Tool Introduction

Qodo was founded in 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel by Itamar Friedman (Co-Founder and CEO) and Dedy Kredo (Co-Founder and CPO), operating first under the name CodiumAI before rebranding from Codium to Qodo in 2024. The company launched publicly out of stealth around September 2024, roughly 18 months after its original stealth launch.

Qodo raised a $40 million Series A led by Susa Ventures and Square Peg, bringing total funding to $50 million as of the September 30, 2024 announcement. The team is headquartered in Tel Aviv with additional staff in the U.S. and Europe.

Demo Available?

Qodo offers a self-serve 14-day free trial with no credit card required, plus a Book a Demo booking page aimed at Enterprise-tier prospects.

Tool's Accuracy

Qodo discloses an injection-based evaluation on Martian's Code Review Benchmark, an independent, open-source benchmark that evaluates tools on real merged GitHub pull requests with injected verified bugs and best-practice violations, scored by precision, recall, and F1. Qodo's blog, published March 15, 2026, reports two named configurations.

Qodo Extended: an orchestrated multi-agent layer in research preview, not the shipping default, scored F1 64.3% (precision 62.3%, recall 66.4%), ranked #1 overall, beating the next tool by +10.5% F1.
Qodo (Standard): the current production version, scored F1 47.9%, ranked #4.

The benchmark comprised 100 pull requests and 580 total injected issues across 7-8 production open-source repositories in TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, C, C#, Rust, and Swift, with a manual double-verification ground-truth pass. Because the benchmark was run and reported by Qodo on a third-party-built instrument, the #1 ranking is a vendor-reported result rather than a fully independent audit.

Aggregate Rating

4.5/5 stars (based on 580+ verified reviews across the internet)

Detailed Overview

What Qodo Does

Qodo reviews code as AI agents accelerate how fast it is written, catching bugs, security issues, and rule violations before code merges. Its review agents analyze pull requests, auto-generate PR descriptions and level-of-effort estimates, and support in-PR chat, while an in-editor assistant surfaces issues locally before a commit lands. A shared Context Engine adds multi-repo intelligence to flag breaking changes across dependent repositories.

Who Qodo Is For

Qodo fits engineering teams that must keep review, testing, and compliance standards intact while AI coding agents speed up delivery. Users range from individual developers to large, distributed organizations, including a Global Fortune 100 retailer running Qodo across an air-gapped environment for more than 20,000 developers, as well as scale-up product teams applying it to automated test generation and code review.

Top Differentiators

Unlike single-repo review tools, Qodo's Context Engine builds a unified understanding of architecture, services, and dependencies across distributed systems to flag cross-repo breaking changes. A self-learning Living Rules system enforces codebase-specific standards, and a Governance Portal centralizes risk and compliance visibility. Qodo is model-agnostic across Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, and DeepSeek, with bring-your-own-key support and SaaS, single-tenant, or air-gapped deployment.

Founding Year

2022

Target Industry

B2B, SMB, Enterprise, Software Development, Technology, Retail, Financial Services, Publishing, Travel

Available Integrations

GitHub: installed as the "Qodo Merge Pro" GitHub App, showing 29,323 installations on its GitHub Marketplace listing, that automatically reviews every pull request; a separate free listing exists for open-source maintainers.
GitLab: cloud and self-managed Merge-agent review installed at the project or group level; docs distinguish a v1 and a newer setup flow mid-migration.
Bitbucket: dedicated setup documentation for both the Cloud SaaS product and the self-hosted Data Center edition.
Azure DevOps: supported as a fourth native Git provider for PR-level review automation.
Gerrit: Enterprise-tier only, connected via Qodo Command plus the Merge MCP server to respond to Gerrit webhooks on patchset submission.
Jira: fetches ticket context to check PR compliance; Cloud uses the official Atlassian app, while Data Center falls back to basic auth.
Linear: OAuth connection that detects ticket IDs in PRs and labels each requirement fully compliant, partially compliant, or needing verification.
monday dev: validates that PRs reference a real monday ticket, auto-creating one if missing, and flags non-compliant PRs.
MCP clients: the Context Engine runs as a Model Context Protocol server for Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, and GitHub Copilot; org-connected access is a paid capability.
IDE plugins: Qodo Gen ships for VS Code with 884.3K downloads, JetBrains with 638.2K downloads, and Visual Studio.
Slack: Qodo Command's Slack Bot supports HTTP Webhook mode and Socket Mode, the latter working behind an enterprise firewall.

