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Code Review · Reviewed 24 Oct 2026

Sourcery

AI code review that finds more issues than any other AI reviewer.

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Sourcery at a glance
50.8KEstimated total trafficModeled monthly visits498Ranking keywordsPublic search sample98/100Technical health15 pages checked0Referring domainsLive backlink summary

Overview

01

Summary

The useful answer before the supporting detail.

Sourcery is an AI code review tool that automatically reviews pull requests, posting a summary, comments, and suggested fixes within minutes S1. It is used by development teams to catch logic errors, missed edge cases, and security issues in their code changes S1. The main practical value is faster, more thorough code review that helps teams avoid shipping bugs S1.

02

Product identity and positioning

Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.

  • Identity: Sourcery is an AI code review tool for pull requests S1.
  • Core purpose: It finds more issues than any other AI reviewer, catching logic errors, missed edge cases, and security issues S1.
  • Intended users: Development teams that can’t afford to ship bugs S1.
  • Product scope: A single web application that reviews code changes and posts findings on pull requests S1.
  • Positioning: Positioned as a perfectionist AI code review that provides instant reviews for PRs S1.
  • Claimed distinction: Claims to find more issues than any other AI reviewer S1.
03

Use cases and audiences

Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.

AudiencePractical use case
Development teamsCatch logic errors, missed edge cases, and security issues in pull requests before merging S1.
Security-conscious teamsFind security issues in new changes and across the existing codebase S1.
Open source projectsGet free reviews and security checks on public repositories S26.

Features

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Features and capabilities

Core functions and evidence-backed product capabilities.

CapabilityWhat it does
PR reviewReviews every pull request within minutes and posts a summary, comments, and suggested fixes S1.
Security scanningReviews changed code for vulnerabilities and explains findings alongside the diff S1.
Issue detectionCatches logic errors, missed edge cases, and security issues in changes S1.
Codebase scanningFinds security issues in new changes and across the existing codebase S1.
Self-hostingCan be self-hosted on the Enterprise plan S1 S26.
10

Integrations and ecosystem

Connected products, exports, APIs, and workflow compatibility.

Integration or interfaceTypeWhat it enables
GitHubIntegrationConnects to GitHub to review pull requests S1.
GitLabIntegrationConnects to GitLab to review pull requests S1.
JiraIntegrationAvailable on Pro plan for issue tracking integration S26.
GitHub Enterprise ServerIntegrationAvailable on Enterprise plan for self-hosted GitHub S26.

Pricing

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Pricing and plans

Published plans, free access, trials, credits, and pricing limitations.

Plan or offerVerified price and billingIncludedLimits
Open SourceFree S26Reviews and security checks on public repositories S26Public repositories only S26
Pro$12 per developer per month billed annually, or $15 monthly S26Higher review limits S26Private repositories; Jira integration S26
Team$24 per developer per month billed annually, or $30 monthly S26Nightly security scans of 50 repositories, issues dashboard, team analytics S26Not established
EnterpriseCustom, billed annually S26Self-hosting, GitHub Enterprise Server, SSO, bring your own LLM keys S26Not established
Free trial14 days of Team, no credit card needed S26Full Team features S26Time-limited S26

Competition

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Competitive landscape

Domains competing for the same organic search demand.

Sampled competitors

CompetitorFirst-page appearancesSampled queriesAverage positionQueries observed
sourcery.vc313sourcery
github.com313.7google styling guide
eyakubovich.github.io112google styling guide
simple.wikipedia.org113sourcery
music.youtube.com114sourcery
stackoverflow.com114google styling guide
reddit.com115sourcery
chromium.googlesource.com115google styling guide
news.ycombinator.com116google styling guide
goodreads.com117sourcery

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

Page typeEvidenceSource
reviewsPerfectionist AI code reviewhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsFinds more issues than any other AI reviewerhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsDemand perfection from your coding agentshttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsStart for free Book a demohttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsGitHub or GitLab · Two-minute install · No credit card neededhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsFor teams that can’t afford to ship bugshttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsU.S. Department of Justicehttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsInstant reviews for your PRshttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery reviews every pull request within minutes and posts a PR summary, review comments and suggested fixeshttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsCatch bugs before they mergehttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery catches logic errors, missed edge cases and security issues in your changes. It explains the issue and how to fix it.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsWith no timeout on `session.get`, a stalled package index hangs `poetry install` forever.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsUnderstand changes fasterhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery's PR summaries show you what changed and where to focus, whether the code came from your teammate or your coding agent.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsApply suggested fixes in one clickhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery writes the fix as a suggested change, which you can commit straight to your PR.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSuggested changehttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsCommit suggestion Add suggestion to batchhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsAuto-approve low-risk PRshttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery approves your low-risk PRs with no blocking findings, so you can merge them as soon as CI passes.https://www.sourcery.ai/

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

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AI visibility

Measured ChatGPT and Google AI mentions with cited sources.

