Sourcery

Sourcery

AI code review and security scanning that reviews every pull request and posts fixes you can commit.

84/100Safe BetFree · from $12/developer/month billed annually ($15 billed monthly)Freemium

Buy Sourcery if your bottleneck is PR volume, not deep static analysis. Review and security in one bot, a two-minute install, IDE feedback in Cursor and VS Code, and an API for findings mean you get value without re-architecting your pipeline. Pro at $12/seat/month billed annually ($15 month-to-month) covers private-repo review; Team at $24/seat/month billed annually ($30 month-to-month) adds nightly scans of 50 repos and the full issues dashboard. Open source is free forever. Don't buy it as a Semgrep or SonarQube replacement — it is not built for exhaustive taint analysis.

Verified 2d ago · liveness 84/100 · cite: rightaichoice.com/tools/sourcery

Best for
  • Teams whose AI coding agents open PRs faster than humans can review them
  • Security-conscious orgs wanting review plus SAST/SCA/secrets/IaC/license in one bot
  • Developers who want feedback inside Cursor, VS Code or JetBrains
  • Engineering managers trying to cut PR cycle time
Not ideal for
  • Teams that need a dedicated SAST engine with deep taint analysis and no interest in PR review
  • Small teams whose PR volume is low enough that a $24/seat/month Team plan billed annually doesn't pay for itself
  • Security teams that need exhaustive dataflow tracing or blast-radius reporting
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IntermediateGitHub or GitLab: roughly two minutes to install and get the first PR review — the vendor puts the install at two minutes and no credit card is needed. IDE extension: minutes to install, but budget a session to tune review rules and custom prompts. Team-tier scanning: plan a day to set per-repository risk profiles and triage the initial nightly findings backlog. Enterprise self-hosting is aWeb · Plugin · APIAPI available3.4k viewsVerified 2d ago
Pricing
Free · from $12/developer/month billed annually ($15 billed monthly)
FreemiumFree tier4 plans6 hidden costs
Learning curve
Intermediate
GitHub or GitLab: roughly two minutes to install and get the first PR review — the vendor puts the install at two minutes and no credit card is needed. IDE extension: minutes to install, but budget a session to tune review rules and custom prompts. Team-tier scanning: plan a day to set per-repository risk profiles and triage the initial nightly findings backlog. Enterprise self-hosting is a
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Who it's for
Engineering manager with coding agents opening PRsDeveloper working in Cursor or VS CodeSecurity lead at a 50-repo org on Team
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Skip Sourcery if you need a dedicated SAST engine with exhaustive taint analysis and blast-radius reporting — it's built to sit alongside your PR flow, not to replace a Semgrep or SonarQube benchmark.

The 30-second take
Biggest gripe

Pro's biweekly security scans cap at 10 repos — if codebase-wide scanning is the reason you're buying, you're upgrading to Team at $24/seat/month billed annually ($30 month-to-month).

Price reality

The pricing ladder is honest and shallow. Free for public repos, $12/seat/month billed annually ($15 month-to-month) for private-repo review on Pro, $24 ($30 monthly) for Team with nightly scanning and the issues dashboard. That's mid-market territory: cheaper than enterprise review platforms bundled with an appsec suite, more than a bare PR-comment bot. Small teams should budget for Team, not Pro, once scanning matters.

In short

Sourcery — AI code review and security scanning that reviews every pull request and posts fixes you can commit. Best for Teams whose AI coding agents open PRs faster than humans can review them, Security-conscious orgs wanting review plus SAST/SCA/secrets/IaC/license in one bot, Developers who want feedback inside Cursor, VS Code or JetBrains. Free to start; paid plans from $12/mo.

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What's new in Sourcery

Checked 2 days ago

Across the latest 4 updates: 4 feature updates.

What people actually say about Sourcery — is it worth it?

We ran a structured research pass across product reviews, community discussions, and post-purchase forum threads to surface the patterns vendors won't publish themselves. Below: the recurring strengths, the hidden costs people mention most, and the cohort that consistently regrets adopting this tool.

12 mentions across 5 sources (Hacker News, YouTube, Product Hunt, GitHub, Lemmy), 57 more we could not attribute · researched Oct 14, 2026.

30% positive70% critical

Weighted by the 69 posts each of 5 sources contributed.

