Compare
Postil vs Greptile
Greptile's cross-file reasoning is genuinely strong. Postil is a Greptile alternative for teams who hit the limits of its commercial model and merge contract: per-review overage pricing scales sharply at agent-team volume, and findings ship as comments rather than a separable, enforceable gate.
| Capability | Postil | Greptile |
|---|---|---|
| Hard merge gate (separate blocking check) |  Yes. postil/gate, fail-closed |  No. comments only |
| Published silence / quiet-rate metric | Yes. headline dashboard number | no |
| Pricing | Per active private-PR author; 30-day hosted trial | ~$30/seat + ~$1 per review past 50 |
| Cost at high PR volume | Hosted or BYOK provider controls | No. scales with review count |
| Self-host without enterprise sales | Yes. free, Docker Compose | no |
| Platforms | GitHub App: GitHub. CLI/CI: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket + Azure DevOps on a best-effort CI gate | GitHub, GitLab |
Hard merge gate (separate blocking check)
- Postil
- Yes. postil/gate, fail-closed
- Greptile
- No. comments only
Published silence / quiet-rate metric
- Postil
- Yes. headline dashboard number
- Greptile
- no
Pricing
- Postil
- Per active private-PR author; 30-day hosted trial
- Greptile
- ~$30/seat + ~$1 per review past 50
Cost at high PR volume
- Postil
- Hosted or BYOK provider controls
- Greptile
- No. scales with review count
Self-host without enterprise sales
- Postil
- Yes. free, Docker Compose
- Greptile
- no
Platforms
- Postil
- GitHub App: GitHub. CLI/CI: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket + Azure DevOps on a best-effort CI gate
- Greptile
- GitHub, GitLab
Sources: vendor pricing and documentation.
Per-review pricing breaks at agent speed
Greptile's March 2026 move to $30/seat plus $1 per review past 50 produced a public backlash. A developer pushing several hundred agent-driven PRs in a month can owe hundreds of dollars. Postil prices private plans by active author. BYOK provider usage is billed directly. Hosted starts with a 30-day trial. See the pricing details.
A gate that can block a merge
Greptile posts findings as PR comments. Postil completes postil/gate as a real, separable check you can require in branch protection, distinct from advisory postil/review commentary. On operational errors the gate fails closed by default rather than completing neutral; repos can opt into gate.onError: advisory, which fails open on provider outages only.
Restraint is measured
Greptile's own v4 release notes show comments-addressed rising from 30% to 43% between versions, evidence that defaults trend noisy. Postil reports its silence rate and the confidence distribution of shipped findings as the headline metrics, so drift toward noise is visible in a chart before engineers feel it in notifications.
Where Greptile is ahead
Greptile's cross-file recall on large codebases is a real strength, and it has a longer track record on deep repository context. Postil optimizes the precision of what it says over breadth of recall.
Pay for active private-PR authors.
Install the App for a hosted trial, connect BYOK, or try the CLI on your next diff.