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CodeRabbit vs. Refact.ai

At a glance

At a glance

CodeRabbit

Best for

Best for engineering teams that want every pull request reviewed and ranked before a human opens it.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

Refact.ai

Best for

Best for developers who want an agent, chat and autocomplete in one open-source tool, with a self-hosted option for privacy.

  • Freelancers
  • Small and mid-sized
  • Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion CodeRabbit Refact.ai
Starting price Free for open-source repos; Pro $24 / user / month Pro and Pro Plus are quoted billed annually: $24 and $48 per user per month. CodeRabbit Security is $40 per user per month. Enterprise is quoted by sales, and its self-hosted option starts at 500 seats. lower value Free tier; Pro $10 / month The free plan includes unlimited completions and limited daily agent use. Enterprise is custom, with on-premise deployment and fine-tuning.
Free trial 14 days, no credit card; public and open-source repositories are reviewed free permanently Free tier
Commercial use Yes Yes
Output AI reviews on pull requests, with one-click fixes and pre-merge checks Agentic coding, chat and completion in the IDE
API Yes, on the Enterprise plan Bring your own key
Hosting Cloud, with a self-hosted Enterprise deployment from 500 seats and an EU SaaS region Cloud or self-hosted on-premise
Where it runs On the pull request in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, plus a VS Code extension and a CLI Plugins for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, with Visual Studio, Neovim and Sublime Text in beta
Inline completions No, it reviews and comments on changes rather than completing code as you type Yes, real-time completion on Qwen2.5-Coder with retrieval for context
Agent mode Yes, agentic reviews with one-click fixes, agentic chat, coding agent loops and an issue planner; unit tests, merge-conflict resolution and post-merge actions come with Pro Plus Yes, an autonomous agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks
Model choice No model picker; an ensemble of models is used, with code shared with OpenAI and Anthropic for reviewing purposes Claude and GPT models built in, plus bring-your-own-key for Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek
Data control Customer code is never used for training. Encrypted code caches, vector indexes and longer-lived Learnings are stored; self-hosted Enterprise can opt out entirely, and model output logging is off by default for eligible non-open-source organisations Self-hosted, on-premise deployment keeps code private
Ecosystem fit GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps including self-managed servers, plus Jira and Linear, MCP connections and a VS Code extension IDE plugins across VS Code and JetBrains, open source with a self-hosted server
Deployment more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise Cloud (SaaS), On-premise
Onboarding Documentation and knowledge base Documentation and knowledge base
Company size Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
Integrations GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jira, Linear, Slack, VS Code Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

  • Starting price CodeRabbit Free for open-source repos; Pro $24 / user / month Refact.ai Free tier; Pro $10 / month
  • Free trial CodeRabbit 14 days, no credit card; public and open-source repositories are reviewed free permanently Refact.ai Free tier
  • Deployment CodeRabbit Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise Refact.ai Cloud (SaaS), On-premise
  • Hosting CodeRabbit Cloud, with a self-hosted Enterprise deployment from 500 seats and an EU SaaS region Refact.ai Cloud or self-hosted on-premise
  • Output CodeRabbit AI reviews on pull requests, with one-click fixes and pre-merge checks Refact.ai Agentic coding, chat and completion in the IDE

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

CodeRabbit

Strengths

  • Reviews every pull request automatically and proposes one-click fixes
  • Covers GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, including self-managed servers
  • Free reviews for public and open-source repositories
  • Customer code is not used for training, and Enterprise can self-host

Limitations

  • Reviews code rather than writing it, so it sits alongside a coding assistant rather than replacing one
  • Hourly review caps per developer: 5 pull requests on Pro, 10 on Pro Plus
  • Self-hosting is Enterprise only and starts at 500 seats
  • Security monitoring is a separate $40 per user per month tier

Refact.ai

Strengths

  • Open source with a self-hosted, on-premise option
  • Agent, chat and completion in one plugin
  • Broad model choice through bring-your-own-key

Limitations

  • Free plan caps daily agent runs
  • Some IDE plugins are still in beta

Plans

Pricing

CodeRabbit

  • Open source $0 Free reviews for public and open-source repositories.
  • Pro $24 Per user per month, billed annually. Includes agentic reviews, one-click fixes, 5 MCP connections and Jira and Linear integrations; 5 pull request reviews per developer per hour.
  • Pro Plus $48 Per user per month, billed annually. Adds multi-repo analysis across 10 repos, 20 custom pre-merge checks, unit tests and merge-conflict resolution, post-merge actions, an issue planner and 15 MCP connections; 10 reviews per developer per hour.
  • CodeRabbit Security $40 Per user per month, for continuous security monitoring, security pull request reviews and usage-based full repository scans.
  • Enterprise Not stated Contact sales. Adds custom RBAC, SSO, audit logging, API access, self-hosting, multi-org support, an SLA, a dedicated CSM, EU SaaS deployment and 20 MCP connections.
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Refact.ai

  • Free $0 Unlimited completions, limited daily agent use, 32k context chat.
  • Pro $10 Per month. 40 agent requests per day, 64k context chat.
  • Enterprise Not stated Custom. On-premise deployment and fine-tuning.
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What users say

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CodeRabbit

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Refact.ai

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Where this comes from

Where this comes from

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