Greptile Now Charges Per Review. Nobody Else Does.

Greptile, a Y Combinator-backed AI code review startup, quietly swapped its $30 flat-rate pricing in March 2026 for a model that charges $1 per review after 50 reviews. CEO Daksh Gupta claimed "less than 10% of active users will exceed the included usage." The company's own numbers say otherwise. Gupta has stated the average PR gets 1.2 reviews on Greptile, meaning 50 reviews covers roughly 42 PRs per developer per month. Linear's entire R&D org already ships 33 PRs per person per month. That figure includes designers and PMs, not just engineers. Greptile's cap sits dangerously close to the company-wide median before re-review cycles or AI agents enter the picture.

The math gets ugly fast with agentic workflows. Developer Matt Galligan pushed 571 PRs in 30 days, which would push his bill from $30 to over $500. The included quota covers 8.8% of his actual usage. Arlo Gilbert reported shipping 15+ PRs per day running Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex in parallel. GitHub's Octoverse 2025 report logged over 1 million PRs from Copilot agents between May and September 2025 alone. Greptile's own announcement acknowledged that "better coding agents have led to a drastic increase in the number of commits reviewed." They priced against a baseline that their own statement admits is obsolete.

Greptile's costs climb with every review. No competitor works that way. CodeRabbit Pro charges $24 per user monthly for unlimited reviews. GitHub Copilot Pro includes code review at $10. Cursor BugBot Teams runs $40, also flat. At 300 PRs per developer per month, a reasonable agentic baseline below Galligan's output, Greptile bills roughly $339 per seat. CodeRabbit? $24. Copilot? $10. Greptile alone punishes throughput.

The billing problems go deeper than pricing. Greptile publicly promises free reviews for open source projects with MIT, Apache, or GPL licenses. Multiple OSS maintainers report being charged anyway. Developer @goetzrobin received a $180 bill, more than his project earns through GitHub sponsorship. His refund came only after public pressure via Twitter. The company also ships no in-app cancel button. Gupta told one customer that "simply stopping usage" counts as cancellation. California's Automatic Renewal Law (BPC §17600) requires an easy online out. "Just stop using it" is the exact friction that law was built to kill.