BazvsGreptile
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Baz
Baz · Code review agent
#179
Panel
5.63 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 5.8
- Cost
- 4.7
- Longevity
- 5.8
“It reviews merge decisions too, so the argument you lose to a bot is now about whether to ship at all.”
Greptile
Greptile · Code review agent
#154MCP
Panel
5.55 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.3
- Usefulness
- 5.7
- Cost
- 5.2
- Longevity
- 5.8
“Reads your entire repository to review one pull request, then charges a dollar a credit once the fifty run out.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Baz | Greptile |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Code review agent | Code review agent |
| Runs | cloud | cloud |
| Platforms | web | web |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | No |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | No |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | No |
| Git operations | Yes | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | NoDocker Compose and Kubernetes are self-hosting deployment options, not an isolation sandbox for agent-executed code. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | YesThe CLI authenticates from a GREPTILE_API_KEY environment variable and offers `greptile review --json` plus `greptile review status` exit codes for pipelines. |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, GPT | |
| Bring your own model | No | YesSelf-hosted deployments pick their own provider and model IDs for the smart, fast and embedding roles, across OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and GCP Vertex AI. |
| Local models | No | YesThe self-hosted Docker Compose install takes OPENAI_API_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, so any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible endpoint you host yourself can back the reviewer. |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | seat |
| Starts at | $30/mo | $30/mo |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Bring your own key | No | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | n/a | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Baz | Greptile | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.3 | 6.8 | Greptile — Pick Greptile when the bugs in your pull requests come from code the diff does not show; pick CodeRabbit for more hosts and free public repos. |
| El Crítico | 5.8 | 5.5 | Baz — The model behind the review is not disclosed and cannot be supplied, so you cannot pin the thing reading your source or know when it changes underneath you. |
| El Profesor | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| La Inversora | 6.3 | 6.0 | Baz — No free tier at all, and a credit meter priced at a hundredth of a dollar, which is a company confident enough to charge from the first developer. |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 5.8 | no preference |
| El Hacker | 3.8 | 3.3 | Baz — Closed source, cloud only, no key of mine and no MCP anywhere, so the single seam I get is a CLI I can pipe into something else. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.