase-aware PR review and optional autonomous PR testing without replacing human ownership. Both are Recommend, so job fit decides, not the Overall gap alone.

Methodology

We read the CodeRabbit and Greptile pricing pages and product docs on October 16, 2026 and recorded every published price, limit and plan feature. Scores, best-fit notes and buyer quotes come from the AIR reviews of each product, which weight practitioner reviews at 40%, hands-on product checks at 35%, pricing at 15% and docs at 10%. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites are excluded. Quotes marked Representative buyer view are written by AIR to reflect buyer feedback and carry no source link.

Workload costs assume monthly billing and the cheapest plan that covers the job. A standard review is one CodeRabbit PR review or one Greptile Base review (1 credit). The 100-review workload stays within CodeRabbit's Essentials allowance of 5 reviews per developer per hour; a team that bursts past it pays $0.25 per reviewed file. Greptile's Plus (3 credits) and Apex (10 credits) reviews would raise its totals, and CodeRabbit publishes no matching tier, so we did not price them.

CodeRabbit renamed its plans this year: Essentials was Pro and Team was Pro Plus, at the same prices. Neither company paid for coverage, and AIR takes no affiliate fees.

Sources

How AIR scores vendors.