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CodeRabbit vs Hyrax

CodeRabbit judges the change.
Hyrax makes it.

CodeRabbit is the change-management layer: it triages incoming PRs, explains large diffs, reviews code, and its Security product monitors shipped code and proposes fixes. It scales your team's judgment. Hyrax does the work itself: audits the repo across six categories, writes the fix, verifies it in 13 steps, and ships the PR.

Hyrax runs on roughly 400 of our own repositories.

Free plan: full access, up to 100 PR reviews a month for free, a $30 starter credit, and $10/month ongoing.

13verification steps
6audit categories
$0to start, credits included
hyrax/fix-session-timeout
Merge-ready

[Hyrax] Fix: refresh session token before expiry

hyrax-bot wants to merge · +24 −6

13 / 13 checks passed
Baseline test written
Type check
Unit + integration tests
Post-fix audit clean
CI pipeline confirmed
Closed HYRAX-214 · verified end-to-end, no CodeRabbit handoff
Isolated jobs, scoped keys
Inference on AWS Bedrock
Code never used for training
13-step verification
A human merges every pull request

The difference

Same surface area. Hyrax does the work.

CodeRabbit
  • Triages, explains, and reviews changes others propose
  • Security monitors shipped code and proposes fixes
  • Codebase monitoring is security-scoped
  • $24/dev/month, auto-charges per collaborator
Hyrax
  • Proposes the change: finds, fixes, verifies, ships
  • Audits six categories, not security alone
  • 13-step verification before any PR opens
  • Creates PR, closes Linear ticket automatically

Feature comparison

Everything CodeRabbit does, plus the execution it doesn't.

Capability
CodeRabbit
Hyrax
DetectionPR review comments
Codebase audit beyond security
ExecutionCommits fixes to branch
Verifies fix against your test suite first
Writes baseline tests first
Creates PR and closes ticket
ContinuousPost-merge security monitoring
Continuous audit across all six categories
PRsShips verified PRs, blocks merge on must-fix
PricingCompute credits included
Yes
Partial
No

The edge CodeRabbit misses

A fix isn't done until it's verified.

CodeRabbit stops at a suggestion or a scoped patch. Every Hyrax fix runs a 13-step verification before it can merge. Baseline tests are established first, the fix is applied, and the full pipeline confirms nothing else broke. Nothing ships on trust.

13steps per fix
0unverified merges
01Isolated worktree
02Baseline tests
03Fix agent (convention-matched)
04Diff size guard (20 files / 2,000 lines)
05Test regression
06Build
07Auto-format
08Lint
09Cross-project test
10Scanner loop (scans its own fix)
11Review loop (second agent)
12Post-fix audit
13Pull request created

Pricing

Transparent pricing. Compute included.

CodeRabbit
$24/dev/mo

Per-seat. Auto-charges per collaborator. Triage, Change Stack, and Security are add-on products.

Hyrax
FreeFull access, $30 starter credit, $10/month ongoing. No card.
$0/mo
PaidEach paid user gets $30/month of credits.
$30/user/mo
  • Usage included each cycle
  • Whole-codebase audit, not just PRs
  • Autonomous verified fixes

FAQ

Questions about switching from CodeRabbit.

Yes, and the split is clean. CodeRabbit manages the flood of incoming changes: triage, explanations, review. Hyrax generates the outgoing ones: audits, verified fixes, merge-ready PRs. One scales judgment, the other does the work.

CodeRabbit's Security product monitors shipped code for vulnerabilities and sends proposed fixes back through the review workflow. That's real, and it's security-scoped. Hyrax audits six categories (security, correctness, maintainability, performance, architecture, operations) and every fix passes 13-step verification, including your own test suite, before a PR opens.

CodeRabbit's category for governing AI-generated changes: Triage scores and routes incoming PRs, Change Stack explains large diffs in layers, and Security monitors the shipped codebase. It's a control layer for changes someone else proposes. Hyrax is the fix layer: it proposes them, verified and ready to merge.

Its Security product does: it continuously monitors shipped code for vulnerabilities and verifies reachability. That monitoring is security-only. Hyrax's continuous audit covers all six categories and ships verified fixes for what it finds, not just security findings.

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No credit card to start
First audit in under 10 minutes
Code is never trained on
You approve every merge