Recurring strengths
  • +Maintainers close reported bugs fast — PyCharm, spurious-PR-issue, and subscription bugs all fixed within days of report
  • +Combines PR review and security scanning (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, license) in one gate instead of two vendors
  • +One-click suggested fixes, including multi-file resolution, let you commit review changes straight from the PR
  • +Nightly scheduled and on-demand scans cover the existing codebase, not just the diff
  • +Documented API and Jira integration pull findings into existing pipelines and project tracking
Recurring frustrations
  • −Files with PEP 695/PEP 758 syntax are silently skipped and reported as 'No issues detected' — a false all-clear
  • −Some reported bugs sit open for over a year with zero maintainer comments (pre-commit EOFError, since Aug 2024)
  • −The 'Triplecheck' author groups Sourcery with single-pass bots that 'drop comments' versus a reviewer/coder loop
  • −Nightly scheduled scans cap at 50 repos on Team, which tightens fast for mid-size orgs
  • −GitHub Enterprise Server and self-hosting are Enterprise-only, leaving smaller self-hosted teams out
Patterns worth knowing
The 'Sourcery' name collides with Pratchett's Discworld novel, drowning out nearly all real product discussion
Seen on YouTube, Hacker News, Lemmy, Product Hunt
Bot-vs-bot competition: Sourcery is cited alongside CodeRabbit as the single-pass review baseline others try to beat
Seen on Hacker News
Maintainers respond to reported bugs quickly, with same-week closures through Sep–Oct 2026
Seen on GitHub
Learning curve
intermediateProductive in ~A few hours
Hidden costs people mention
  • • The 50-repo cap on Team-tier scheduled scans forces an upgrade as your org grows
  • • Self-hosting and GitHub Enterprise Server support sit behind Enterprise, so 'self-managed' options on cheaper plans don't cover GHES
  • • The public tier structure was not clearly surfaced in the scraped data, so exact seat or repo pricing must be confirmed with the vendor directly

Viability Score

84/100
Safe Bet

How well maintained and how widely used is Sourcery? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this

Recent activity
90
Traction
100
Site health
95
User sentiment
27
What the vendor publishes
80

Last calculated: October 2026

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Key Features

  • Line-by-line code review posted on every pull request
  • PR summaries with Mermaid diagrams of code changes
  • One-click suggested fixes, including multi-file resolution
  • Batch-apply suggested changes to a PR
  • Auto-approve low-risk PRs with no blocking findings
  • Security scanning in one pass: SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and license detection
  • Nightly scheduled scans across repos (50 repos on Team)
  • On-demand scans of your existing codebase
  • Findings dashboard with Critical/High/Medium/Low severity triage
  • Per-repository risk profiles
  • IDE review and one-click apply in VS Code, PyCharm, JetBrains, Cursor and Windsurf
  • IDE chat for on-demand review with one-click apply
  • Custom review rules and custom prompts for the review models
  • Coding-agent integration so agents can fix Sourcery findings
  • Sourcery API for pulling security findings into your own pipelines

About Sourcery

FreemiumIntermediateAPI availableWeb · Plugin · API

Sourcery reviews every pull request on GitHub, GitLab.com, self-managed GitLab, and GitHub Enterprise Server within minutes, posting a PR summary with Mermaid diagrams, inline review comments, and suggested fixes you can commit straight from the PR or batch-apply. It catches logic errors, missed edge cases and security issues — the vendor's open-source examples include a misspelled Jackson @JsonProperty in prestodb/presto that would have broken wire compatibility, and a missing import in Nuitka that raised NameError on any recognized module candidate. It also does codebase-wide security. The December 2025 release brought the full scanner stack — SAST, SCA, exposed secrets, infrastructure-as-code and license detection — into one scanning pass, so the same bot that reviews your diff also flags an eval-based RCE, a dependency with a known CVE, or a misconfigured IaC file. Scheduled scans surface issues outside the diff, and findings land in a dashboard triaged Critical/High/Medium/Low with per-repository risk profiles. Coding agents can consume the findings to fix issues directly, and a documented API pulls security findings into your own pipelines. It is built for teams whose AI coding agents open pull requests faster than humans can read them, and who would rather have review and security behind one gate than bolt a review vendor onto a separate SAST tool. Review rules and custom prompts let you enforce your own style guide rather than argue about it in the PR. Review also lives inside VS Code, PyCharm, JetBrains IDEs, Cursor and Windsurf, so feedback arrives before you commit. Privacy posture is explicit: Sourcery states it keeps no copy of your code after a review, never trains models on it, and is SOC 2 Type II compliant. The vendor says it reviews every language GitHub recognizes, including Python, TypeScript, Java, Go and Rust. Where it does not compete is exhaustive taint analysis — if your security team benchmarks scanners against Semgrep or SonarQube for dataflow tracing, this is the wrong tool for that job.

