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Choosing the right AI code review tool can make or break your development workflow. With four major players dominating the market—CodeRabbit, Cursor Bugbot, Greptile, and Graphite Agent—how do you know which one fits your team?
We used QBack to analyze Reddit discussions, G2 reviews, comparison articles, official pricing pages, and extensive market research to bring you the real story behind each tool. No marketing fluff—just actual user experiences, pricing breakdowns, and performance data.
Here's what developers are actually saying about these tools in 2025.
Executive Summary: Who Leads the AI Code Review Market?
Based on Reddit discussions in r/codereview, the top four AI code review tools are:
- CodeRabbit - Market leader by adoption and community buzz
- Cursor Bugbot - Rising fast, tied to the Cursor IDE ecosystem
- Graphite Agent - Full platform play, recently launched standalone
- Greptile - Technical depth but facing trust issues
As one Reddit user nyfael states: "It seems like the top four are: Coderabbit, Cursorbot, Graphite diamond, and Greptile."
Now let's dive deep into each tool.
CodeRabbit: The Market Leader
What Makes CodeRabbit the Market Leader?
CodeRabbit has built the strongest market position through adoption, funding, and community support.
Strongest Market Position & Adoption:
- 4.8/5 rating on G2 with 25 reviews
- $88M total funding ($60M Series B in September 2025) at $550M valuation
- Reviews "tens of thousands" of PRs weekly
- Free forever for open source projects—a massive adoption driver
What Users Actually Love:
One user, Representative_Pin80, calls it "the one AI tool I wouldn't want to be without." They've been using it for months and say:
"Been using it for months OOTB the reviews are pretty good and it will help you spot things you missed. It learns from all your repos so over time it does a great job of catching cross repo issues too."
Patrick C, a Founder, notes that PR summaries, auto-generated diagrams, and file change overviews are "one of the most helpful things for our team".
Strong Integration & Features:
According to aravindputrevu, a CodeRabbit employee:
- Gathers context from ticketing systems, wikis, or other MCP servers
- Natural language instructions for code quality (pre-merge checks)
- Can write docs for your PRs
- Reads and enforces AI coding guidelines (claude.md, agent.md, cursorrules, etc.)
Pricing Advantage:
CodeRabbit offers the most affordable pricing in the market:
- Free: $0 - PR summaries, IDE reviews
- Lite: $12/user/month (annually) or $15/month - Unlimited PR reviews
- Pro: $24/user/month (annually) or $30/month - Full features
- Enterprise: Custom - Self-hosting, multi-org
What Are CodeRabbit's Weaknesses?
Performance & Quality Issues:
Some users report mixed experiences. One user, towry, says:
"Setup coderabbit on my several repos today, my feedback is no so amazing. It didn't find the bug where a method was added but not used in the component, cause event flow disruption. Others review feedback are typos and Markdown rephrase incorrect code fix comes too."
An anonymous user testing for 2 weeks notes: "It wasn't really as good as I'd hoped in architectural questions." They recommend treating it as a filter: "Just make it do 70% of the easy checks, and have professionals focus on the vital 30%."
Customer Support Nightmare:
A verified user on G2 calls customer support "by far the biggest downside of CodeRabbit":
"They have a chatbot that only exists to pre-fill an email. Despite the bot asking for my email address (which they already have on file), they sent the response to my request to our billing contact's email instead—a security lapse. When I pointed this out, their response completely ignored that. Further contacts went unanswered entirely."
Context Window Limitations:
A solo maintainer notes: "Downsides are related to the LLM limitations such as context window. So CodeRabbit won't work on huge pull requests."
Non-Deterministic Issues:
CodeRabbit employee aravindputrevu admits: "CodeRabbit is also a non-deterministic workflow. That means, there will be misses, we don't claim 100% bug coverage."
The Noise Problem: Historical and Current
Historical Noise Issues:
According to a Greptile blog on improving comment quality:
- Only 19% of comments were addressed initially before filtering
- 79% were "nits" - technically accurate but unimportant
- 2% were incorrect
They've since improved to 55%+ address rate using vector embeddings and feedback clustering.
