Cubic vs Review Board
Cubic
cubic.dev
Review Board
reviewboard.orgSide by side
| Figure | Cubic | Review Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $30/mo | $6/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 13 | 5 |
| Spec score · Code review software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.6 (#13) |
| Integrations | Official integration documentation covers Linear, Jira, Asana and GitHub Issues, while the product also documents Notion, Confluence and Slack workflows. | The integrations directory lists 10 version-control, 13 hosting-service, 6 authentication, 4 continuous-integration, and 8 collaboration-tool integrations. |
| Security | cubic says it is SOC 2 Type I compliant, encrypts data in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256, and prohibits its AI providers from training on customer code. | Review Board releases are signed with the project’s official PGP key so downloads can be verified as genuine and untampered. |
| Support | The Pro and Max plans include premium support and a shared Slack channel with cubic engineers, while Enterprise offers dedicated support. | Plus includes basic dedicated support, while Enterprise includes same-day premium support seven days a week, emergency repairs, priority fixes, older-version support, and custom builds. |
Plans
Cubic
- StarterFree
- Starter FreeFree
- Team$30 a month
- Team$30 a month
- Team$40 a month
- Pro$79 a month
- Pro$79 a month
- Pro$99 a month
- Max$160 a month
- Max$160 a month
Review Board
- CommunityFree
- Basic$6 a month
- Business$12 a month
- Plus$1,215 a month
- Enterprise$1,518 a month
In their own words
Cubic
Cubic reviews pull requests with AI and scans codebases for bugs and security issues. It checks proposed changes against the wider codebase and team rules, including possible effects on other code, and learns from senior developers’ past comments and team feedback. The workflow can auto-approve low-risk pull requests, assign a merge confidence score from 1 to 5, and let coding agents fix findings. Cubic supports GitHub, including GitHub Enterprise Cloud; GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab and Bitbucket are not supported yet. It describes itself as language-agnostic and lists JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, Java and C# among supported languages. Starter Free allows 20 reviews a month for public repositories. Team costs $30 a month billed yearly per developer; Pro is 79.00 USD and Max is $160 a month, also billed yearly per developer. For pull requests with more than 200 eligible files, Cubic selects up to 200 for review. Reviews pause after a team exceeds its line allowance unless an admin enables flex capacity at $20 per 10,000 extra lines.
Review Board
Review Board is a web-based tool for reviewing code and other project files, including images, documentation, presentations, and marketing materials. Teams can set flexible workflows, control approvals, and keep an audit trail of review decisions. Review Bot automates checks through lint, static-analysis, compliance, and security tools. A Python extension framework, REST APIs, webhooks, and RBTools support workflow and integration customization. Review Board can be self-hosted on compatible Linux systems, macOS, or WSL for Windows, including Docker deployments, and can run on private networks or in air-gapped environments. Its self-hosted servers do not send data to outside services unless administrators configure them to do so. The software supports multiple source-control systems, including Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Perforce, and Subversion. It is open source under the MIT license, and the Community plan is free. Basic costs $6 a month, billed month-to-month. Power Pack can be tried free for 60 days for unlimited users; afterward, two users can continue using it free. Review Board states that it does not train on customer data.