Two ideas of AI code review. CodeRabbit is a bot that reviews every pull request in the open. ThinkReview is a copilot that gives the review to the one person who has to approve it.
CodeRabbit details from coderabbit.ai and its docs, checked 21 Oct 2026
They solve different problems, so the honest answer depends on how your team reviews code.
Choose ThinkReview if
Choose CodeRabbit ifA review bot posts into the thread for everyone. ThinkReview keeps findings in a private panel until the reviewer clicks post.
CodeRabbitPosts into the pull request
ThinkReviewVisible to one person: you
Human in the loopNo clutter in the pull request.
Left: an illustration of a typical AI review bot filling a pull request, not a recording of a specific repository. How much CodeRabbit posts depends on how it is configured. Right: ThinkReview posting one comment.
What each tool does today. Where CodeRabbit offers something ThinkReview does not, the table says so.
| Feature | ThinkReview |
CodeRabbit |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | ||
| Where the review appears | ✓Private sidebar beside the diff, in your browser | ~Summary, walkthrough and comments in the pull request thread |
| Who sees the findings | ✓Only the reviewer, until they click post | ~Everyone on the pull request |
| How a comment gets posted | ✓One click per finding, under your name. ThinkReview cannot approve, merge or block | ~Posted by the bot account when a review runs. Triggered automatically on new pull requests, or by command |
| Setup | ✓Install the browser extension. Add a domain for self-managed hosts | ~Install the GitHub or GitLab integration and add your organizations |
| Review features | ||
| Findings | ✓Critical, high and low issues, each with file and line range | ✓Inline comments plus a Findings view to decide what to fix first |
| Quality, security and best-practice scoring | ✓Scorecard layout with quality, security and best-practice scores | —Not listed on CodeRabbit's pricing page |
| Chat and follow-up questions | ✓Suggested follow-up questions, chat, and "generate a comment I can post" | ✓Chat with the CodeRabbit agent about changes, files and code |
| Fixes | ✓Code suggestions you copy or post, plus deeplinks into Cursor, Claude Code and Copilot | ✓1-click fixes for unresolved findings |
| Custom rules and agents | ✓Custom review and scoring rules, and custom Review Agents run on each PR Loading live limits… | ✓Learnings from your feedback, plus custom pre-merge checks (10 on Team, 20 on Advanced) |
| Pull request size | ✓Lines of change reviewed per PR, by plan Loading live limits… | ✓No total limit on PRs. Hourly review allowance per developer by plan, with usage-based reviews beyond it |
| Tests, conflicts and post-merge work | —Not part of ThinkReview. It focuses on the review itself | ✓Unit test generation, merge conflict resolution, docstrings and post-merge actions (Team and above) |
| PR triage and architecture analysis | —Not offered | ✓Prioritized PR queue (Team), blast radius and architecture impact (Advanced) |
| Security | ✓Security analysis in every review, plus a security or pentest agent you can add | ✓Security code review on all plans. Continuous monitoring on Advanced. Full-repository Deep Scan billed separately |
| Platforms and hosting | ||
| Git platforms | ✓GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket, including their self-managed editions | ✓GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center |
| Self-managed GitLab setup | ✓Add your domain in the extension. No admin token, bot user or webhook (Lite and above) | ~Supported on GitLab 16.x and above. Onboarding uses an admin access token (once) to create a bot user, plus an OAuth app and webhooks. Their guide |
| Private and self-hosted AI | ✓Local Ollama models and a self-hosted Enterprise Gateway (Teams plan) | ~Self-hosting and custom deployment are Enterprise options |
| Code retention and training | ✓Zero code retention. Source code is never stored | ✓States it never uses customer code for model training. Retention of learnings is configurable |
| In your editor or assistant | ✓ThinkReview MCP: paste a PR or MR URL into Cursor, Claude Code or Copilot | ✓Reviews in the CLI, IDE and coding-agent loops |
| Plans and limits | ||
| Free option | ✓Free plan with daily review credits Loading live limits… | ✓Free reviews on public repositories. 14-day free trial of paid plans |
| What you pay for | ✓A per-user plan with a daily credit allowance, spent on reviews, agent runs and conversations | ✓A per-developer seat. Only developers who open pull requests are charged |
| Going past the limit | ✓Optional credit packs Loading live credit packs… | ~Usage-based reviews at $0.25 per reviewed file, with a monthly spending cap you set |
✓offered ~offered, works differently —not offered or not listed. Live ThinkReview limits above are read from the same pricing service as the pricing page.
Both tools charge per person. Pick a billing cycle and a team size to see what each plan costs per month.
ThinkReview Loading live pricing…CodeRabbit Published prices, checked 21 Oct 2026CodeRabbit is a bot. It reviews pull requests automatically and posts its summary, walkthrough and comments into the pull request for everyone. ThinkReview is a copilot. It shows the review in a private sidebar for the reviewer and posts a comment only when they click post.
Yes. ThinkReview supports GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition on a custom domain from the Lite plan. You add the domain in the extension, with no admin token, bot user or webhook. See the GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition guides.
Compare the live numbers in the pricing section. ThinkReview loads its prices from the same service as its pricing page, and CodeRabbit's come from its published list prices. The tools price differently, so read what each plan includes as well as the price.
Yes. They do different jobs. A bot can post an automated first pass into the pull request, while ThinkReview gives the human reviewer a private second opinion before they approve.
Install the extension, open your next pull request or merge request, and keep the review to yourself until you choose what to post.