AI-assistant referral traffic

  • Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 0.4%

Scout traffic model did not return a separate AI-referral trend series for this domain.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

Page typeEvidenceSource
reviewsAI code review that finds more issues than any other AI reviewer. Demand perfection from your coding agents. Try Sourcery free!https://www.sourcery.ai/
pricingStart free trialhttps://www.sourcery.ai/pricing
pricingStart free trialhttps://www.sourcery.ai/pricing
pricingStart for free Book a demohttps://www.sourcery.ai/pricing
pricingScan Your Code for Free Explore More Vulnerabilitieshttps://www.sourcery.ai/vulnerabilities/ckv2-docker-7-apk-untrusted-packages
pricingScan Your Code for Free Explore More Vulnerabilitieshttps://www.sourcery.ai/vulnerabilities/ckv2-docker-7-untrusted-apk-packages-rce
integrationsSourcery’s AI code reviews and security scanning are now available as a native integration in the Vercel Marketplace. Developers and teams can easily link Sourcery into their Vercel projects to get automatic code reviews and security analysis to help protect and improve their project every step of the way.https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
integrationsDevelopers are moving faster than ever, especially as they’re using more of the latest agents and AI powered coding assistants. But, traditional code review processes weren’t set up for these types of work flows. As the 2025 DORA report showed, leaning heavily into AI assisted development can shift where the bottlenecks are for engineering teams.https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
integrationsSourcery’s code reviewer helps unblock teams by providing near-instant feedback on every PR. Check for bugs, security risks, design pattern flaws, or anything else you care deeply about and flag issues in minutes. Every Sourcery review has instructions for AI agents, so you can get your favorite agent to fix the issues Sourcery flags.https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
integrationsA security backstop built for AIhttps://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
integrationsJust like with Sourcery’s code reviews, every vulnerability comes with instructions for an AI agent on how to fix the problem. Take the instructions, add them to your agent of choice, and let the agent get to work.https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
reviewsPerfectionist AI code reviewhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsFinds more issues than any other AI reviewerhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsStart for free Book a demohttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsPerfectionist AI code reviewhttps://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsSourcery keeps no copy of your code after a review and never trains AI on it.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsYes. Enterprise runs Sourcery inside your own infrastructure, with SSO, your own LLM keys, a dedicated customer success manager and invoice billing.https://www.sourcery.ai/
reviewsThis topic has become more interesting in the past months. Folks have started to use generative AI to write both docstrings and longer forms of documentation. Most of the time, the conclusion: ChatGPT & co write surprisingly good docs. They serve as amazing starting points, but need review and improvement from a human. This makes the question even more relevant: Where can we trust tools and where do we need human insight?https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/code-review-automate
reviewsHow can a review tool improve this function? It will probably replace this loop with the `next` built-in function. (In fact, that’s exactly what the `use-next` rule from Sourcery does.)https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/code-review-automate
reviewsDORA found that “teams with shorter code review times have 50% better software delivery performance”. Across a number of technical capabilities and processes (AI usage, continuous integration, loosely coupled architecture, and trunk-based development) code review speed was the biggest factor in driving better software delivery performance and better operational performance.https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/faster-reviews-lower-burnout

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

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Marketing opportunities

Actions calculated directly from the collected evidence.

OpportunityRecommended actionEvidence
Striking-distance keywordMove “docker compose privileged” from position 4 toward the top three.Volume 170 · https://www.sourcery.ai/vulnerabilities/docker-privileged-containers
Important pageStrengthen the page already earning search visibility before creating an unrelated page.https://www.sourcery.ai/vulnerabilities/docker-privileged-containers · 3 sampled keywords · best position 4
Competitor gapReview the sampled queries where sourcery.vc appears.3 first-page appearances across sourcery

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

  • features: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
  • technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Trust and proof

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Customers, proof, and reviews

Published proof, customer signals, and review evidence.

