Code Review Tools

Codacy vs Review Board

Compare Codacy and Review Board side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Code Review Tools category.

by Codacy

No reviews yet

Pricing: Developer IDE plugin free; Team $18 per developer a month billed annually or $21 billed monthly, up to 30 developers; Business by quote. 14-day trial, no card needed.

Codacy is a code quality and security platform for engineering teams, running static analysis, SAST and AI pull request review on GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket.

6 /17 features Full profile

Review Board

by Beanbag

No reviews yet

Pricing: Community free for open source and personal use; Plus $12 and Enterprise $15 per user a month billed annually; RBCommons hosting from $6 per user a month

Review Board is open source code and document review software from Beanbag, run on your own servers or hosted on RBCommons, for Git, Perforce and ClearCase.

10 /17 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Code Review Tools features side-by-side

Feature	Codacy 6/17 features	Review Board 10/17 features
Inline comments on diff lines Leave threaded comments anchored to specific lines of the change, resolved when addressed.	No	Yes
Stacked pull request support Create and review a chain of dependent changes as separate small reviews that land in order.	No	No
AI-generated review comments An automated reviewer posts findings and suggested fixes on the change before a human reads it.	Yes	No
AI-written change summary Generate a summary of what the change does and which files it touches when the review opens.	No	No
Automatic reviewer assignment Route reviews to owners or a rotation based on the files changed or reviewer load.	No	Yes
Merge queue with pre-merge checks Queue approved changes and run checks on each in order so the main branch stays green.	No	No
Suggested changes applied in one click Reviewers propose an edit inline that the author can commit directly from the review.	No	No
Review inbox across repositories A single queue of changes waiting on you, filtered by role, repository and status.	No	Yes
Custom review instructions per repository Configure a rules or instructions file that steers automated review per path or repository.	Yes	No
Linter and SAST findings in the review Surface lint and static analysis findings as inline comments or checks on the change.	Yes	Yes
Review turnaround analytics Report cycle time, time to first review and time to merge per team and repository.	No	Yes
Multi-host support for GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket Connects to at least two of the major git hosts rather than one, with the same review features.	Yes	Yes
Issue tracker linking from reviews Link a review to issues in Jira, Linear or similar and update their status on merge.	No	No
Chat notifications for review requests Post review requests, approvals and merges to Slack or Microsoft Teams channels.	No	Yes
CLI for creating and updating reviews Open, update, rebase and land changes from the terminal without the web UI.	No	Yes
Self-hosted deployment of the review tool Run the review service inside your own infrastructure instead of the vendor's cloud.	Yes	Yes
Free code review for open source repositories Public or open source repositories can use the tool at no cost.	Yes	Yes
Overall Rating	No reviews yet	No reviews yet

Codacy 6/17 features

Inline comments on diff lines: No
Stacked pull request support: No
AI-generated review comments: Yes
AI-written change summary: No
Automatic reviewer assignment: No
Merge queue with pre-merge checks: No
Suggested changes applied in one click: No
Review inbox across repositories: No
Custom review instructions per repository: Yes
Linter and SAST findings in the review: Yes
Review turnaround analytics: No
Multi-host support for GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket: Yes
Issue tracker linking from reviews: No
Chat notifications for review requests: No
CLI for creating and updating reviews: No
Self-hosted deployment of the review tool: Yes
Free code review for open source repositories: Yes

No reviews yet

Review Board 10/17 features

Inline comments on diff lines: Yes
Stacked pull request support: No
AI-generated review comments: No
AI-written change summary: No
Automatic reviewer assignment: Yes
Merge queue with pre-merge checks: No
Suggested changes applied in one click: No
Review inbox across repositories: Yes
Custom review instructions per repository: No
Linter and SAST findings in the review: Yes
Review turnaround analytics: Yes
Multi-host support for GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket: Yes
Issue tracker linking from reviews: No
Chat notifications for review requests: Yes
CLI for creating and updating reviews: Yes
Self-hosted deployment of the review tool: Yes
Free code review for open source repositories: Yes

No reviews yet

Pricing

Codacy

Developer IDE plugin free; Team $18 per developer a month billed annually or $21 billed monthly, up to 30 developers; Business by quote. 14-day trial, no card needed.

See all plans

Review Board

Community free for open source and personal use; Plus $12 and Enterprise $15 per user a month billed annually; RBCommons hosting from $6 per user a month

See all plans

Explore Each Product

Codacy Read reviews, features & pricing

Review Board Read reviews, features & pricing

Looking for more options?

Browse all Code Review Tools