Greptile
Ranked 3 of 5 AI code reviewers by recommenders
Recommended as an AI code reviewer that goes beyond linters; the most common caveat is excessive noise and nit comments.
Recommended as an AI code reviewer that goes beyond linters; the most common caveat is excessive noise and nit comments.
24 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 15
- approval share
- 38%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful AI code review
“leveraging AI code reviewers like Greptile is the way to go”
Comment from 23 Jan 2026 in “Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation” “So far I've been pretty happy with Greptile”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “There Is an AI Code Review Bubble” “had a pretty decent code review”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap” Described as a great product
“Greptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service” “Greptile is a great product and I hope you succeed.”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “There Is an AI Code Review Bubble” “So far I've been pretty happy with Greptile”
Comment from 26 Jan 2026 in “There Is an AI Code Review Bubble”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Billing and unpaid trial work complaints
“Was unfortunate to read about the instances of OSS contributors being billed for their usage though.”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Greptile's New Pricing Is Predatory” “Along with Greptile they were doing 7day weeks of unpaid labor from "trial periods".”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service” “They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period".”
Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service” - Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “What Being Ripped Off Taught Me”
- Comment from 20 Mar 2026 in “Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service”
Noisy comments and false positives
“based on my experiences with $$$ focused eval products that you can buy right now, e.g. greptile, the false positive rate will be so high that it won't be useful”
Comment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found” “Greptile literally spams PRs with overwhelming verbiage slop and often actively dangerous recommendations.”
Comment from 1 Apr 2026 on Hacker News “excessive noise and nit comments”
Comment from 27 Jan 2026 in “There Is an AI Code Review Bubble”
Other AI code reviewers people recommend
The four most recommended other AI code reviewers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Bugbot | 27 | 6 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| GitHub Copilot code review | 14 | 26 | 35% | 8 | — | — |
| GreptileThis page | 9 | 15 | 38% | 5 | — | — |
| Caliper | 5 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| Cubic AI code reviewer | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
24 of the 26 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“but have gripes with each”
“had a pretty decent code review”
“Was unfortunate to read about the instances of OSS contributors being billed for their usage though.”
“based on my experiences with $$$ focused eval products that you can buy right now, e.g. greptile, the false positive rate will be so high that it won't be useful”
“had problems paying me and all required 7 day a week, overnight, etc.”
“Greptile literally spams PRs with overwhelming verbiage slop and often actively dangerous recommendations.”
“They were not paid at all, they were working long-term on a "trial period".”
“Greptile is an awesome product, not sure where the scam is there”
“7-day work weeks (no days off)”
“Along with Greptile they were doing 7day weeks of unpaid labor from "trial periods".”
“also run greptile on PR's”
“people are trying to reach you with problems and questions about your service”
“excessive noise and nit comments”
“I like number of "great catches" as a measure of AI code review effectiveness”
“Greptile is a great product and I hope you succeed.”
“it was so bad we decided to switch to Claude”
“it also exhibited strange behavior such as entirely overwriting PR descriptions with its own text”
“So far I've been pretty happy with Greptile”
“do you have a bot to do this too?”
“I would argue they go far beyond linters now”
“leveraging AI code reviewers like Greptile is the way to go”
“Same problems everywhere: can't customize what it checks, pricing per seat, black-box prompts.”
“Most code reviewers provide enough information in PR comments”
“LOC metric is in no way a metric that can be correlated to productivity in LLM era”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.