Current Quality Concerns:
A verified user notes: "Although it is pretty good... sometimes some suggestions aren't that great or valuable, but this is an AI and it's pretty much to be expected."
Benchmark Performance:
According to Greptile's benchmarks (note: Greptile has incentive to show competitors poorly):
- Caught 33% of critical bugs vs Greptile's 58%
- Caught 36% of high-severity bugs vs Greptile's 100%
- Caught 56% of medium bugs vs Greptile's 89%
- Caught 53% of low bugs vs Greptile's 87%
An independent comparison study shows:
- CodeRabbit caught 44% of test issues vs Greptile's 82%
- Generated fewer superfluous comments than Greptile
Cursor Bugbot: The Rising Challenger
Why Is Cursor Bugbot Rising So Fast?
Cursor Bugbot benefits from massive ecosystem advantage and strong bug detection capabilities.
Massive Ecosystem Advantage:
- $500M ARR for Cursor overall (2025)
- $1.1B total funding ($900M Series C)
- $9.9B valuation (June 2025)
- Serves over half of Fortune 500
- 150 employees—well-resourced
Strong Bug Detection:
Users report excellent bug detection. A Reddit user on r/cursor says:
"It's very good in my experience. Better than copilot's PR checker. Using it on a massive enterprise codebase and it has found legitimate issues and prevented bug escapes."
Another user, nyfael, notes: "My work uses CursorBot and it seems to do a pretty decent job at finding bugs."
Tight IDE Integration:
According to Cursor Bugbot documentation:
- "Fix in Cursor" button opens issues directly in IDE with pre-filled prompt
- "Fix in Web" option for web-based agent fixes
- One-click fixes with agent scaffolding
- Reviewed over 1 million PRs during beta
- Found 1.5 million issues with 50%+ resolution rate
Advanced Features:
- Reads GitHub PR comments (top-level and inline) to avoid duplicate suggestions
- Team Rules - admins can create rules that apply to all repositories
- BUGBOT.md files - project-specific context for reviews
- Verbose mode for detailed logs and debugging
Benchmark Performance:
According to Greptile's benchmarks:
- Caught 58% of critical bugs (tied with Greptile for best)
- Caught 64% of high-severity bugs
- Caught 56% of medium bugs
- Caught 0% of low bugs—misses entire category
What Are Cursor Bugbot's Problems?
Pricing Backlash:
At $40/user/month, Cursor Bugbot is the most expensive option (tied with Graphite Team). Users are frustrated:
A Reddit user complains about an unexpected $382.06 charge for "pending days of BugBot": "The problem is: I never had a paid BugBot subscription."
Another user, troehrkasse on Cursor forum, says:
"It's pretty dang expensive. When BugBot was first announced, you said that it would be usage-based pricing, basically API rates... That would be awesome and I wish you would have stuck to it. However, the new pricing structure is: $40 per Github user per month, unlimited PR reviews. That's a really steep price."
Pricing Confusion:
The same user notes: "Our org has 8 developers, but most of them only submit a handful of PRs per month, and we have to pay the full price for their handful of BugBot runs."
According to Cursor Bugbot docs, there are abuse guardrails: "Pooled cap of 200 pull requests per month for every Bugbot license"—so 100 users = 20,000 PRs/month cap.
Limited Platform Support:
- GitHub only—no GitLab, Bitbucket support
- VS Code/Cursor only for IDE integration
- "Limited compatibility outside GitHub"
Context Issues:
A Reddit user notes: "The times when it makes false positives or unnecessary nitpicks or due to it not having enough context."
The Developer Experience Nightmare
"Fix in Web" Problems:
Trunk.io documented the DX nightmare:
"Cursor's Bugbot code reviewer and web app are a DX nightmare. The vibes were not good using Bugbot with Cursor's web app. 'Fix in web' shows diff of entire PR, not just agent changes. Nothing indicated what changes the agent actually made—probably not the least helpful thing that Cursor could have displayed, but not far off."
