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Why teams switch to Northlight

The two tools teams most often move from, side by side. Hover a column to follow it, or click a name once it docks to see its card again.

Feature
Free migration
Northlight

Reviews that read the whole repo, not just the diff.

Switch in 5 minutes
  • First review in under a minute
  • Learns your team's conventions
  • Fixes as one-click suggestions
  • Cloud or self-hosted
Competitor A

Rule-based linting with an AI summary on top.

Moving from A
  • First review in 5–10 minutes
  • Fixed rule sets
  • Comments only, no fixes
  • Cloud only
Competitor B

A general chat assistant wired into pull requests.

Moving from B
  • First review in 2–4 minutes
  • Prompted per repository
  • Suggestions in a chat thread
  • Cloud only
Speed
Time to first review
Under 1 min
5–10 min
2–4 min
Large pull requests
1,000+ files
Up to 200
Up to 300
Re-reviews only what changed
Included
Not included
Included
Review quality
Reads the whole repositoryFollows imports, call sites and tests outside the diff before it comments.
Included
Not included
Open files
Learns team conventions
Included
Not included
By prompt
One-click fixes
Included
Not included
Included
False-positive rateComments dismissed without a change, across 40 open-source repos we reviewed in September 2026.
3%
18%
9%
Writes missing tests
Included
Not included
Not included
Workflow
GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
Included
GitHub only
GitHub, GitLab
Slack and Linear
Included
Slack
Not included
Custom review rules
Included
Included
Not included
CLI and pre-commit hook
Included
Not included
Not included
Security
Self-hosting
Included
Not included
Not included
Zero data retention
Included
Not included
Enterprise
SOC 2 Type II
Included
Included
Included
SSO and SCIM
Included
Enterprise
Included
Never trains on your code
Included
Opt-out
Included
Price
Per seat, per month
$19
$29
$24
Free for open source
Included
Not included
Included
Migration help
Free, hands-on
Not included
Not included