Behind the Verdict

Sourcery's pitch is consolidation, and the product backs it up on paper. One install gives you inline review comments, PR summaries with Mermaid diagrams, one-click suggested fixes (including multi-file), and auto-approve for low-risk PRs with no blocking findings. The step that matters commercially is the December 2025 scanner expansion: SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and license detection now run in a single scanning pass. For a team already paying for a review bot, folding a secrets scanner and a dependency-CVE check into the same gate removes a vendor and a workflow. The tier structure is the honest part of the story and the thing most buyers get wrong. Security scan frequency and repo coverage are tiered, not flat. Open Source and Pro scan biweekly, capped at 3 and 10 repos respectively; only Team moves to nightly scans, and Team covers 50 repos rather than an unlimited number. Review rate limits jump at Team too, so an unusually busy repo can sit below the ceiling on Pro and still hit it. If codebase-wide continuous scanning is why you're buying, Team is the floor, not Pro. Where Sourcery fits best: mid-size engineering orgs adopting Cursor, Windsurf or coding agents that generate PRs faster than reviewers can read them. The IDE surface — VS Code, PyCharm, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, with a rebuilt chat and one-click apply — means the same review rules apply before commit and after push. Custom prompts for the review models and custom review rules give you a way to enforce a style guide mechanically instead of in review threads. Where it doesn't fit: security teams that benchmark scanners on dataflow tracing and blast-radius reporting will find Sourcery shallower than Semgrep or SonarQube, and should keep their dedicated SAST. Small teams with low PR volume will struggle to justify $24/seat/month billed annually. Organizations that need self-hosting, SSO or bring-your-own LLM keys should know those are Enterprise-only, alongside GitHub Enterprise Server support — everyone else gets GitHub, GitLab.com and self-managed GitLab on every plan. One thing to clear with your security team regardless of tier: Sourcery routes code through third-party LLM providers — Microsoft Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI per the vendor's docs. The vendor states it retains no copy after a review and never trains on your code, and it is SOC 2 Type II compliant, but that data path belongs in your own review.

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Real-world workflow fit

Concrete scenarios for the personas Sourcery actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.

Engineering manager with coding agents opening PRs

You install Sourcery on GitHub in about two minutes, let it review every incoming pull request, and start with auto-approve enabled for low-risk PRs with no blocking findings so trivial agent-generated changes merge as soon as CI passes.

Outcome: Reviewer attention shifts to PRs that actually carry risk, and agent-generated volume stops queueing behind humans.

Developer working in Cursor or VS Code

You install the IDE extension alongside the PR bot, review changes in the editor before committing, and use the rebuilt chat to apply suggested fixes with one click.

Outcome: Issues get caught before the push instead of in review, and your review rules apply the same way in the editor and on the PR.

Security lead at a 50-repo org on Team

You enable nightly scheduled scans, work the findings dashboard by Critical and High severity, set per-repository risk profiles, and expose findings to your own tooling through the Sourcery API.

Outcome: Exposed secrets, vulnerable dependencies and misconfigured IaC surface outside the diff instead of waiting for a PR that touches them.

Use Cases

Models Under the Hood

Microsoft Azure OpenAIAnthropicOpenAI

as of 2026-10-16

Limitations

  • Security scan frequency and repo coverage are tiered, not flat.
  • Open Source and Pro run security scans biweekly, capped at 3 and 10 repos respectively; only Team moves to nightly scans, and Team covers 50 repos rather than an unlimited number.
  • Team also raises Pro's review rate limits, so unusually busy repos can hit a ceiling below Team.
  • Annual billing saves 20% — Pro is $12/seat/month billed annually vs $15 month-to-month, Team $24 vs $30 — so month-to-month costs more.
  • Self-hosting, GitHub Enterprise Server, SSO and bring-your-own LLM keys are Enterprise-only.
  • Sourcery routes code through third-party LLM providers — Microsoft Azure OpenAI, Anthropic and OpenAI per the vendor's docs — so your security review needs to cover that path even though Sourcery states it retains no copy and never trains on your code.
  • It is not an exhaustive taint-analysis scanner for teams benchmarking against Semgrep or SonarQube on dataflow tracing.

as of 2026-10-20

Verification history

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12-month cost

Project the real annual outlay, including the implied monthly cost when only an annual tier is published.

