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AI Code Review Cost Calculator
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Methodology — how these numbers are built
01Why GitHub Copilot has no total. Copilot bills on two undisclosed meters: AI Credits (rate depends on input/output tokens and a model that isn't published) and GitHub Actions minutes (private repos only). With no published per-review rate, any total we computed would be a fabricated number, not a modeled one — so we show only the seat floor plus each live meter, and exclude it from ranking rather than let its floor stand in for its bill.
02Cost only, not value. $15–25 buys 20 minutes of multi-agent analysis with a verification pass. Whether that finds proportionally more real bugs than a $1.25 run is a value question this calculator does not answer.
03Seat allocation. Copilot, Codex, and Gemini seats buy a full coding assistant, not just a reviewer — a team that already owns one sees review as near-free at the margin. Use the "count assistant seat in cost" toggle to see both views.
04Preview pricing is unstable. Gemini's $0 marginal cost is a launch posture, not a permanent model — its individual free tier already ended 18 Jun 2026.
05Bugbot's rollout is staged. Usage pricing applies at each customer's first renewal after 8 Jun 2026 — annual subscribers may still sit on $40 seats into 2027.
06Verified 19 Aug 2026. Three of five vendors changed billing model between April and June 2026 — treat every figure here as perishable, which is why every rate is editable.
Sources — every figure, linked
Anthropic — Claude Code Review
- code.claude.com/docs/en/code-review — "$15–25 in cost"; billed via usage credits; Team/Enterprise; spend caps
- claude.com/blog/code-review — launched 9 Mar 2026; 20-min average review
- claude.com/pricing — Team $20/seat annual, $25 monthly
GitHub — Copilot code review
- blog.codacy.com — the "pay twice" mechanism — two-meter billing; per-review cost unknowable, model undisclosed
- github.blog changelog, 27 Apr 2026
- github.blog — moving to usage-based billing
- docs.github.com — usage-based billing — 1 credit = $0.01; Business 1,900 / Enterprise 3,900; promo through 1 Sep 2026
- docs.github.com — legacy request billing — source of the 13× figure, legacy subscribers only, not used here
- github.com/features/copilot/plans
OpenAI — Codex
- developers.openai.com/codex/pricing — credit rate card; review usage applies only via GitHub
- help.openai.com — What is ChatGPT Business? — shared workspace, admin console, no training on workspace data by default
Google — Gemini Code Assist
- docs.cloud.google.com — Code Assist on GitHub — no charges during Preview
- docs.cloud.google.com — quotas — ≥100 PR reviews/day per installation
- cloud.google.com/blog — Enterprise tier — $45/user/mo list
- docs.cloud.google.com — Standard vs Enterprise overview — Standard/Enterprise feature breakdown; private-repo customization is Enterprise-only
Cursor — Bugbot
- cursor.com/blog — May 2026 Bugbot changes — $40 seat retired; "$1.00–$1.50" average run; effective at first renewal after 8 Jun 2026
- cursor.com/pricing — Team/Business plan features, for context on what a Cursor seat (not Bugbot itself) would include
Supporting
- GitHub Actions Linux 2-core: $0.006/min from 1 Jan 2026, 2,000 free private-repo min/mo — secondary-sourced, confirm before external publish
- Codacy Team: $18/dev/mo annual — internal figure, not independently verified
- Codacy Team/Business feature lists — from Codacy's published pricing page, current as of Aug 2026