The integration "seems like it was born of a last-minute 'oh ya, these things could work together' decision without anyone considering the developer experience."
What's Missing:
- A diff of the commit changes made by the agent, instead of the whole PR
- A link to the commit pushed to my PR (heck, a notification that a commit was pushed would be an improvement)
Reliability Issues:
Multiple forum complaints document problems:
- "BugBot comments are hidden but not resolved when outdated" - blocks merges when repos require all PR review comments to be resolved
- "Bugbot is not running on newly configured repository" - Setup failures showing "Skipping Bugbot" or "Unable to authenticate" errors
- "Cursor BugBot does not work" - "We had some issues this morning that caused some BugBot runs to hang forever"
- "Starting this week, we have been experiencing high volumes of completely invalid bug reports" - October 2025 complaint
Effectiveness Questions:
A GitHub issue #3195 asks: "Why BugBot found no bugs?" The user notes:
"It can found bugs in cursor app. But it found no bugs in BugBot. BugBot say that 'uses the same AI that powers Cursor Agent to catch issues that humans might miss'... But It really has different results in Github PR. So why??"
Greptile: The Technical Powerhouse
Is Greptile the Best at Bug Detection?
Greptile claims the best bug detection performance, but there are trust issues to consider.
Best Bug Detection Performance (Self-Reported):
According to Greptile's benchmarks:
- Caught 58% of critical bugs (tied best with Cursor)
- Caught 100% of high-severity bugs (best in class)
- Caught 89% of medium bugs (best in class)
- Caught 87% of low bugs (best in class)
Independent Benchmark:
An independent comparison shows Greptile caught 82% of test issues vs CodeRabbit's 44%.
Deep Codebase Understanding:
Real users praise Greptile's technical depth:
"Despite having a tech stack that has repeatedly proven difficult for AI to grasp, Greptile has delivered consistent review insights with a good signal-to-noise ratio that has won over even our most discerning engineers" - Jarrod Ruhdland, Principal Engineer @ Brex
"Greptile has tightened our feedback loops and freed up engineers to focus on higher-level design and architecture" - Mark Tran, Engineering Manager @ Podium
"Greptile helps the team do their best work. It levels everybody up and ensures we're all proud of our code" - Anirudh Kamath, Tech Lead @ Gumloop
Key Features:
- Graph-based codebase understanding—analyzes entire repo structure, not just diffs
- Learns from feedback—improves based on team interactions
Strong Funding & Customers:
- $29.1M total funding ($25M Series A in September 2025 led by Benchmark)
- 12 employees
- $1M revenue (2024)
- Customers: Brex, Podium, Vouch, Gumloop, PostHog, Substack, Raycast, Bilt, Y Combinator, WorkOS, Browserbase
- Reviews 500M+ lines of code monthly
- Helps teams merge PRs 4x faster and catch 3x more bugs
Advanced Features:
- 30+ programming languages supported
- Self-hosting option—SOC 2 Type II compliant
- Click-to-accept suggestions
- PR summaries with mermaid diagrams
- Learns team-specific coding standards
Pricing:
- $30/user/month (Cloud plan)
- Unlimited repositories, unlimited code reviews, unlimited users
- Custom rules, unlimited external app connections
- 100% off for open source projects
- 50% off for startups
- 14-day free trial
- Enterprise: Custom pricing (self-hosting, SSO/SAML, GitHub Enterprise, dedicated Slack support)
What Are Greptile's Weaknesses?
