Ship fast.
Don't break production.
Early-stage engineering teams have two failure modes: review every PR by hand and slow to a crawl, or skip review and watch the production incidents pile up. LGTM is the third path — six specialist AI agents review every PR automatically, plus 36 CI/CD security detectors across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and Azure Pipelines stop the bad merges before they land. One flat fee, your whole team.
The startup engineering squeeze
Three engineers. Twenty PRs a week. One needs-must-ship deadline. Code review becomes the bottleneck — or, more commonly, the thing that gets cut.
Review is the bottleneck
Founder-engineer or senior dev becomes the review-all-PRs human. They burn out, or they rubber-stamp. Either way, quality drops while shipping slows.
Incidents start landing
The race condition that's obvious to a fresh reader hides from the dev who wrote it three hours ago. Production goes down at 7 p.m. Friday. Whole team scrambles.
Security is 'we'll get to it'
Self-hosted runner on public repo. Secrets echoed in CI. S3 buckets going public from Terraform. None of it gets caught by the rushed human review.
Tooling cost adds up
Snyk seats, CodeRabbit per-seat, Sentry, ProductHunt-recommended dev tools. Per-seat pricing kills startups doubly: as you grow the team, costs grow faster.
How LGTM changes the math
Pricing starts at ₹999/mo (Go) or ₹1,999/mo (Pro) for your whole team. No per-seat. Auto-review on every PR. Six specialists in parallel + thirty-six deterministic security checks across 4 CI systems. The engineer who would have been the review-all-PRs human gets their day back.
Auto-review on every PR (Pro)
opened / synchronize / reopened — the moment a PR exists, six agents start reviewing. The verdict + inline comments land in the PR thread before the human reviewer has even seen the diff. They focus on architecture and trade-offs; LGTM handles the everything-else.
Block bad merges automatically
LGTM Security writes a check_run with status: failure when any policy-flagged rule triggers. Branch protection refuses the merge. The supply-chain bugs that used to land in main get caught at PR time.
Reviewers stay on the human work
LGTM doesn't replace your reviewer — it does the boring layer. Stylistic nits, naming, hot-path queries, missing await, secrets in diffs — LGTM. Architecture, business logic, trade-offs — your human reviewer. Higher leverage on the limited senior-eng time you have.
Go ₹999/mo or Pro ₹1,999/mo. Your whole team, no per-seat.
Pro is per-account, not per-seat. One subscription covers all the engineers reviewing all the repos. Cancel anytime; no minimums.
3-person team
₹133/dev
per month
10-person team
₹40/dev
per month
25-person team
₹16/dev
per month
Why flat-rate, not per-seat? Per-seat pricing penalises you for hiring engineers — the exact thing a growing startup should be doing. We charge the same regardless of headcount, so growing the team doesn't grow our bill. On BYOK, your AI provider key (OpenAI or OpenRouter) bills you on usage — that scales with PR volume, not team size. On Managed AI, LGTM covers the LLM tokens and the flat plan fee is all you pay.
What Pro includes
Unlimited PR reviews
Every PR opened on a connected repo, automatically reviewed by six agents + synthesizer. No quota.
Auto-review fires on every event
pull_request opened / synchronize / reopened. The team never has to remember to trigger; review just appears.
Full LGTM Security
Enroll any number of repos. 36 detectors across 4 CI systems. Per-rule policy. Org policy with 4-role RBAC. Audit log. Runtime watchdog. Email alerts.
Per-repo model overrides
Pin GPT-4o on the high-stakes payments repo. Pin Claude Haiku on the marketing blog. Different repos, different tradeoffs.
Multi-repo from one account
One LGTM account covers all the repos your team reviews. Settings travel; AI keys travel; the team logs in via GitHub OAuth.
Direct email support
Go: 72h response. Pro: 24h response. Max: same-day. Enterprise: custom SLA. All from a real India-based team, not tier-one triage.
The honest cost math
LGTM is BYOK — you bring your own AI provider key. We don't mark up provider tokens. Your real monthly cost is ₹999 (Go) or ₹1,999 (Pro) plus your AI provider bill.
Typical startup monthly cost (10-person team, 80 PRs/month)
| Line | Cost |
|---|---|
| LGTM Pro (flat, your whole team) | ₹999 |
| OpenAI GPT-4o (80 PRs × ~₹8/PR) | ~₹640 |
| Or Claude Haiku (cheaper) | ~₹160 |
| Total range | ₹560 — ₹1,040 / month |
Per-engineer that's ~₹50-100/month. One incident prevented per quarter pays it back many times over. The cheapest variable here is the provider — start with Claude Haiku or gpt-5.4-mini, switch up if you need deeper reasoning on hard PRs. LGTM auto-routes the docs and readability agents to the same-provider mini/flash tier so you already get ~3.3× savings on those two agents by default.
Startup-team FAQ
How do we onboard a new engineer?
Do we get one shared AI provider key or per-engineer keys?
Can different repos run on different models?
How does LGTM not replace senior reviewers?
What if our PRs are huge?
Can we self-host?
What's the worst-case lock-in if we leave LGTM?
Ship fast. Stay safe. Pay ₹999.
Free 10 reviews/month to evaluate. Upgrade to Pro when auto-review on every PR matters. One subscription, whole team.