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AI Code Review Pricing Compared (2026 Vendor Prices)

Codacy, CodeRabbit, Greptile, Korbit, Qodo, SonarQube, and CodeAnt pricing compared side by side, with list prices checked 2026-07-07.

TopAlternativesTo Team · October 20, 2026 · 7 min read

What you're actually comparing when you compare AI code review pricing

Every vendor in this category quotes a number per seat per month, but that number hides different assumptions about what a "seat" is, what counts as a repo, and whether the price includes the LLM calls that actually do the reviewing. Before you put these tools side by side, it helps to know that the headline price is a floor, not a ceiling. The core fact buyers need: list prices in this category currently range from 12 USD per seat per month at the low end to 34 USD per month at the high end, and every vendor treats "enterprise" as a separate, negotiated conversation.

If you're evaluating tools for the first time, start from the /categories/ai-code-review listing to see the full field, and cross-reference against /categories/ai-coding-assistants if you're also weighing tools that write code, not just review it. Pricing comparisons only mean something once you know which features sit behind the paywall at each tier, and that varies more than the raw numbers suggest.

Seat by seat: the list prices, checked 2026-07-07

Here's the full set of entry-level prices as published on each vendor's own pricing page, all checked on 2026-07-07:

  • Korbit (/tools/korbit): from 12 USD per seat/month
  • Codacy (/tools/codacy): from 18 USD per seat/month, has a free tier
  • CodeAnt (/tools/codeant): from 24 USD per seat/month
  • CodeRabbit (/tools/coderabbit): from 24 USD per seat/month, has a free tier
  • Greptile (/tools/greptile): from 30 USD per seat/month, has a free tier
  • Qodo (/tools/qodo): from 30 USD per seat/month
  • SonarQube (/tools/sonarqube): from 34 USD per month, has a free tier

At face value, Korbit is the cheapest entry point at 12 USD per seat per month and SonarQube is the most expensive at 34 USD per month, but SonarQube's price isn't strictly per seat, which changes the math for larger teams. Notice the cluster at 24 and 30 USD: CodeAnt and CodeRabbit sit together, and Greptile and Qodo sit together. That clustering tells you something about where the market has settled for mid-tier, team-oriented AI review, with Korbit undercutting the pack and SonarQube pricing differently because it's selling a broader code quality platform, not just AI review.

Free tiers: how far they get you before you pay

Four of the seven vendors here, Codacy, CodeRabbit, Greptile, and SonarQube, list a free tier as of the 2026-07-07 check. None of the pricing pages promise unlimited scale on the free plan, and in practice free tiers in this category tend to gate on one or more of:

  • Number of private repositories you can connect
  • Number of seats or contributors
  • Whether the free tier covers public repos only or also private ones
  • Review depth or request volume per month

If you're a solo developer or a very small team shipping mostly open source, a free tier might be the entire budget line for AI code review. If you're a funded startup with a private monorepo and more than a couple of contributors, expect to hit a wall inside a sprint or two and land on the paid seat price anyway. The honest takeaway on free tiers: they're real and usable for evaluation or for small open-source projects, but they are not a long-term substitute for a paid seat once you have a private codebase and more than a couple of active contributors. For a broader view of which SaaS free plans actually hold up under real usage rather than just marketing copy, see /blog/saas-free-plans-that-are-enough.

What the per-seat price doesn't tell you

The number on the pricing page is the start of the conversation, not the end of it. A few things the list price rarely captures:

Seat definition. Some vendors count a seat as any developer who opens a pull request in a connected repo, whether or not they ever read a review comment. Others count only developers actively assigned review duties. This changes your real cost per month more than the headline number does, especially on teams where junior engineers churn through PRs faster than senior reviewers.

Repo and org scope. A price "from" a given figure usually applies to the smallest supported plan. Connecting multiple repos, multiple orgs, or self-hosted runners often pushes you into a higher tier that isn't listed as a flat number on the page, instead requiring a sales conversation.