Annual total
Free
Over 12 months
Effective monthly
Free
Billed monthly

Vendor list price only. Add-on usage, seat overages, and contract minimums are surfaced under Hidden costs & gotchas.

Plans compared

For each published Sourcery tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.

Open Source

$0/mo

Ideal for

Maintainers of public GitHub or GitLab repositories who want AI review and per-PR security checks at no cost.

What this tier adds

Free entry point: public-repo AI reviews, PR summaries and diagrams, one-click fixes, custom review rules, auto-approve and security checks on every PR.

Pro

$12/developer/month billed annually ($15 billed monthly)

Ideal for

Small to mid-size private-repo teams that want AI review but don't yet need codebase-wide scanning.

What this tier adds

Adds AI reviews on private repos, higher review limits and Jira integration; security scanning stays biweekly and capped at 10 repos.

Team

$24/developer/month billed annually ($30 billed monthly)

Ideal for

Engineering orgs up to roughly 50 repos that need continuous security coverage alongside review, plus dashboards for triage.

What this tier adds

Adds codebase security scanning, nightly scans of 50 repos, the full issues dashboard, on-demand scans, higher review limits and team analytics.

Enterprise

Custom, billed annually

Ideal for

Regulated or large organizations that must run review and scanning inside their own infrastructure with SSO and their own model keys.

What this tier adds

Adds self-hosting, GitHub Enterprise Server, SSO, bring-your-own LLM keys, a dedicated success manager and invoice billing.

Hidden costs & gotchas

What the public pricing page doesn't put in bold. Captured from pricing-page footnotes, contract terms, and recurring complaints.

  • Pro's biweekly security scans cap at 10 repos — if codebase-wide scanning is the reason you're buying, you're upgrading to Team at $24/seat/month billed annually ($30 month-to-month).
  • Open Source and Pro scan only 3 and 10 repos biweekly; continuous nightly coverage across 50 repos starts at Team, so the cheap tier can look like a security product without giving you one.
  • Paying month-to-month costs 20% more — $15 vs $12 per seat on Pro and $30 vs $24 on Team — so a team that skips the annual commitment absorbs a real per-seat premium.
  • Self-hosting, SSO, GitHub Enterprise Server and bring-your-own LLM keys are locked to Enterprise, so teams that need those controls can't stay on Team.
  • Team's nightly scanning covers 50 repos, not your whole estate — large monorepo-count organizations still need a strategy for the repos outside that window.
  • The 14-day free trial gives your whole organization Team features; when it ends, dropping to Pro also drops the dashboard and nightly scans you may already have built process around.

Where the pricing makes sense

The company stage and team size where Sourcery's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.

The pricing ladder is honest and shallow. Free for public repos, $12/seat/month billed annually ($15 month-to-month) for private-repo review on Pro, $24 ($30 monthly) for Team with nightly scanning and the issues dashboard. That's mid-market territory: cheaper than enterprise review platforms bundled with an appsec suite, more than a bare PR-comment bot. Small teams should budget for Team, not Pro, once scanning matters.

Setup time & first value

How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Sourcery — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.

GitHub or GitLab: roughly two minutes to install and get the first PR review — the vendor puts the install at two minutes and no credit card is needed. IDE extension: minutes to install, but budget a session to tune review rules and custom prompts. Team-tier scanning: plan a day to set per-repository risk profiles and triage the initial nightly findings backlog. Enterprise self-hosting is a

Switching to or from Sourcery

How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.

Migrating in
  • →From a review-only PR bot: run Sourcery alongside it for a sprint on a few repos, compare findings, then disable the old bot's status check.
  • →From a standalone SAST tool: keep the SAST for exhaustive taint analysis and route diff-level and nightly scanning to Sourcery, or pilot Team on 50 repos before consolidating.
  • →From no automated review: install on a single high-traffic repo first, tune review rules and custom prompts there, then roll out org-wide.
  • →From GitHub-native review only: add Sourcery as a required status check once you've calibrated auto-approve for low-risk PRs.
Migrating out
  • ↗To a dedicated SAST engine: export findings through the Sourcery API into your scanner's format and keep Sourcery for PR review.
  • ↗To a review-only bot: remove Sourcery's status check, but backfill codebase scanning with your new SAST before you lose nightly coverage.

Integrations

GitHubGitLabGitHub Enterprise ServerVS CodePyCharmJetBrainsCursorWindsurfJira

Resources & Guides

Tutorials & Learning

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