# Alibaba Open-Code-Review

13 Hacker News commenters recommended Alibaba Open-Code-Review and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Open-source multi-agent code review tool people find useful for catching issues early, especially AI-written code. Critics note many false positives and hard-to-read rule files.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful in everyday use (5 comments): "We've been dogfooding this for about a year now and we've seen as much as 70% time savings using OCR" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552949)) "genuinely useful – not as a replacement for human review, but as a way to catch things earlier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807427)) "I have good experience with using open-code-review" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861109))
- Catches many real issues (2 comments): "genuinely useful – not as a replacement for human review, but as a way to catch things earlier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807427)) "very good recall (~74%, e.g. found a lot of the golden issues)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410752))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [GitHub Stacked PRs](https://hackerapproved.com/p/github-stacked-prs.md): 64 recommend
- [Gerrit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gerrit.md): 60 recommend
- [Graphite code review](https://hackerapproved.com/p/graphite.md): 52 recommend
- [CodeRabbit](https://hackerapproved.com/p/coderabbit.md): 34 recommend
- [Stage](https://hackerapproved.com/p/stage.md): 32 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Alibaba Open-Code-Review", https://hackerapproved.com/p/alibaba-open-code-review/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).