Qodo's pricing page lists three tiers plus a special program.

Trial: Free 14-day trial with unlimited reviews and unlimited credits, no credit card required; includes agentic PR code review, an unlimited rules system, Git and IDE integrations, pre-PR review skills, and dashboard and analytics.
Pro Team: $30 base price, billed monthly with no commitment; adds the ability to switch or add credit packs anytime, standard support, a customer-set monthly overage cap, and strict data retention. Credit packs run roughly 18 reviews/month for 2,500 credits, 36 reviews/month for 5,000 credits, and 144 reviews/month for 20,000 credits, with overage billed at $0.012 per credit pooled across the team; credits expire at the end of each monthly cycle with no rollover.
Enterprise: Custom pricing for 30+ users on annual contracts; adds SSO/SAML and audit logs, a governance analytics dashboard, advanced self-learning, BYOK, single-tenant SaaS or on-prem deployment, and priority support with a dedicated CSM.
Qodo for Open Source: qualified open source projects can apply for free access.

Pricing last verified: 07/04/2026
Disclaimer: Pricing is subject to change. Please confirm current pricing on the vendor site.

Features & Specs

Git integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, plus Gerrit on the Enterprise plan.
IDE integrations: VS Code and JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion, GoLand), plus Visual Studio.
Supported languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, C#, Swift, Kotlin, Ruby, PHP, and C++.
Supported AI models: OpenAI GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1 Instant, GPT 5, o3, and o4-mini; Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1; Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (optimized for very large contexts); and xAI Grok.
Free trial: 14-day trial with unlimited reviews and unlimited credits, no credit card required.
Pro Team plan: starts at $30 per month, capped at up to 30 users, billed monthly with no annual commitment.
Credit packs: roughly 18 reviews/month for 2,500 credits, 36 reviews/month for 5,000 credits, and 144 reviews/month for 20,000 credits.
Overage: $0.012 per credit pooled across the team; credits expire monthly with no rollover, and spending caps are customer-configurable.
Enterprise plan: custom pricing for 30+ users on annual contracts, adding BYOK, custom agentic workflows, advanced analytics, and single-tenant SaaS or on-premises/air-gapped deployment.

Security & Compliance

Qodo states it is SOC 2 Type II certified, evidenced by annual third-party audit reports, and uses 2-way encryption, secrets obfuscation, and TLS/SSL for payment security.

Free-tier data: usage data covering tests, docs, and reviews may be used to improve Qodo's AI models, with an opt-out and a user-initiated deletion request available via app.qodo.ai.
Paid and trial data: data of paid subscribers is never used to train AI models, is retained for a maximum of 48 hours for troubleshooting, and a zero-data-retention option is available on request, including model options not trained on user data.
Enterprise controls: SSO/SAML and audit logs, single-tenant SaaS or fully on-premises/air-gapped deployment, and a zero-data-retention mode where code is analyzed and discarded with nothing stored, logged, or used for training.
BYOK: bring-your-own-key support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, or self-hosted models.
Analysis limits: code analysis is limited to roughly 800 lines of dependency context; PR data is not stored in the hosted Pro version, and issue data is temporarily stored in a vector database only when a customer uses the /similar_issue command.

