What “unlimited” means.
Our Team and Business plans include unlimited code reviews under a fair-use policy. This page explains the thresholds, what happens when you exceed them, and how to avoid surprises.
Why we have a fair-use policy
AI code review isn’t free at the margin — each review costs real money in API calls. “Unlimited” works because the vast majority of teams review PRs at human pace. A small number of workspaces running fully autonomous agents can push usage to levels that aren’t sustainable at flat-per-dev pricing. Fair-use protects us and the rest of our customer base from that tail while keeping the pricing page honest for normal teams.
Thresholds
Fair-use is measured monthly and scales by your number of active developers — those who opened at least one pull request in the billing period.
| Plan | Monthly fair-use | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|
| BYOK | No cap — you pay Anthropic directly | 15 reviews / hour / dev |
| Team | 500 reviews / dev / month, pooled | 5 reviews / hour / dev |
| Business | 1,000 reviews / dev / month, pooled | 15 reviews / hour / dev |
| Enterprise | Custom — negotiated at contract time | Custom |
What happens when you approach or exceed the threshold
We use a three-stage escalation. You’ll always know where you stand.
- At 80% of your monthly pool — we post a non-blocking warning in the Slack thread of your next review. Reviews continue as normal.
- At 100% — subsequent reviews this billing period use Claude Haiku instead of Sonnet or Opus. You still get a full code review (all five axes, inline comments, severity tagging), just on our fastest/cheapest model. The Slack summary will include a note telling you the downgrade is active.
- At 300% (hard cap) — reviews are paused until the next billing period or until you upgrade. We’ll email your workspace owner before this triggers.
How to avoid downgrade
- Upgrade your plan — Team → Business doubles your fair-use pool and unlocks Opus reviews.
- Switch to BYOK — pay Anthropic directly and there’s no downgrade. Ideal for heavy users or anyone who wants predictable, markup-free AI costs.
- Contact sales about Enterprise — for workspaces running at true scale or with compliance needs (self-host, SSO, SLA), we’ll negotiate a custom agreement.
How we count
A “review” is one complete pass over one pull request. A re-review (triggered via the “Re-review” button or a new commit) counts as an additional review. An auto-fix run followed by an automatic re-review counts as one review, not two.
An “active developer” is anyone who has opened a PR in the current calendar month. Reviewers and commenters don’t count — only PR authors do. Active-developer count is recalculated on every review, so adding a new dev mid-month instantly raises your pool.
Questions
Fair-use is meant to be fair — if the policy is hitting you in a way that feels unreasonable, email hello@codepulsehq.com and we’ll work something out. In every case we’ve seen so far, it’s been straightforward to find the right plan.