Graphite vs Octopus

Graphite is an AI code review platform for teams working with GitHub repositories. Its CLI lets developers create, visualize, publish, update, and sync stacks of pull requests. A customizable PR inbox groups review requests and other PRs into sections, with search across synced repositories. Graphite Chat can summarize pull requests, answer code questions, suggest or apply edits, search codebase context, and help diagnose CI failures. The stack-aware merge queue automates merges and offers CI optimizations to skip redundant tests. Documented integrations include GitHub, Slack, and Linear, alongside a VS Code extension; documentation also describes a Mac menu bar app. GitHub is the only integrated Git provider, and new signups authenticate by installing its GitHub App. The free inbox tier allows three default repositories, compared with up to 30 for Team and Enterprise. Graphite says it does not offer self-hosting. Hobby is free; Starter costs $20 a month per user billed annually, and Team costs $40 a month per user billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom, and a 30-day trial is listed.

Octopus indexes a codebase and uses that context to review pull requests automatically. When a pull request opens, it retrieves related indexed code through vector search and sends the changes and context to a configured language model. Findings receive severity ratings and appear as inline comments. The GitHub integration also reviews updates, posts check runs, and can create issues from findings. Octopus supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Forgejo, and includes source-cited codebase chat plus a CLI for reviews, context queries, and repository checks. Teams can use knowledge-base documents to guide reviews, with rules, repositories, and reviewer settings shared across an organization. AI options include providers such as Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google, xAI Grok, Alibaba Qwen, Cohere, and OpenRouter. It can be self-hosted with Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, and Qdrant, with optional local models and embeddings through Ollama. The cloud service stores review and indexing data; findings persist through the PR lifetime and 90 days after closure, while indexed embeddings remain as long as a repository is connected. Free self-hosted and cloud tiers are listed. Live team telemetry requires a paid organization.