Comparison

Vettd vs CodeRabbit
which one fits your workflow?

CodeRabbit is a mature AI code review platform built specifically for pull request review. It posts inline comments on PRs, supports a wide ESLint/SAST integration set, and has enterprise-grade controls (RBAC, SSO, self-hosting). It does not audit the deployed website.

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TL;DR

Pick CodeRabbit if

Your bottleneck is PR review velocity on a large team and you need the deepest available code-review feedback per PR.
You need enterprise controls today: RBAC, SSO, audit logging, self-hosting, dedicated CSM.
You bill per-developer and want a flat, predictable per-seat structure.
You already use Jira/Linear and want issue-aware code review summaries.

Pick Vettd if

Your product is a website and you want to audit the live deployment, not just the code that produced it.
You're a solo dev or small team and per-developer pricing is heavy for the value (Vettd is per-project, not per-seat).
You want one finding model across both code and live site — same severities, same UI.
You care about AI search readiness (AEO) — citable schema, llms.txt, FAQPage — which CodeRabbit doesn't cover.
You want auto-generated fixes you can paste into Claude/Cursor as Markdown.

At a glance

Side by side, in one breath.

VettdThis site

Primary focus

AI-app production-readiness scanning (live site + code)

Pricing headline

Free Site Scan · $5 Fix Pack · Watch from $19/mo per project

Free tier

Full Site Scan, unlimited, no signup

Target audience

Vibe coders, indie devs, small teams shipping AI-built apps

Integrations

GitHub, MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf)

CodeRabbit

Primary focus

AI code review on pull requests

Pricing headline

$24/dev/mo Pro · $48/dev/mo Pro Plus

Free tier

Free tier (PR summaries) + 14-day Pro trial

Target audience

Mid-market and enterprise dev teams

Integrations

GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Linear, ESLint, SAST tools

Who picks which

A recommendation for your situation.

Solo indie dev shipping AI-built apps

One person, a few side projects, mostly vibe-coded with Claude or Cursor.

Pick Vettd

Vettd Watch 1 is $19/mo for one project with Site Scan + Code Review + auto-fixes + AI QA on every preview deploy. CodeRabbit Pro is $24/mo per developer for code review only. For a solo dev, Vettd costs less and covers more surface area (live site + code).

Startup engineering team (5-15 devs)

Mixed AI-assisted and hand-written code; care about both shipping speed and quality.

Either works

CodeRabbit's code review is more mature for high-PR-volume teams ($24/dev/mo = $120-360/mo for 5-15 devs). Vettd Watch 5/10 is $49-99/mo per project — cheaper if you're monitoring 1-3 critical apps, more expensive if you have 20+ repos. Use CodeRabbit if PR review velocity is the bottleneck; use Vettd if you also need to audit the deployed site.

Enterprise platform team (50+ devs)

Compliance requirements, SSO/RBAC, multi-org, self-hosting non-negotiable.

Pick CodeRabbit

CodeRabbit Enterprise has the controls enterprises require today: SSO, custom RBAC, audit logging, self-hosting, SOC 2 reports, dedicated CSM, marketplace billing. Vettd is solid for the SMB segment but doesn't yet have the enterprise control plane. Pick CodeRabbit; revisit Vettd when our enterprise tier ships.

Feature matrix

Every capability that matters, side by side.

29 rows across scanning, fixing, distribution, compliance, and team workflow.

Feature	Vettd	CodeRabbit
Scanning
Pull request review with inline comments
AST analysis on push (TypeScript/JavaScript)
Dependency CVE scan (npm audit)
Live URL audit (real browser, screenshot, headers, cookies) CodeRabbit reviews the source. Vettd also runs the deployed site.
Web Vitals on the live site
AI-graded legal pages, headlines, screenshots
AI search readiness (AEO) — llms.txt, citable schema, FAQPage
ESLint and upstream SAST tool integration
Public scan — no signup, no auth Anyone can paste a URL into vettd.com and see results.
Fixing
Inline fix suggestions on PR diffs
Markdown export of fixes (paste into Claude / Cursor)
Generated patch attached per finding CodeRabbit suggests; Vettd ships the patch.		Partial
Auto-merge / quality-gate enforcement	Roadmap
Distribution
GitHub App
GitLab support	Roadmap
Bitbucket / Azure DevOps
MCP server (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) Both ship MCP servers.
IDE plugin (VSCode native)
Public REST API	Roadmap
Embeddable status badge
Compliance & trust
Source code persisted on servers Different trust models — Vettd is ephemeral, CodeRabbit retains for analytics features.	No (analyzed and discarded)	Encrypted at rest
SOC 2 Type II report	Roadmap
SSO / SAML	Roadmap (Watch Custom on request)
Self-hosted deployment option
Custom DPA	Watch Custom on request
Team & workflow
Multi-org / multi-tenant admin
Audit logging
Score history + trend graph per project		Partial
Email/Slack alerts on findings	Email today; Slack/Discord on roadmap

Pricing breakdown

Tier by tier, in your local currency unit.