Model and review depth. AI code review tools differ in how deep their static analysis and LLM-driven review goes. A cheaper seat that only flags style issues isn't the same product as a pricier seat that catches logic bugs and security issues before merge. Comparing Korbit at 12 USD per seat/month against Qodo or Greptile at 30 USD per seat/month only makes sense once you've trialed both against your actual codebase, not just the pricing page.

Enterprise negotiation. Every vendor above sells an enterprise tier that is explicitly not on the public pricing page. SSO, audit logging, on-prem or VPC deployment, and custom SLAs get negotiated once you're past a certain seat count, and that negotiated price can diverge significantly from the list price you see today. Treat every number in this post as a starting list price checked on 2026-07-07, not a quote you can hold a vendor to without talking to sales.

The practical point: the per-seat number tells you where to start the conversation, but the real cost of an AI code review tool only becomes clear after you've tested it against your repo size, team structure, and the depth of bugs it actually catches. If you're tracking how this category's pricing shifts over time, a running log like /blog/saas-pricing-tracker is a useful habit for any tool you're paying for monthly.

Which tool fits which team size

Matching price to team size avoids the most common mistake buyers make in this category, which is picking the cheapest seat price and then discovering it doesn't scale with how your org actually reviews code.

For a small team or solo builder testing the waters, Codacy's free tier or Korbit's 12 USD per seat/month entry point are the lowest-friction ways to get AI review into your workflow without a procurement conversation. CodeRabbit's free tier plays in the same space if you want a reviewer that comments directly on pull requests without extra tooling.

For a growing engineering team with a handful of repos and a need for consistent review standards across contributors, CodeAnt at 24 USD per seat/month and CodeRabbit at the same price point are built for exactly this stage. Both are priced identically on the list price as of 2026-07-07, so the decision at this tier comes down to integration fit and review quality in your trial, not the sticker price.

For teams that want deeper codebase understanding, cross-file context, or a reviewer that reasons about your architecture rather than just the diff, Greptile and Qodo both sit at 30 USD per seat/month. That's the premium tier in this comparison, and it's priced to match tools that are doing more than line-by-line linting.

For organizations that already run SonarQube for static analysis and code quality gates and want AI review layered on top of an existing quality platform, the 34 USD per month SonarQube price reflects a different product shape entirely, one that bundles code quality scanning with review rather than selling review as a standalone seat.

The matching rule that actually holds up: pick based on what your team already does badly (style nits, missed logic bugs, inconsistent review turnaround) rather than by sorting vendors from cheapest to most expensive. A 12 USD seat that catches the wrong class of bug for your codebase is more expensive in the long run than a 30 USD seat that catches the right ones.

Before you sign anything, pull the current page for the tool you're closest to choosing. Vendors in this category move fast, list prices get revised, and free tier limits get redrawn more often than enterprise software typically does. Bookmark the pricing pages for /tools/greptile, /tools/qodo, and /tools/sonarqube if those are your finalists, and re-check the numbers against the vendor's own page before you budget for the year, since everything above was accurate as of 2026-07-07 but is a list price snapshot, not a guarantee.

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FAQ

What's the cheapest AI code review tool?+

On list price alone, Korbit is cheapest at 12 USD per seat per month (checked 2026-07-07). Codacy follows at 18 USD per seat per month and also offers a free tier. Price per seat isn't the whole story though, since review depth and false-positive rates vary by tool.

Do any AI code review tools have a free plan?+

Yes. Codacy, CodeRabbit, Greptile, and SonarQube all list free tiers as of 2026-07-07. Free tiers typically cap repo count, seat count, or private repo access, so check the vendor's pricing page for current limits before committing a team to one.

Is SonarQube priced the same way as the others?+

No. SonarQube lists pricing from 34 USD per month rather than a strict per-seat rate, which matters if you have a large team, since the effective per-developer cost can come out lower or higher than seat-based competitors depending on headcount.

Does per-seat pricing include enterprise features?+

Generally no. The per-seat figures listed here are entry list prices. SSO, audit logs, on-prem deployment, and volume discounts are usually negotiated separately once you talk to sales, so treat these numbers as a starting point, not a final quote.

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