AI Code Review ROI Calculator

The calculator uses industry-standard estimates: average developer loaded cost, typical review hours, and the Atlassian internal study finding a 30-45% cycle time reduction for AI-assisted review. Your actual savings depend on team velocity, code complexity, and how consistently the tool is used. The model is designed to be conservative. Most actively shipping teams see results at or above these estimates.

Optibot is $29 per user per month, billed annually. That is a flat rate: no per-PR charges, no per-file pricing, and pricing that doesn't spike as you ship more. A 10-person team pays $290/month or $3,480/year, the lowest total cost for actively-shipping teams.

Review time includes the hours a developer spends actively reviewing a PR, plus the time spent waiting for a review (unblocked work time lost to the PR queue), plus context-switching time when a review request interrupts other work. Research from UC Irvine (Gloria Mark) shows context-switching recovery takes approximately 23 minutes. So even a brief review request has a larger time cost than it appears.

Yes, across multiple studies. The Atlassian internal study found a 30-45% reduction in review cycle time for teams using AI-assisted review. The time savings come from two sources: faster first-pass review (Optibot reviews PRs instantly on push) and fewer back-and-forth cycles (Optibot catches bugs before the human reviewer even opens the PR).

Loaded cost is the total employer cost of a developer, not just their salary. It includes salary, payroll taxes, benefits, equipment, office space, and overhead, typically 1.25-1.4x the base salary. A developer earning $120k/year has a loaded cost of approximately $150-168k/year. This is the number to use when calculating the cost of developer time.

Optibot reviews every PR automatically the moment it is opened, with no waiting for a teammate to get to it. It catches bugs, flags security issues, and surfaces the most important findings first so human reviewers spend less time on each PR. Teams typically see fewer review cycles per PR (bugs caught before the first human review), faster time to approval, and less context-switching for reviewers.

Yes. All Optibot plans include a free trial, no credit card required. Every trial starts on the Max plan so you can experience full codebase context, all agents, and engineering insights before choosing a plan.

Most cost calculators in this space focus on per-review cost comparisons (like our BugBot Cost Calculator). This ROI calculator instead estimates the value of developer time recovered, which is typically 10-20x larger than the tool cost itself. The real question is not whether Optibot costs less than another tool; it is whether Optibot recovers enough developer time to justify the spend. For most teams, the answer is yes within the first month.