MergeWatch SaaS charges per pull request reviewed. There are no per-seat fees — ever. Your entire team uses MergeWatch under a single billing account tied to your GitHub organization or user account.
Free tier
Every account gets 20 free PR reviews per month. No credit card is required to start. The free tier resets on the first of each calendar month (UTC).
Pricing tiers
Pricing is volume-based. The more PRs you review in a billing month, the lower your per-PR cost:
| Monthly volume | Price per PR |
|---|
| 1 – 20 | Free |
| 21 – 500 | $0.35 |
| 501 – 2,000 | $0.25 |
| 2,001+ | $0.18 |
Tiers are cumulative within a billing month. If you review 600 PRs, the first 20 are free, PRs 21–500 are billed at 0.35each,andPRs501–600arebilledat0.25 each. No per-seat fees
MergeWatch does not charge per user, per seat, or per repository. A single billing account covers everyone in your GitHub organization. Add as many developers and repos as you want — pricing is based solely on the number of PR reviews.
What counts as a PR
A billable PR is any pull request that triggers a MergeWatch review. Specifically:
- Each
pull_request event (opened, synchronize) that results in a completed review counts as one PR.
- If a PR is skipped because of a skip rule in your
.mergewatch.yml (e.g., draft PRs, specific file paths, or label-based exclusions), it does not count toward your usage.
- Multiple pushes to the same PR each count as a separate review, since MergeWatch re-analyzes the updated diff each time.
Spend cap
You can set an optional hard monthly spend cap in the MergeWatch dashboard under Settings > Billing. When your spend reaches the cap:
- MergeWatch stops reviewing new PRs for the remainder of the billing month.
- Existing reviews and comments remain on your PRs.
- You receive an email notification when you reach 80% and 100% of your cap.
Once the spend cap is hit, no new reviews will be posted until the next billing month or until you raise the cap. Make sure your cap accommodates your expected PR volume.
Self-hosted is always free
If you self-host MergeWatch, there is no MergeWatch fee. You pay only your LLM provider (Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, Ollama, or any provider supported via LiteLLM). See Self-Hosting Overview for details.
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