Bugbot Usage-Based Billing Calculator

Cursor publishes an average of $1.00 to $1.50 per Bugbot run, depending on PR size and complexity, under its usage-based billing model. Cursor staff have confirmed the figure is per run rather than per pull request, and Bugbot runs an automatic review on every PR update by default, so an iterative branch bills several times over. For a team of 10 engineers each opening 8 PRs per week, one run per PR comes to roughly $384 per month at $1.20 a run, and meaningfully more once re-reviews are counted. Cursor has not published a spend cap.

Yes, for most actively shipping teams. Optibot charges a flat $29 per user per month (billed annually): pricing that doesn't spike as you ship more. Bugbot has no seat fee but charges per review run, at a published average of $1.00 to $1.50. A 10-person team pays $290 per month with Optibot regardless of PR or push volume, versus roughly $384 per month with Bugbot at $1.20 a run and one run per PR. Most actively shipping teams save with Optibot from week one: engineers only need to average more than 6 billed runs per week for the flat rate to cost less than usage billing.

At $1.20 per run and $29 per user per month, Optibot starts saving your team money once engineers average more than 6 billed runs per week. Most actively shipping teams already exceed this: because Bugbot re-runs on every push, a single engineer opening one PR a day and iterating on it passes that line quickly. The calculator on this page shows your specific savings based on your team size, PR cadence, and how many runs a typical PR takes.

No. Cursor has not published a cap on Bugbot spend. $1.00 to $1.50 is their published average per run, but larger and more complex PRs cost more, and Teams plans can raise the effort level for deeper reviews at a higher rate with no stated ceiling. Combined with reviews re-running on every push, this makes monthly Bugbot spend hard to predict, especially during big refactors or release sprints.

Usage-based pricing means your code review bill scales with whichever month has the most shipping activity. Release sprints, audits, security cleanups, and refactor pushes all generate more reviews, often at the higher-effort tier, exactly when you can least afford a surprise invoice. Flat-rate tools like Optibot at $29 per user per month let finance forecast spend cleanly regardless of PR volume.

Monthly Bugbot cost equals: engineers multiplied by PRs per engineer per week, multiplied by 4 weeks, multiplied by billed runs per PR, multiplied by cost per run. The calculator on this page defaults to $1.20 per run (inside Cursor's published $1.00 to $1.50 average) at one run per PR, and lets you raise the per-run price to $2.00 and the runs per PR to 10 to model iterative branches and higher-effort reviews.

Optibot is an AI code review tool that integrates with GitHub and GitLab to review pull requests automatically. It runs structured multi-pass reviews with persistent codebase context, catching breaking changes and business-logic issues across files. Pricing is $29 per user per month, billed annually: flat pricing that doesn't spike as you ship more, and no per-PR fees.

The most direct way to reduce Cursor Bugbot costs is to switch to a flat-rate reviewer like Optibot ($29 per user per month, flat rate). Within Bugbot itself, you can configure it to review only once per PR rather than on every update, keep the default effort level on simple changes, and batch small commits so fewer pushes trigger a billed run. Each of those trades review coverage for budget. For teams averaging more than 6 billed runs per engineer per week, a flat rate pays for itself immediately.