Industry Use-Cases

Automated testing and code review at Monday.com

Monday.com adopted Qodo Gen for automated test generation and Qodo Merge for AI-assisted code review. Per the company's published case study, the deployment produced a marked reduction in bugs reaching production and productivity gains from automated test writing, with one engineer describing Qodo as a senior developer able to pair with a junior developer around the clock.

Air-gapped review at a Global Fortune 100 retailer

A Global Fortune 100 retailer rolled out Qodo Merge across an air-gapped, security-restricted environment supporting more than 20,000 developers globally. Within six months the deployment reached 12,000+ monthly active users. Per the company's published case studies, individual developers saved roughly 50 hours per month, and more than 450,000 developer hours were saved company-wide during 2024.

Tool's Alternatives

GitHub Copilot offers the deepest editor footprint, with extensions across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Neovim, Vim, and Eclipse plus a PR-review agent. Its own page notes quality degrades for non-English prompts and less-represented languages and it can occasionally suggest insecure code. It is the only option with review and completion built directly into GitHub.com itself.

CodeRabbit provides codebase-aware review through its Codegraph feature backed by 40+ integrated linters and security scanners, and reports 6M repositories reviewed. Fully customizing review behavior per repository requires its own YAML configuration. Its "Learnings" mechanism and one-click "Fix with AI" commit button push into inline auto-remediation beyond a comment-and-suggestion model.

Cursor spans an autonomy slider from tab-completion to fully autonomous agents that build, test, and demo a feature, with multi-model support across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and xAI. Its emphasis is desktop plus CLI, giving less native breadth across other IDEs than Qodo's plugin lineup. Its "Automations" run scheduled or event-triggered background agents for ongoing maintenance.

Tabnine gives its agents organization-level codebase understanding through an Enterprise Context Engine, with SaaS, on-premise, or air-gapped deployment and a zero-data-retention posture. Its own site does not detail a native per-PR review bot comparable to Qodo Merge. Explicit code-provenance and IP-protection scanning marketed to minimize copyright liability sets it apart.

GitLab Duo orchestrates AI across the software lifecycle with agents for planning, code generation, security analysis, CI/CD diagnosis, and merge-request review tied together by multi-step Flows. It is available only to Premium and Ultimate customers on usage-based GitLab Credits. Its agents run natively inside GitLab rather than as a bolt-on app.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Qodo do for engineering teams?

Qodo provides AI code review and governance, plugging into IDEs and Git providers to deliver agentic pull-request review, cross-repository impact analysis, and codebase-wide rule enforcement across four capability areas built on a shared Context Engine.

How much does Qodo cost to use?

The Pro Team plan starts at $30 per month for up to 30 users, billed monthly with no commitment. A 14-day free trial and a custom-priced Enterprise plan for 30+ users are also available.

Was Qodo previously known as CodiumAI?

Yes. The company operated first as CodiumAI and rebranded from Codium to Qodo in 2024. It was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel by Itamar Friedman and Dedy Kredo.

Which AI models does Qodo support?

Qodo's IDE chat supports OpenAI GPT 5.1, GPT 5.1 Instant, GPT 5, o3, and o4-mini; Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1; Google Gemini 2.5 Pro; and xAI Grok.

Is Qodo secure and SOC 2 certified?

Qodo states it is SOC 2 Type II certified. Paid subscriber data is never used to train models and is retained for a maximum of 48 hours, with a zero-data-retention option on request.

Which Git providers and tools does Qodo integrate with?

Qodo integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and Gerrit for Git, Jira, Linear, and monday dev for ticketing, plus VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and Slack.

Does Qodo offer a free trial or demo?

Yes. Qodo provides a self-serve 14-day free trial with unlimited credits and no credit card required, along with a Book a Demo page aimed at Enterprise-tier prospects.

How did Qodo rank on code-review benchmarks?

On Martian's Code Review Benchmark, Qodo Extended scored F1 64.3% and ranked #1, while Qodo Standard, the production version, scored F1 47.9% and ranked #4. Both figures are vendor-reported.

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