KodusvsOpen Code Review
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Kodus
Kodus · Code review agent
#155OSS
Panel
6.81 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 8.0
- Longevity
- 6.0
“The command line lets you run the reviewer from inside another coding agent, so the robots can now peer review each other unsupervised.”
Open Code Review
Alibaba · Code review agent
#96OSSMCP
Panel
6.73 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.0
- Usefulness
- 6.8
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 5.7
“The command is ocr, so half your team will assume the review is being scanned in from a fax.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Kodus | Open Code Review |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Code review agent | Code review agent |
| Runs | cloud, local | local |
| Platforms | linux, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | No |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Vertex AI, Novita, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint | any |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesAny OpenAI-compatible endpoint is accepted, so a self-hosted model server can be pointed at, and self-hosted runners are supported. | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | mixed | byok |
| Starts at | n/a | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | AGPL-3.0 with an enterprise-edition commercial license | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 1,439 | 43,231 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Kodus | Open Code Review | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 6.8 | Kodus — Pick Kodus if your team keeps repeating the same review comment; pick Greptile if you want the bot to understand the codebase rather than follow your instructions. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.0 | Kodus — Review standards are expressed in natural language and there is no documented way to test one, so a badly phrased rule fails silently on every pull request. |
| El Profesor | 6.5 | 6.8 | Open Code Review — The reported figures come from a self-authored 200-pull-request benchmark claiming higher precision at roughly a ninth of the tokens, with no methodology published to check either number. |
| La Inversora | 6.0 | 6.8 | Open Code Review — A hyperscaler released this free in May 2026 with nothing attached to sell, so its lifespan is a function of one internal team's mandate, not of a market. |
| La Jefa | 7.0 | 6.0 | Kodus — Self-hosting sixty engineers costs a container and our own model account, and it already speaks to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure Repos, which covers our estate. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 8.0 | Open Code Review — Apache-2.0, a global npm install, and an MCP client, so I can bolt my own servers onto the review and read every rule that produced a comment. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.