Vettd

Site ScanFree

No signup, no API key

82 production-readiness checks
Full result detail visible
Public report URL
Embeddable badge

Fix Pack$5

One-time, per scan

Auto-generated fixes
Markdown export for AI agents
Money-back if no real issue caught

Watch 1$19/mo

$15/mo billed annually

1 monitored project
Code Review on every push
Weekly auto re-scan
Score-drop email alerts
AI QA on preview deploys

Watch 5$49/mo

$39/mo billed annually

5 monitored projects
Everything in Watch 1
Per-project trend graphs

Watch 10$99/mo

$79/mo billed annually

10 monitored projects
Everything in Watch 5

CodeRabbit

Free$0

PR summarisation
Unlimited public + private repos
IDE reviews
14-day Pro trial included

Pro$24/dev/mo

Billed annually

Full PR review
Linters + SAST
Jira / Linear integration
Agentic chat
5 reviews/hour rate limit

Pro Plus$48/dev/mo

Billed annually

Custom pre-merge checks
Issue planning
Higher rate limits
More MCP connections

EnterpriseCustom

SSO + RBAC + audit logs
API access
Self-hosting
Dedicated CSM
AWS/GCP marketplace

Architecture & trust

Where data goes, what's persisted, what compliance covers.

	Vettd	CodeRabbit
Source code retention	Pulled, analyzed, discarded — not persisted	Persisted (encrypted) for analytics + history features
Self-hosting	Not available	Available on Enterprise
SOC 2	Roadmap	Yes, on Enterprise
SSO / SAML	On request (Watch Custom)	Standard on Enterprise
Hosting region	US (Railway)	US, with regional options on Enterprise

Migration & interop

How to move, or how to run both.

Switching from CodeRabbit to Vettd

Run both side-by-side first — Vettd as the live-site auditor, CodeRabbit as the PR reviewer. There's no conflict; the two products work in different lanes. If after 30 days you find Vettd's code review covers your needs (most solo devs and small teams find it does), uninstall the CodeRabbit GitHub App and consolidate billing.

Running CodeRabbit and Vettd side by side

Both products install as GitHub Apps with no overlap. Vettd will not duplicate findings that CodeRabbit already posted — Vettd Code Review reuses the upstream ESLint and npm audit rule sets, and dedupes against itself within the project, but does not coordinate with third-party reviewers. Expect some overlap on basic security findings; Vettd's differentiated findings are the live-site, completeness, and AEO categories.

FAQ

Answers to the obvious follow-up questions.

Is Vettd a CodeRabbit replacement?+

For solo developers and small teams whose primary need is reviewing AI-generated code, yes. For large engineering teams with mature PR-review workflows and enterprise compliance requirements, CodeRabbit is the more mature option today. The honest answer is they overlap on the code-review side and Vettd adds the live-site audit on top.

Can I run both?+

Yes. They install as separate GitHub Apps and don't conflict. Some teams use CodeRabbit for PR review and Vettd for the deployed-site audit + completeness checks (broken UX, dead links, missing legal pages, AI search readiness) that no code reviewer covers.

How does the pricing compare for a 5-person team?+

CodeRabbit Pro: 5 × $24 = $120/mo (or $240/mo on Pro Plus). Vettd Watch 5 (covers 5 monitored projects regardless of team size): $49/mo, or $39/mo on annual billing. Vettd is per-project, CodeRabbit is per-developer — your math depends on your project-to-developer ratio.

Does Vettd review code as deeply as CodeRabbit?+

CodeRabbit has been built specifically for code review since 2023 and has more depth in agentic chat, custom pre-merge checks, and issue-aware reviews. Vettd Code Review covers the high-leverage rules (React Hooks correctness, secrets in source, dependency CVEs, App Router migration gotchas, accessibility) plus Web Vitals and security headers from the live site. If your engineering culture demands the deepest possible code review on every PR, CodeRabbit edges us. If your culture demands "is this app actually production-ready", Vettd covers more ground.

What about AI search optimization?+

CodeRabbit doesn't cover this. Vettd has a dedicated AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) category checking llms.txt, AI bot allow-listing in robots.txt, citable schema (Article, Product, Organization, FAQPage), Person/Organization attribution, and JS-free content rendering. As more discovery happens through ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, this matters increasingly.

Self-hosting?+

CodeRabbit offers self-hosting on Enterprise. Vettd doesn't today. If self-hosting is a hard requirement, pick CodeRabbit.

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