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
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.
A selection of the review sources we used:
CodeRabbit finds real logical bugs other AI tools miss
Kilometers of useless comments make the bot exhausting to work with
Low-risk pull requests merge on the bot's verdict, reviewed weekly
Ten-review hourly plan throttled after a few pull requests
Cancellation confirmed, then charged again on the renewal date
Summarized from public user reviews and community discussions. View details
Global Traffic Rank
Top 500k
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Better forWriting multi-file code, executing terminal commands, and running tests
Weaker atAutomating pull request reviews and gating merges on GitHub or GitLab