So I just saw that bugbot is moving to usage-based pricing (a bummer but understandable) and I was trying to find a rate-card for it, but I couldn’t find it.
The documentation just mentions Bugbot | Cursor Docs
“Bugbot first consumes your included usage, then bills additional reviews through on-demand spend. See the pricing page for current rates.”
But there is no information about bugbot in the pricing page. The estimation that prices would be around $1-1.5 per PR is not specific about whether it remains flat per pr regardless of how many reviews on the same PR (which I doubt it to be) or for every review on a PR is that the rate (in which case that’s freaking expensive lol)
Would like some clarity on how bugbot is actually priced now.
Also on a related note, I don’t see the effort level options either even though I have already switched to usage-based pricing nor do I see any prorated credits for switching.
A few things are going on here; let me address each one.
Rate card/pricing
The pricing page lists Bugbot as included with Pro, Pro+, and Ultra plans on usage-based billing, but doesn’t break down per-review costs. The Bugbot docs have more detail on how billing works: reviews first consume your included usage, then bill through on-demand spend. The blog post about the May 2026 changes mentions an average of $1.00–$1.50 per review, though the actual cost varies with review complexity.
Effort level settings
These aren’t available to all usage-based Bugbot users yet. The docs describe the intended behavior, but the feature is still being rolled out. You should see the effort options appear in your dashboard as availability expands.
Prorated credits
If you switched to usage-based billing and haven’t received the expected credit, please email [email protected] with your account details so the billing team can look into it.
@Pierre-Michel_Brown — the $40/user/mo on your dashboard is your current seat-based Bugbot Pro plan. The email about usage-based pricing describes the billing model you’ll transition to. Until that transition happens on your account, the dashboard correctly shows your current plan. You can opt in to usage-based billing from the Bugbot section of your dashboard, or your account will transition automatically on June 8.
my question was is the $1-1.5 price per review not per PR? so that means if a PR has multiple commits after its opened due to bugbot comments or other human comments and bugbot runs after every new commit to the PR, we would be paying $1 for every such review? Isn’t that like diabolically more expensive than what it would take for a normal CI pipeline setup with cursor cli? Please correct me if I am wrong on my understanding. It would help if you can add more details in the documentation around predictable pricing like for agents we know its based on tokens, and I assume bugbot is also based on tokens internally, but what is the pricing of the model used internally per million tokens in the PR as input?
Quick correction on the effort levels — after looking into this further, effort level controls (Default / High / Custom) are a Team plan feature, not something rolling out to individual plans. On individual Pro/Ultra, BugBot runs at the standard effort level by default. Apologies for the confusion in my earlier reply.
On pricing — yes, the $1.00–$1.50 cost is per BugBot run, not per PR. By default, BugBot runs on every commit push to an open PR, so a PR with multiple pushes would trigger multiple reviews. You can limit this with the “Run only once per PR” setting in your BugBot config. I agree the docs should be clearer here, and I’ve noted the feedback.
. Hoping for documentation updates in the future.