Independent reviews

PlatformPageHow it was foundNote
docs.sourcery.aiCode reviews / SourceryGrounded web searchEvery review posts: - A summary in the pull request description that covers the change’s purpose and risk. - A reviewer’s guide comment that maps the change set file by file and explains how to verify it. - Inline comments on the offending lines, with one-click apply on suggested fixes. - A status check called Sourcery review that reports the review state and can gate merges. No status check posts on GitLab merge requests. ... Sourcery reviews a pull request as soon as it opens, and again when y
docs.sourcery.aiSourcery docs / SourceryGrounded web search# Sourcery docs Sourcery reviews every pull request and scans your repos for security issues. It runs on GitHub, GitLab, GitHub Enterprise Server, and self-hosted GitLab. ... , and dashboards - IDE – review your code in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and
docs.sourcery.aiCommands / SourceryGrounded web searchdrive Sourcery from pull request comments. Mention `@sourcery-ai` followed by a ... or reply in a thread to chat. The handle is the same on GitHub and GitLab ... and variants such as `@sourceryai` also work. You can also run a command by adding a label
docs.sourcery.aiSourcery in your IDE / SourceryGrounded web searchSourcery reviews your code in your editor, before you open a pull request. It runs the same review engine as a pull request review, on your working changes. You catch findings before you push. ... after you push. An IDE review runs in your editor on your
docs.sourcery.aiReview settingsGrounded web searchEnable Sourcery on pull requests is the top-level switch. Turn it off and Sourcery posts nothing on a repository's pull requests. The rest are independent of each other. ... / / Enable pull request summary / The summary in the pull request description. /
sourcery.aiCode Review Tool Comparisons / SourceryGrounded web search# Compare Sourcery with other code review tools Head-to-head comparisons between Sourcery and other code review tools. See where each one fits and what sets Sourcery apart. ... Compare AI-powered code review tools: volume of comments, IDE support,
docs.sourcery.aiTeaching Sourcery - Sourcery DocumentationGrounded web searchSourcery includes a thumbs up and thumbs down emoji on every code review comment as a way for you to easily be able to provide feedback on the comment. ... found it useful, add a thumbs up. If you disliked the comment, found it didn't apply, was incorrect

Customer proof

Proof typeNamed customer or sourceEvidence
Customer evidenceSourcerySourcery uses your code only for the review (source)
Customer evidenceSourcerySourcery uses your code only for the review and keeps no copy afterwards. (source)

Independent mentions

  • Perfectionist AI Code Review / Sourcery — # Perfectionist AI code review Finds more issues than any other AI reviewer Demand perfection from your coding agents ... Sourcery reviews every pull request within minutes and posts a PR summary, review comments and suggested fixes ... Sourcery catches logic errors, missed edge cases and security issues in your changes. It explains the issue and how to fix it. With ... Sourcery writes the fix as a suggested change, which you can commit straight to your PR. ... Sourcery approves your low-risk PR
  • sourcery-ai/sourcery — Sourcery is an automated code reviewer that will review any pull request on any GitHub repository to provide instant feedback on the proposed changes. Every review will include a summary of the changes, high level feedback, and line by line suggestions/comments (where relevant). ... ## Privacy & Security We use both OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs to provide pieces of our code reviews. Because of this, we need to send them sections of your code (typically the diff of the PR). ... However, none of your
  • Security Scanning for GitHub and GitLab / Sourcery — # Ship code you know is secure Sourcery scans every pull request and your whole codebase, and shows you how to fix what it finds. ... ### Find vulnerable code Spot injection, path traversal, cross-site scripting and other flaws in your source code.

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

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Company, security, and trust

Ownership, policies, security signals, and public trust evidence.

SignalFindingSource
Company and ownershipNot published on the collected pages.—
Contact and supportto: customer.phonesource
Legal and privacyCan I cancel anytime?source
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II compliantsource
Uptime and status pageNot published on the collected pages.—
Domain registered2018-01-21—
Domain expires2028-01-21—

Not found on the collected pages: company and ownership, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

17

Documentation and product updates

Help resources, product guidance, and visible changes over time.

Resource or updateTypeWhat is availableDate or freshness
Product FAQFAQAnswers common product, workflow, pricing, privacy, ownership, API, and team questions. (source)Not dated

Not found in the collected public sources: public roadmap, changelog or release notes, status page, separate help center or knowledge base.

