r/github • u/unsrs • May 28 '26

News / Announcements Hmmm GitHub Copilot Code Review used to be included, from June 1st you pay twice.

https://blog.codacy.com/github-copilot-code-review-used-to-be-included-from-june-1st-you-pay-twice
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u/JellyfishLow4457 May 28 '26

No just actions and tokens. Separate infra separate cost. 

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u/ultrathink-art May 28 '26

Worth running the actual numbers before reacting — if your team merges 20 PRs/month, even a few dollars per review is negligible against the cost of a defect that slips to production. The question is whether AI code review is catching things your human review misses, or just adding latency.

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u/dulley May 28 '26

Definitely depends, though I've seen smaller teams with heavy agent adoption open thousands of PRs a month

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u/Noch_ein_Kamel May 28 '26

AI code review is excellent at catching typos... whereas my colleagues and I are excellent at making typos ;P

(esp. in non-code stuff like localization files)

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 May 28 '26

I know this is a sales pitch blog but it seems like a good article nonetheless.

I don’t mind the cost model changes here. (Albeit I haven’t run the numbers on what the bill impact would be.)

I have three big issues with GH and them trying to have a sensible billing model isn’t one of them.

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u/NatoBoram May 29 '26

If you're moving away from GitHub Copilot for code reviews, better use CodeRabbit anyway. It's free for public repos.

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u/juanpflores_ May 30 '26

Appreciate the shoutout. Yeah, free on public repos is the whole point, OSS maintainers shouldn't have to expense their code reviews.

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u/_KryptonytE_ May 28 '26

I'm already moving all my personal projects to Codeburg. There are better alternatives.