PRBeePRBee vs GitHub Copilot code review
Copilot code review is built into GitHub and billed through your Copilot plan. PRBee is an app on your own machine that drives Claude Code or Codex, and does the work that follows a review on your own pull requests.
| PRBee | GitHub Copilot code review | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | On your own Mac, Windows or Linux machine. Your code goes only to GitHub and to the agent provider you already use. | On GitHub, inside the pull request. |
| Which model | Your own Claude Code or Codex, signed in with your account or an API key. | The models GitHub offers through Copilot. |
| Price | $5 a month or $50 a year for one license, which runs on 2 machines. 30 days free, no card. Your agent's usage is billed by Anthropic or OpenAI, within cost ceilings you set. | Included with Copilot Pro ($10), Pro+ ($39) and Max ($100) per user a month, and with Business and Enterprise; not with Free. Each review consumes GitHub AI credits, which GitHub's docs put at about $0.25, $1.50 or $10 a review depending on the mode, plus GitHub Actions minutes. |
| Reviews | Reviews your colleagues' PRs and your own drafts in a full checkout of the repository, at the depth you choose: the diff alone, its direct neighbours, targeted searches, or the whole code path from the entry point down. A finding it cannot verify in the code is not posted. | Reviews a pull request when you request Copilot as a reviewer, or automatically if your plan and settings allow it. |
| Review cost | No per-review credits. A deeper review spends more of your own agent's tokens, inside the per-job ceiling you set. | About $0.25, $1.50 or $10 in AI credits a review, by mode, plus Actions minutes. |
| After the review | Works through your own PRs on its own schedule: answers each review thread with a commit and a reply, fixes red builds, resolves conflicts, keeps branches current, and merges when you switch that on. A thread it cannot decide is held for you. | Its suggestions can be handed to Copilot cloud agent, which opens a new pull request with the fixes (in public preview). |
| Learning | Keeps lessons from what your reviewers catch, and follows your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and .claude/rules files. | Follows custom instructions you write for Copilot in the repository. |
| Who it covers | The GitHub account you sign it in with. Each developer who wants it runs their own copy. | Every Copilot user the organization's settings allow, with nothing to install. |
What this page says about GitHub Copilot code review was taken from docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/code-review, github.com/features/copilot/plans on 3 November 2026. Prices and features change; their page is the one to trust.