Pricing Concerns:
At $30/user/month, Greptile is the second most expensive (after Cursor/Graphite at $40). A CodeAnt.ai comparison notes:
- "Higher Price Point - $30/user/month makes it one of the more expensive options in the market"
- "Context Window Limits - Won't work effectively on huge pull requests due to LLM context limitations"
- "Learning Curve - Teams report needing time to properly configure custom rules and context"
Noise Issues:
The independent benchmark comparison shows:
- Higher false positive count (11 vs CodeRabbit's 2)
- "Greptile slightly edged out CodeRabbit in catching critical bugs (12 vs. 10)" but "Greptile had a much higher count here (11 vs. 2 for CodeRabbit)" for false positives
- "Comments/Noise: Greptile High vs. CodeRabbit Moderate"
Performance Trade-offs:
- "Avg. Wait Time: Greptile ~288s, CodeRabbit ~206s" - slower reviews
The Trust Crisis: Greptile's Biggest Problem
Lying in Comparison Charts:
A Reddit user, NatoBoram, called out Greptile:
"Greptile is also lying in [their comparison chart]. I wouldn't trust a software from the kind of person who feels the need to lie in their comparison charts."
Another user, RivailleNero, says: "Greptile is utter YC trash with no real customers."
Specific Lies Called Out:
- "They list Shared Slack with US-based support but not Shared Discord with US-based support, it's so slimy"
- "It is self-hostable, but it's tied to an enterprise plan... they're still lying. They should point out the difference instead"
- "You can absolutely enforce custom style guides" - contradicting Greptile's comparison chart
Greptile CEO Response:
The Greptile CEO, daksh510, responded:
"Just looked at the page - not sure how and why this got published. Taking it down and fixing it all today. Embarrassingly it doesn't even have completely accurate info about Greptile. Thank you for flagging this."
Perception Issues:
Low trial adoption is common. One user notes: "I haven't tried Greptile" - a common sentiment.
Another says: "Others worth checking - Graphite.dev and Greptile. But CodeRabbit is more mature imo (plus free for OSS)."
Benchmark Skepticism:
Greptile's own benchmarks show them winning—but they have clear incentive to show competitors poorly. Independent benchmarks are needed for validation.
Graphite Agent: The Full Platform Play
What Makes Graphite Agent Different?
Graphite Agent positions itself as more than just a review tool—it's a complete development platform.
Strong Positioning & Funding:
- $52M Series B (March 2025) led by Accel
- Investors: Anthropic (Anthology Fund), Shopify Ventures, Figma Ventures, Menlo Ventures, a16z, The General Partnership
- $81M total funding
- ~30 employees
- 20x ARR growth through 2024
- Tens of thousands of PRs reviewed weekly
- Customers: Shopify, Snowflake, Figma, Perplexity, Semgrep, Ramp, Asana, Tecton
Exceptional Review Quality:
Users rave about Graphite's signal-to-noise ratio:
"It's different from other AI tools because... it actually works" - Brian Michel, Software Engineer, The Browser Company
"It gives well reasoned recommendations based on the context of what I'm trying to build and what I'm trying to build it in" - Brian Michel
"Graphite Agent is very high signal, unlike other tools on the market. It found a months old bug in our codebase, that no human engineer could spot" - Konrad Komorowski, Software Engineer, Isometric
"So far, every highlighted issue has been a real problem" - Konrad Komorowski
Key Metrics:
- Less than 5% negative comment rate—best signal-to-noise ratio in market
- 3.5% comments downvoted—actual data from 1,482 PRs reviewed, 281 issues led to fixes
- Sub-3% false positive rate across tens of thousands of reviews
More Positive Reviews:
"Graphite Agent has been great for us! It does a fantastic job at finding real problems with our code and not delivering a lot of noise" - Ali Andaç, Software Engineer, Lasso MD
