Ellipsis
GitHub-only AI reviewer built to keep false positives low
Overview
A YC-backed GitHub App that reviews every pull request, writes PR summaries, answers questions in comments, and proposes fix code, tuned with a filtering pipeline to cut review noise. GitHub only.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 13 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Reviews on every PR
- PR summaries
- Q&A
- Reviews on every commit
- Unlimited codegen
- Style-guide enforcement
- SOC 2
- Private AWS VPC
- Priority support
What you can produce with Ellipsis
- Automated AI review on every pull request
- Multistage filtering pipeline to reduce false positives
- Natural-language style guide enforcement
- AI-generated fix code and small in-PR edits
- PR summaries and Q&A in comments
- Free for public repositories
- SOC 2 certified; code cleared from private AWS VPC after each task
ASEAN Perspective
Ellipsis in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Ellipsis does one job: it lives in GitHub and reviews pull requests, flagging likely bugs, security issues, and style-guide violations you write in plain English, then offers fix code and can make small edits from PR comments. The standout claim, backed by its own data, is a multistage filtering pipeline aimed squarely at the biggest gripe about AI reviewers, false positives.
Credibility markers are decent for a 2024 startup: YC W24, $2M seed, SOC 2, and installs in more than 67,000 GitHub repos, with free use on public repos that makes it easy for open-source maintainers. The hard limit is platform lock-in, GitHub only, no GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps as of 2026, and it competes directly with CodeRabbit and Greptile on narrow ground. Treat it as an always-on first-pass gate, not a replacement for human review. A clean, low-friction pick for GitHub-native teams.
What people say
Founded in 2024 by Nicholas Moy and James Murdza out of Y Combinator's W24 batch on $2M in seed funding, Ellipsis has grown into a GitHub App installed across more than 67,000 repositories. Its scope is deliberately narrow: automate the first pass of code review so humans see cleaner PRs. Reviews on WeavAI, SourceForge, Product Hunt, and DECODE consistently frame it as a reviewer, not a writer, the counterpart to Copilot rather than a competitor.
The headline metric in its own materials is a 13% average acceleration in merge speed. The feature reviewers care about most, though, is the multistage Filtering Pipeline. Because false positives are the number-one complaint about AI reviewers generally, Ellipsis leans on this pipeline to keep noise down, and independent write-ups give it a comparatively low false-positive reputation, one directory scores it 8.3 out of 10 and recommends it specifically for teams that value that.
What users like: reliable detection of logic errors, PR summaries, natural-language style guides that get enforced automatically, and roughly 10-minute onboarding. Open-source maintainers highlight that public repos are free, so community contributions get reviewed without cost. Q&A on PRs and the ability to make small edits in response to comments come up as time-savers.
The consistent caveats are structural rather than quality complaints. As of 2026 Ellipsis supports only GitHub, ruling out GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps shops entirely. It holds SOC 2 certification and clears code from its private AWS VPC after each task, which enterprise reviewers note approvingly, though some coverage lists it at Type I rather than Type II. And like every AI reviewer, it produces occasional misses and noise, so reviewers advise treating it as a gate rather than the final word.
Pricing is simple: free for public repositories, then $20 per developer per month for private repos on the Developer plan, which includes reviews on every commit, PR summaries, unlimited codegen, and Q&A. That low barrier, paired with the false-positive focus, is why coverage repeatedly calls it a serious option for GitHub-based teams with a real review burden. No ASEAN-specific provisions; usable globally.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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