What AI code review actually costs
In 2026 code review got a meter, right as coding agents multiplied PR volume. Here is the sticker price against the documented bill, every figure sourced.
Sticker price against the real bill.
GitHub Copilot code review
Blocks reviewsSticker
$10 to $100
a month for individuals, plus per-user Business and Enterprise
Documented bill
$180
projected for one month by a user dashboard, per press
Cursor Bugbot
Keeps billingSticker
$1 to $1.50
a run, staff stated. No seat fee, no published rate card
Documented bill
$150 to $200+
a month projected on 20 PRs, from a user's own math
Devin Review (Cognition)
Keeps billingSticker
$80 + $40
Teams base plus each dev. Individual Pro $20, Max $200
Documented bill
None published
their own post: costs should not feel open-ended
Greptile
Skips reviewsSticker
$30
a seat a month, 50 credits included, then $1 a review
Documented bill
$300
a month for a 10-dev team before overage, our math
Qodo
Bills to your capSticker
$30
Pro Team a month (up to 30 users), plus credit packs
Documented bill
$1.67
a review, worked out from their own pack sizing
Macroscope
Auto-refillsSticker
$0.05/KB
of diff reviewed, $0.50 minimum a review
Documented bill
$0.50 to $35
a review in their own examples, small fix to large refactor
Ellipsis
Pauses agentsSticker
2x tokens
usage priced, with a platform fee equal to token cost
Documented bill
$0.74
a review in their own example, half of it the fee
Cubic
Upgrade wallSticker
$30 to $99
a dev a month, with reviewed-lines caps per tier
Documented bill
None published
and no price published for lines beyond the cap
Critique
Halts reviewsSticker
$19
Solo, hard-metered at 750 credits. Pro $49, Team $149
Documented bill
15 to 250
reviews a month on Solo, varies by model and PR size
GitZoid
NeverSticker
$19
flat a month, whole team, up to 50 repos
Documented bill
$19
every month. That is the whole mechanic
Four of these stop reviewing when the meter runs out: Copilot blocks, Greptile skips, Critique halts, Ellipsis pauses. A reviewer that stops reviewing when the meter runs out is not oversight.
Every figure sourced. Spot something out of date? Tell us.
How each meter works.
Open a row for the billing mechanics and the sources behind it. Where the arithmetic is ours, the row says so.
GitHub Copilot code reviewBlocks reviews
How it actually bills
Two meters since June 2026: AI Credits ($0.01 each, shared with chat and agents) plus Actions minutes on private repos. Credits never roll over.
Documented real-world cost
822 credits gone in one request (54% of a monthly quota). Press projected a $180 June bill.
When the budget runs out
Reviews are blocked when the credit budget is hit, per GitHub's docs.
Cursor BugbotKeeps billing
How it actually bills
Per run, and a run fires on every PR update by default. No published rate card. Migration off the old $40 seat is typically one-way.
Documented real-world cost
A single PR can trigger 7 to 10 runs. 20 PRs a month projects to $150 to $200+ on top of Cursor.
When the budget runs out
Open-ended. On Individual plans it drains your coding usage, then bills on-demand.
Devin Review (Cognition)Keeps billing
How it actually bills
A usage allowance, then extra at API pricing. They moved the default trigger from every commit to on PR open to contain cost.
Documented real-world cost
Their own words: they do not want review costs to feel open-ended or hard to reason about.
When the budget runs out
Open-ended. Extra usage billed at API pricing.
GreptileSkips reviews
How it actually bills
50 credits per seat, 1 per review (TREX costs 3), then $1 each. Sold unlimited at $30 until March 2026, then metered.
Documented real-world cost
A 10-dev team is $300/mo before any overage (our math from their rates).
When the budget runs out
Past a flex-usage dollar cap, Greptile skips extra reviews. Included ones still run. No cap means $1 each, open-ended.
QodoBills to your cap
How it actually bills
Credit-metered at $0.012 each, pooled. Bigger PRs cost more. Credits expire monthly, no rollover.
Documented real-world cost
Their own pack sizing works out to about $1.67 a review, well above the $30 sticker.
When the budget runs out
Overage keeps billing to a cap you set. When the trial ends, reviews pause until you pick a plan.
MacroscopeAuto-refills
How it actually bills
Prepaid balance with auto-refill. Every customer was migrated off the old $30 seat by April 2026.
Documented real-world cost
Their own examples: small fix $0.50, medium feature $1.50, large refactor $35.
When the budget runs out
Auto-refill keeps spend going. Default caps: $10 a review, $50 a PR.
EllipsisPauses agents
How it actually bills
Exited flat review. Tokens at cost, plus CPU and memory meters, plus a platform fee equal to 100% of token usage. Effective token cost doubles.
Documented real-world cost
Their own example: a $0.74 review is $0.37 tokens plus a $0.37 fee.
When the budget runs out
Agents pause until the next cycle once the cap is hit.
CubicUpgrade wall
How it actually bills
Seat price plus a reviewed-lines cap: 40k lines per dev on Team, 80k on Pro. Their own report says merged code volume tripled in a year.
Documented real-world cost
Blank. No real-world bills documented, and no price for extra lines is published.
When the budget runs out
Hit the cap and the options are the 2.5x Pro tier or Enterprise. Beyond-cap pricing is not published.
CritiqueHalts reviews
How it actually bills
The $19 is hard-metered: 750 credits, cost varies by model and PR size. Credits reset monthly, no rollover.
Documented real-world cost
A review runs 3 to 50+ credits by model, so Solo is roughly 15 to 250 reviews a month. You cannot know your coverage.
When the budget runs out
A low-balance gate halts automated review before the next run.
The bill shock is not our characterization.
It is what developers wrote in public, on the record.
54% of my monthly quote gone with just one request 822 credits gone in a single request, and the project that I am working on is just a small project with few screens
As of today, I have already consumed 2,939 out of 7,000 included AI credits
I'd call it a straight up 'bait and switch'.
One price did not move.
GitZoid is $19 a month, flat. One plan, whole team, up to 50 repos. No seats, no credits, no packs, no overage, no meters, and it never skips a PR.
Your agents are about to double your PR volume again. On every tool above that doubles your bill or halves your coverage. On GitZoid it changes nothing.
First 10 outputs free. No card required.
Put a patrol on every repo.
Connect a repo and the first review posts on your next pull request. No new tool to learn. GitZoid works inside GitHub.