"Graphite Agent is a handy teammate who checks the PR quickly and saves your hours before merging your change. With this instant boost, development process time could decrease dramatically and ensure code quality level. Suggesting teams who aim for speed" - Reggie Escobar, Software Engineer, Soar Energy Solutions
"It's really fast (it caught things before our CI did). It caught things before PR reviewers did" - Reggie Escobar
"We're seeing it comment on nits that we definitely would have missed, which is fantastic for improving our code quality" - Ruven Chu, Software Engineer, Goody
"I inserted our credit card and our lives got better" - Saket Gejji, CTO, Game Theory
Unique: Collaborative AI Assistant (Not Just Reviews):
According to Graphite Agent Features:
- Built into your PR page, Graphite Agent goes beyond static comments and helps you review, fix, and commit your changes, faster—all in one conversation
- AI Chat with full codebase context—"Ask Graphite Agent for explanations on code diffs right where you're reviewing"
- One-click CI failure fixes—"Resolve CI failures in one click - Graphite Agent identifies the issue and applies the fix for you"
- Instant commit suggestions—"Turn suggested fixes into commits in seconds"
- Built-in editor view—"See and edit your code in context with a complete, built-in editor on your PR page"
- In-line context—"Get in-line context on code changes - Ask Graphite Agent for explanations on code diffs"
Comprehensive Platform (Beyond Just AI Review):
- Stacked PRs - CLI + VSCode extension + MCP for breaking large PRs into smaller, reviewable chunks
- Merge Queue - Stack-aware, keeps branches green, lands PRs in order
- PR Inbox - Unified inbox for team's PRs
- Team Insights - Analytics on review metrics, bottlenecks, throughput
- Automations - Workflow automation
- Slack notifications - Actionable notifications
- CI Optimizations - Stacking-integrated CI that only runs when needed
Transparent Pricing:
- Hobby (Free): Personal repos, limited AI Reviews & Graphite Agent, CLI, VSCode, MCP
- Starter: $20/user/month (annually) - All org repos, Slack, team insights, limited AI
- Team: $40/user/month (annually) - UNLIMITED AI Reviews & Graphite Agent, AI customizations, automations, merge queue
- Enterprise: Custom - Advanced merge queue, custom analytics, ACLs, SAML, audit logs, GHES support, premium support
- 20% discount on annual billing
Case Study Proof Points:
- "Graphite speeds up code review by 40x with Claude" - Anthropic case study
- "How stacked PRs help Semgrep engineers move faster"
- "How Shopify scaled their developer productivity with stacking"
- "See how Ramp ships code 3x faster with Graphite"
- "Stacking PRs with Graphite helped engineers at Asana save 7 hours per week"
Advanced AI Features:
- Custom rules in plain language—"Write your team's preferred rules in plain language, or choose from templates"
- Rule templates: OWASP Security, Airbnb JavaScript, a11y Accessibility, PEP Python, Google Java/TypeScript/Go, Airbnb Ruby
- Filters—"Define information to consider when determining types of comments not to leave"
- Codebase-aware analysis—"Graphite Agent integrates directly with GitHub... No context switching needed"
What Are Graphite Agent's Limitations?
Limited Public Discussion Volume:
Fewer Reddit mentions compared to CodeRabbit's extensive discussion threads. One user notes: "Others worth checking - Graphite.dev and Greptile. But CodeRabbit is more mature imo."
Less organic discussion volume (but what exists is highly positive).
Platform Limitations:
- GitHub only (like Cursor Bugbot)—no GitLab or Bitbucket support
- VS Code only for IDE integration—no JetBrains support
One user notes: "I also don't use vscode/cursor (I'm a jetbrains person)."
