AI Developer pricing compared
What 6 ai developer tools actually cost — free tiers, the cheapest paid plan, and where each free plan runs out. Each figure is taken from the vendor’s own pricing page and dated, so you can see when we last checked.
| Tool | Free tier | Cheapest paid plan | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qodo | Yes | $0.012/credit · Pro Team Plan | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Sourcegraph | No | $16 · Enterprise | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Codacy | Yes | $18/per dev/mth · Pro | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Graphite | Yes | $20/user/month · Paid tier 1 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| CodeRabbit | Yes | $24//mo/user · Pro | 14 Jul 2026 |
| Greptile | Yes | $30/seat/month · Paid | 14 Jul 2026 |
Prices are as published by each vendor and may be region-specific — many vendors price by country. Confirm on the vendor’s page before buying.
Sorted cheapest paid plan first. A “free tier” means there is a genuinely free plan — tap through to any tool to see the full tier breakdown and exactly where the free plan stops. We list no fabricated prices: where a vendor only quotes “contact sales” we say so.
What drives ai developer pricing
These are code-review and code-intelligence tools, and the base meter is the developer seat, $18 on Codacy, $24 to $48 on CodeRabbit, $20 to $40 on Graphite, all per developer per month. What complicates it is a review-credit layer bolted on for the AI work: Greptile includes 50 credits per seat and charges $1 per additional credit, and Qodo abandons seats almost entirely, pricing at $0.012 per credit with pooled team credits and reviews measured in credit consumption. So cost is really seats times a credit allowance, where a credit roughly equals a review or an agentic action. Two structural discounts shape the category: nearly every vendor is free forever for open-source and public repos (Codacy, CodeRabbit, Greptile), and startups get breaks, Greptile halves the price for pre-Series-A companies under $2M revenue. At the top, Sourcegraph skips per-seat entirely with a roughly $16K annual enterprise starting figure.
How to choose on price
Work out whether your codebase is public or private first, because open-source repos run free on Codacy, CodeRabbit, and Greptile, and paying anything for public-repo review is pure waste. For private work, the decision is seat pricing versus credit pooling: a small team with steady review volume is simplest on per-seat plans like Codacy's $18 or CodeRabbit's $24, while a team with uneven, bursty review activity is often cheaper on Qodo's pooled per-credit model where you pay for actual reviews rather than idle seats. The trap is a per-seat plan with a thin credit allowance, Greptile's 50 credits per seat sounds fine until an active reviewer blows through it and each extra credit is $1. Early-stage startups should always ask for the sub-$2M-revenue discount before paying list. Free trials here are 14-day Pro-level, generous enough to measure review quality on your real repos, which is the metric that should decide it.
AI Developer pricing FAQ
Are code-review tools free for open-source projects?
Overwhelmingly yes. Codacy is free forever for open-source, CodeRabbit gives free reviews for public repos, and Greptile is free for qualified MIT or Apache non-commercial projects. If your work is public, you should not pay for review at all. Paid plans exist for private repositories, where the commercial seat and credit pricing kicks in.
What is a review credit and when do they run out?
A credit roughly equals one AI review or agentic action. Greptile bundles 50 per seat and charges $1 for each additional one; Qodo prices purely per credit at $0.012 with credits pooled across the team. An active reviewer opening many pull requests can exhaust a per-seat allowance quickly, so estimate reviews per developer per month and check whether overage is affordable before choosing a seat plan.
Is per-seat or pooled-credit pricing better for my team?
Per-seat (Codacy, CodeRabbit) is simplest and cheapest when every developer reviews steadily. Pooled credits (Qodo) win when review activity is bursty or concentrated in a few people, because you pay for reviews consumed rather than seats sitting idle. Map your team's review distribution: even usage favors seats, lumpy usage favors a shared credit pool.
Do startups get a discount on these tools?
Often. Greptile gives pre-Series-A companies under $2M revenue 50% off, and enterprise vendors negotiate. Always ask for the early-stage rate before paying list, since it can halve the bill. For larger orgs, Sourcegraph's roughly $16K annual enterprise figure is a starting point for negotiation rather than a fixed per-seat price.
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