Technical

18

Technical and delivery signals

Delivery model, platforms, API, data ownership, reliability claims and release activity.

SignalFindingSource
Delivery model (cloud, self-hosted, desktop, browser extension)Sourcery is a cloud service that can be self-hosted on the Enterprise plan S1 S26.S1 S26
Platforms and appsIntegrates with GitHub and GitLab S1.S1
API and extensibility (API, SDK, webhooks, MCP, plugins)Not published on the collected pages.—
Data ownership and exportSourcery keeps no copy of your code after a review and never trains AI on it S1.S1
Performance and reliability claimsReviews every pull request within minutes S1.S1
Release activityNot published on the collected pages.—
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Measured infrastructure

Domain, certificate, and hosting signals, measured directly.

SignalFinding
Domain registered2018-01-21 — Marcaria International LLC
Domain expires2028-01-21
First archived2019-09-17 — web archive
TLS certificateLet's Encrypt, valid, expires 2026-12-24
Security headersHSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options
Headers not servedX-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy
Server headerVercel
Mail handled byaspmx.l.google.com, alt2.aspmx.l.google.com
Nameserversns-cloud-a3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-a4.googledomains.com
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Technical site audit

A bounded multi-page crawl with page-level issues and URLs.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

  • Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
  • Technical health: 98/100
  • Critical issues: 0
  • Warnings: 4
  • Notices: 4

Issues

SeverityIssueValueAffected URL
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed184https://www.sourcery.ai/pricing
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed15https://www.sourcery.ai/data-processing
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed20https://www.sourcery.ai/data-retention
noticeMeta description length should be reviewed20https://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.sourcery.ai/
warningDuplicate title in audit sample2https://www.sourcery.ai/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.sourcery.ai/
warningDuplicate meta description in audit sample2https://www.sourcery.ai/

Crawled pages

StatusTitleH1sWordsResponseURL
200Perfectionist AI Code Review \Sourcery176644 ms
200Perfectionist AI Code Review \Sourcery176612 ms
200Security Scanning for GitHub and GitLab \Sourcery185044 ms
200Pricing · Free for Open Source \Sourcery148154 ms
200Sourcery Blog1105540 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/blog
200Security Vulnerability Database \Sourcery125459265 ms
200Security vulnerabilities \Sourcery Security Knowledge Base147021 ms
200Code Review Tool Comparisons \Sourcery121817 ms
200Privacy Policy1196925 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/privacy
200Terms and Conditions1194318 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/terms
200Data Processing Agreement1705180 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/data-processing
200Data Retention Policy1576201 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/data-retention
200Bringing Code Quality & Security to More Fast Moving Teams144315 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/blog/sourcery-vercel-integration
200Does Working with Bad Code Make Agents Worse?11492173 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/blog/does-bad-code-make-agents-worse
200The Code Quality Battle Royale1163117 mshttps://www.sourcery.ai/blog/ai-agents-and-code-quality

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

21

Search Console and Analytics

First-party search and behavioral data connection state.

Modeled acquisition channels

ChannelEstimated share
direct57.6%
search22.5%
search organic22.0%
search paid0.5%
social6.7%
social organic4.9%
social paid1.8%
referrals9.2%
paid referrals0.8%
mail2.4%
gen ai0.4%
affiliate0.4%
other0.0%

First-party connections

IntegrationStatusData available after connection
Google Search ConsoleNot connectedClicks, impressions, CTR, average position, queries, pages, countries, and devices
Google AnalyticsNot connectedOrganic sessions, engagement, landing pages, conversions, geography, and devices

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Limits and method

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Limitations and open questions

Known constraints and missing evidence from the collected pages.

The collected pages do not mention any competitors by name. Evidence gaps include lack of customer testimonials, detailed feature documentation, and API documentation. Open questions include the exact review limits for paid plans and the specifics of the self-hosting option.

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Sources, method, and limitations

Evidence inventory, collection method, provider use, and constraints.

This report is based on 15 collected pages from sourcery.ai, including the homepage, pricing page, and security vulnerability database pages. The evidence catalog includes 180 entries, but many are code snippets from vulnerability examples. The external proof search was performed but did not yield additional verified customer or review data. Limitations include the absence of first-party customer testimonials and detailed product documentation.

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