Pricing Position:
$40/user/month—tied for most expensive with Cursor Bugbot. That's:
- $16 more than CodeRabbit Pro ($24/mo)
- $10 more than Greptile ($30/mo)
- $20 more than Starter tier (which has limited AI)
Benchmark Performance Concerns
Greptile's Data (Disputed):
According to Greptile's benchmarks:
- Caught 17% of critical bugs (worst performance)
- Caught 0% of high-severity bugs (worst performance)
- Caught 11% of medium bugs (worst performance)
- Caught 0% of low bugs (worst performance)
CRITICAL CONTEXT:
- Greptile has clear incentive to show competitors poorly in their own benchmarks
- Greptile was caught lying in comparison charts (per Reddit)
- No independent third-party validation of these benchmarks
- Graphite's own data shows 3.5% downvote rate and 281 issues led to fixes out of 1,482 PRs—suggests much better performance
- User testimonials contradict benchmark—"found a months old bug no human engineer could spot"
Limited Negative Feedback:
Actually a positive sign—very few complaints in public forums:
- No major scandals like Greptile's lying controversy
- No DX nightmares like Cursor Bugbot's "Fix in Web" issues
- No support problems like CodeRabbit's unanswered emails
- No billing issues like Cursor's unexpected charges
Awareness Gap:
- Less brand awareness than CodeRabbit (market leader)
- Less ecosystem lock-in than Cursor (tied to $500M ARR IDE)
- Less technical buzz than Greptile (despite trust issues)
Competitive Intelligence Summary
Market Perception Rankings
Based on Reddit & Public Discourse:
- CodeRabbit - "Most mature," "the one AI tool I wouldn't want to be without," market leader
- Cursor Bugbot - "Better than Copilot," ecosystem advantage, but "expensive" and "DX nightmare"
- Graphite Agent - "Actually works," "high signal," full platform, but less public discussion
- Greptile - "Best bug detection" (self-reported), but "trust issues" and "lying in comparisons"
Key Differentiators Comparison Table
| Factor | CodeRabbit | Cursor Bugbot | Greptile | Graphite Agent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $12-24/user/mo ✅ | $40/user/mo | $30/user/mo | $20-40/user/mo |
| Free Tier | Summaries only | None | 14-day trial | Limited AI reviews ✅ |
| Bug Detection | 33-56% | 0-64% | 58-100% ✅ | 0-17% 🚨 (disputed) |
| False Positives | Low (2) ✅ | Medium | High (11) 🚨 | Very Low (3.5%) ✅ |
| Address Rate | 55%+ (after fixes) | 50%+ | Unknown | Unknown (281/1482 visible) |
| Platform Support | GitHub, GitLab, Azure ✅ | GitHub only | GitHub, GitLab | GitHub only |
| IDE Support | VSCode, JetBrains | Cursor, VSCode | VSCode | VSCode |
| AI Chat | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Unlimited |
| CI Fixes | ❌ | ⚠️ "Fix in Cursor" | ❌ | ✅ One-click |
| Full Platform | ❌ Review tool | ❌ Review tool | ❌ Review tool | ✅ Complete |
| Trust Issues | Support problems | Billing issues | Lying in comparisons 🚨 | None ✅ |
| DX Issues | ❌ | "Nightmare" 🚨 | ❌ | None ✅ |
| Market Position | Leader ✅ | Rising | Technical | Strategic |
| Funding | $88M | $1.1B ✅ | $29M | $81M |
| Customers | Tens of thousands | Fortune 500 ✅ | Brex, PostHog | Shopify, Figma ✅ |
Strategic Positioning Analysis
CodeRabbit's Dominance & Vulnerabilities
Why They Lead:
- First-mover advantage in AI code review
- Free for open source drives massive adoption
- Lowest price point ($12-24/mo) for paid tiers
- Strong integrations (GitHub, GitLab, Azure, Jira, Linear)
- Learning from feedback—improved from 19% to 55%+ address rate
Where They're Vulnerable:
- Customer support is terrible—documented complaints about unanswered emails, security lapses
- 79% nits initially—noise problem (though improved)
- "Won't work on huge pull requests"—context window limitations
- "Not as good in architectural questions"—limited to surface-level issues
- Only 44% bug detection in independent benchmark vs Greptile's 82%
Attack Vector for Graphite:
"CodeRabbit is great for catching style issues and small bugs. But when you need to understand architectural context, fix CI failures in one click, and collaborate with AI in real-time—you need Graphite Agent. Plus, our support actually responds."
Cursor Bugbot's Rise & Problems
Why They're Rising:
- $500M ARR ecosystem—massive installed base
- Fortune 500 adoption—enterprise credibility
- Tight IDE integration—seamless workflow for Cursor users
- 50%+ resolution rate—developers actually fix the issues found
- Better than Copilot—validated by users
Where They're Vulnerable:
- $40/month pricing backlash—"pretty dang expensive," unexpected $382 charges
- "DX nightmare"—documented by Trunk.io, "Fix in Web" is broken
- GitHub only—no GitLab/Bitbucket
- Reliability issues—"invalid bug reports," "not running," "hangs forever"
- Effectiveness questions—"Why BugBot found no bugs?" when IDE version caught them
- 0% detection on low-severity bugs—misses entire category
Attack Vector for Graphite:
"Why pay $40/month for just AI reviews with a broken web experience? Graphite gives you unlimited AI reviews + chat + CI fixes + stacked PRs + merge queue for the same price. And our DX actually works."
