CodeRabbit

CodeRabbit is an AI code review tool that comments on pull requests, flags bugs and security issues, and triages review work for development teams. It runs as a bot on GitHub and GitLab to check changes before merge.

#14 in Coding & Development ToolsAI Coding AssistantsNo free plan

Who it's for

Best for

  • Engineering teams reviewing a high volume of AI-generated pull requests
  • Teams that enforce custom codebase conventions across pull requests

Not for

  • Teams with heavy merge days that need predictable hourly review capacity
  • Linux and WSL developers who need a CLI install without desktop packages

Pricing

Free planNo
Essentials$24/seat/moBilled annually
Team$48/seat/moBilled annually
Advanced$72/seat/moBilled annually

Features

  • Automatic pull request review

    A bot comments on each pull request with severity labels, findings and committable suggestions posted directly in the diff.

  • Prioritized review queue

    Reviews are ordered against daily capacity into P0, P1 and P2 tiers, with bot-authored comment tasks skipped so attention goes to the changes that matter most.

  • Security and dependency scanning

    Deep Scan and dependency checks flag vulnerabilities such as known package advisories on pull requests and report codebase health with a severity breakdown.

  • GitHub and GitLab integration

    The app installs on GitHub and GitLab repositories, where it comments on pull requests and takes part in the review conversation on each change.

  • Governance for agentic development

    The platform is framed around governance and control for agentic development, combining automatic triage, explanation of changes and enterprise controls.

What users say

Pros

  • Catches real logical bugs and subtle concurrency problems that a quick manual pass misses.
  • Keeps a set of learned project conventions and uses them so it stops flagging patterns the codebase intentionally uses.
  • Gates auto-merge on low-risk pull requests, with a scheduled weekly pass over the decisions it made.
  • Groups related files together in the pull request review view, which keeps large AI-generated changes manageable.

Cons

  • Large pull requests collect walls of comments where the few real bugs sit among nitpicks and false positives.
  • Review allowances throttle to one or two an hour on busy days, with no meter showing remaining capacity.
  • Addressing every finding leads to a second pass with a fresh batch of issues, reopening the loop.
  • Subscriptions renew after a confirmed cancellation, and refund requests go unanswered for weeks.
  • The CLI needs a long list of desktop packages to authenticate on headless Linux and WSL machines.

Summarized from public user reviews and community discussions. View details

Global Traffic Rank

Top 500k

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