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Greptile vs Macroscope

Features, pricing, ratings, and pros and cons, side by side.

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Macroscope

AI code review, agent orchestration and engineering status updates for GitHub teams

Freemium
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Verdict

Greptile and Macroscope are both Coding AI tools. Both have a free plan or trial. Only Macroscope is available on CLI and Slack App.

Best overall

Macroscope

  • Software Engineers
  • Engineering Managers
  • Engineering Teams
  • Open Source Maintainers

Choose Greptile if

  • You want a tool built for automated pull request review on large codebases, enforcing team coding standards, feeding review findings to coding agents.
  • Reviews use a graph index of the whole repository, so findings can cover impact beyond the changed lines.
  • Plain-English custom rules and learning from past pull request comments adapt reviews to team standards.

Choose Macroscope if

  • You want a tool built for Teams on GitHub that merge a high volume of PRs, including agent-written ones, and want automated review and visibility into shipped work.
  • Usage-based pricing with no per-seat fee, so cost follows review volume rather than headcount.
  • $100 in free usage for each new workspace and 1,000 free Agent credits per month.
Best for beginners
Macroscope
Best for business
Greptile

Features

17 features compared.

  • Full-Codebase Context
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Parallel Review Agents
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Custom Rules
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Learning from Comments
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Review Summaries
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Fix in Your Agent
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • TREX Runtime Validation
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • MCP Server and Claude Code Plugin
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Self-Hosting
    Greptile
    Available
    Macroscope
    Not available
  • Code Review
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Fix It For Me
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Approvability
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Check Run Agents
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Status
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Agent
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Murmur (beta)
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available
  • Macroscope CLI
    Greptile
    Not available
    Macroscope
    Available

Pricing

Plans as listed by each vendor. Check their sites for current prices.

  • Pricing model
    Greptile
    Freemium
    Macroscope
    Freemium
  • Free plan
    Greptile
    Yes
    Macroscope
    Yes
  • Starting price
    Greptile
    $0
    Macroscope
    $0.05
  • Plans
    Greptile
    3 plans
    Macroscope
    4 plans

Greptile plans

  • Starter

    $0

    Free for one active developer

    • 1 active developer
    • unlimited repositories
    • 50 credits/month

  • Pro

    Most popular

    $30/user/mo

    Teams, marked Recommended on the pricing page

    • 50 credits per seat
    • unlimited repositories and users
    • custom rules
    • unlimited external app connections
    • $1 per additional credit

  • Enterprise

    Custom

    Organizations at scale

    • Self-hosting option
    • SSO/SAML
    • GitHub Enterprise support
    • dedicated Slack support channel
    • custom DPA and terms

Macroscope plans

  • Code Review

    Most popular

    $0.05/KB reviewed

    Usage-based PR review, billed per KB of diff

    • 10KB minimum per review ($0.50 floor)
    • PR summaries
    • Approvability
    • custom rules
    • Fix It For Me billed as Agent credits

  • Status

    $0.05/commit

    Commit summaries and engineering status reporting

    • Commit summaries
    • areas
    • weekly digests
    • productivity stats

  • Agent

    $0.01/credit

    AI agent for codebase questions and actions

    • 1,000 free credits per month per workspace
    • Slack
    • GitHub
    • API
    • Macros

  • Enterprise

    Custom

    Contact sales for enterprise needs

Our ratings

Scored out of 10 by the Finder Atlas editorial team. Last reviewed October 2026.

Greptile
8.0overall
Macroscope
8.1overall

Greptile leads in 0 categories and Macroscope in 2, with 3 tied.

  • Ease of Use

    Tied
    Greptile
    8.2
    Macroscope
    8.2

  • Feature Depth

    Tied
    Greptile
    8.4
    Macroscope
    8.4

  • Value for Money

    Macroscope leads by 0.2
    Greptile
    7.6
    Macroscope
    7.8

  • Performance & Speed

    Macroscope leads by 0.1
    Greptile
    7.8
    Macroscope
    7.9

  • Documentation & Support

    Tied
    Greptile
    8.0
    Macroscope
    8.0

Scores weigh documented features, plan value, platform coverage, integrations and user feedback. A missing score means we have not rated that area yet.

Pros and cons

Greptile

Pros

  • Reviews use a graph index of the whole repository, so findings can cover impact beyond the changed lines.
  • Plain-English custom rules and learning from past pull request comments adapt reviews to team standards.
  • Works with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and hands findings to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Devin.
  • Self-hosting and air-gapped deployment are available for regulated organizations.
  • Free tier for one developer, free use for qualified open source, and 50% off for early startups.

Cons

  • Third-party comparisons report more false positives than some competitors; one competitor-run test claims nearly 60% of comments were nitpicks or false positives, which should be read as a rival's claim.
  • Pro costs $30 per seat per month and extra credits cost $1 each, with Plus and Apex reviews using 3 and 10 credits.
  • Self-hosting, SSO/SAML and GitHub Enterprise support require the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
  • Focused on pull request review only; it is not an editor or coding assistant.

Macroscope

Pros

  • Usage-based pricing with no per-seat fee, so cost follows review volume rather than headcount.
  • $100 in free usage for each new workspace and 1,000 free Agent credits per month.
  • Reviews use full-repository context rather than only the diff.
  • Covers review, auto-approval, fix PRs and status reporting under one balance.
  • Free credits available for qualified non-commercial open source projects.

Cons

  • Monthly cost is hard to predict up front because it depends on KB reviewed, commits and agent credits.
  • Documented setup is built around GitHub; no GitLab or Bitbucket support is stated.
  • Murmur is still in beta.
  • Benchmark claims of leading detection rates come from the vendor's own MacroscopeBench, not an independent test.

Platforms

  • Web
    Greptile
    Supported
    Macroscope
    Supported
  • Windows
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Not supported
  • macOS
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Not supported
  • iOS
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Not supported
  • Android
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Not supported
  • API
    Greptile
    Supported
    Macroscope
    Supported
  • Browser Extension
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Not supported
  • CLI
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Supported
  • Slack App
    Greptile
    Not supported
    Macroscope
    Supported

Integrations

Greptile

7 integrations
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Codex
  • Devin

Macroscope

9 integrations
  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • Linear
  • BigQuery
  • PostHog
  • Amplitude
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Sentry

Company

  • Company
    Greptile
    Greptile
    Macroscope
    Macroscope
  • Founded
    Greptile
    2023
    Macroscope
    2023
  • Headquarters
    Greptile
    San Francisco, CA
    Macroscope
    San Francisco, CA
  • Listing
    Greptile
    Claimed
    Macroscope
    Claimed

Frequently asked questions

Is Greptile better than Macroscope?

It depends on your workflow. Greptile is built for automated pull request review on large codebases, enforcing team coding standards, feeding review findings to coding agents. Macroscope is built for Teams on GitHub that merge a high volume of PRs, including agent-written ones, and want automated review and visibility into shipped work.

What are the key feature differences between Greptile and Macroscope?

Greptile: AI code review that checks every pull request against your full codebase context. Macroscope: AI code review, agent orchestration and engineering status updates for GitHub teams.

Does Greptile or Macroscope have a free plan?

Yes, both do. Greptile is freemium and Macroscope is freemium, and each has a free plan or trial.

Which is cheaper, Greptile or Macroscope?

Both can be used for free. Paid plans differ in limits and features, so compare the tiers in the pricing table above.