Greptile's Technical Strength & Trust Crisis
Why They Have Technical Credibility:
- 100% high-severity bug detection (self-reported)
- 82% overall bug detection (independent benchmark)
- Graph-based codebase understanding—analyzes entire repo structure
- Brex testimonial—"won over even our most discerning engineers"
- 4x faster merges, 3x more bugs caught—strong metrics
Where They're Vulnerable:
- "Lying in comparison charts"—caught by Reddit, CEO admitted it
- "YC trash with no real customers"—perception problem
- High false positives (11 vs CodeRabbit's 2)—noise issues
- $30/month—expensive for what you get (just reviews)
- Slower reviews (~288s vs CodeRabbit's ~206s)
- "Learning curve"—teams need time to configure
Attack Vector for Graphite:
"Greptile might catch more bugs, but at what cost? High false positives, slow reviews, and a company caught lying in their comparisons. Graphite delivers high-signal reviews (3.5% downvote rate) from a company you can trust."
Graphite Agent's Unique Position
What Makes Graphite Different:
- Only collaborative AI assistant—not just a review bot
- Only full platform—reviews + stacking + merge queue + insights
- Best signal-to-noise ratio—3.5% downvote rate vs 5%+ for others
- No trust issues—no scandals, no lying, no billing problems
- No DX nightmares—clean, seamless experience
- Enterprise customers—Shopify, Figma, Snowflake, Perplexity
What Holds Graphite Back:
- Greptile's benchmark—0% on high/low severity (needs addressing)
- Less public discussion—awareness gap vs CodeRabbit
- $40/month pricing—tied for most expensive
- GitHub only—no GitLab/Bitbucket
- VSCode only—no JetBrains
Bottom Line: Which AI Code Review Tool Should You Choose?
Market Reality
CodeRabbit dominates by adoption (tens of thousands of users), pricing ($12-24/mo), and maturity—but has support problems and noise issues.
Cursor Bugbot is rising on ecosystem advantage ($500M ARR, Fortune 500)—but has pricing backlash ($40/mo), DX nightmares, and reliability issues.
Greptile has technical credibility (82% bug detection)—but trust crisis (caught lying), high false positives, and perception problems.
Graphite Agent is the strategic challenger—full platform, collaborative AI, best signal-to-noise ratio (3.5%), zero scandals—but awareness gap and disputed benchmarks.
Additional Resources
Official Sources
- Graphite Pricing
- Graphite Agent Features
- Graphite AI Reviews
- CodeRabbit Pricing
- Cursor Bugbot Documentation
- Greptile Website
- Greptile Pricing
External Research & Benchmarks
- Greptile Benchmarks 2025
- CodeRabbit vs Greptile Comparison
- Trunk.io: Bugbot DX Nightmare
- CodeAnt: Best Graphite Alternatives
- Anthropic: Graphite Case Study
- ZenML: Greptile Improving Comment Quality
Community Discussions
- Reddit: r/codereview - AI Code Review Tool Comparison
- Reddit: r/cursor - Ever used the Bugbot?
- Reddit: r/cursor - Incorrectly charged for BugBot
- Reddit: r/vibecoding - Considering CodeRabbit for PR review
- Cursor Forum: Bugbot Pricing Feedback
- Cursor Forum: BugBot comments issue
- Cursor Forum: Bugbot not running
- Cursor Forum: BugBot does not work
- Cursor Forum: Invalid bug reports
- GitHub Issue #3195: Why BugBot found no bugs?
- G2 Reviews: CodeRabbit