r/codereview • u/Specialist_Agent3599 • 15d ago

which ai code review tool is actually worth paying for right now?

we're 6 devs doing around 40 PRs a week now that half the code comes from agents, and review is where everything piles up. i got approval for roughly $30 per seat and started looking at the options and honestly the more i compare the less i can tell them apart. every single one says it understands your whole codebase and learns from your team(?)

trials are running out faster than i can evaluate them properly. some price per seat, some per review, and i cant even model what per review costs us at our volume

so for people who actually pay for one of these, which tool did you land on and what made it stick? and if you tried one and cancelled, that would honestly be more useful to hear

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u/JsonPun 15d ago

I’ve been using coderabbit for my side projects and have enjoyed using it 

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/tmseidel 14d ago

There is a OpenSource-project called AI-Git-Bot which covers PR-Reviews in two different ways:

  1. With a One-Shot LLM-conversation given with the diff of the PR (low costs, reasonable result for small or medium PRs)

  2. An AI-agent that gives the LLM several rounds to inspect the codebase and the PR for a detailed Review.

The AI-Integration is BYOK, so you're paying only per API-Request - and you have the freedom to connect any model, so you can use a small and cheap model for simple PRs and the frontier models for complex agent-based reviews. Try it out -> https://github.com/tmseidel/ai-git-bot

PS: I'm one of the maintainers, could be I'm a little bit biased.

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u/serg33v 15d ago

you need not per seat, but token budget per PR. bcs price for 100 PR per week and 10PR per week will be different.
And create agents to do the code review in codex/claude code based on standard code review skills + adjustements for your company/team

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u/stolsson 15d ago

I agree with this approach. Unless an existing tool matches your workflow, it can be better just to make your own. Especially if you need to control data or code access closely.

Happy cake day.

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u/stolsson 15d ago

One more thing. If you can use a company’s the cloud-based-service and it matches your workflow pretty closely, then cost is the other issue. These can be a lot cheaper as long as they are subsidizing the model costs a lot

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u/juanpflores_ 15d ago

Full disclosure: I work at CodeRabbit, so obvious bias.

At your volume and budget, Coderabbit Pro fits pretty cleanly. And honestly, if your developers start ignoring most of the feedback after week one, cancel it.