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Code Review Graph vs Elva: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Code Review Graph and Elva — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

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Code Review Graph

tirth8205

Free

Code Review Graph is a local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI that cuts AI coding tool context by mapping only what matters.

Key features

  • Persistent Repo Graph: Builds and maintains a graph of the codebase's symbols, references, and structure so lookups are instant on subsequent runs.
  • MCP Server Integration: Exposes the graph as an MCP server so Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible agents can query it directly.
  • CLI Access: A first-class command-line interface lets developers query the graph without an agent in the loop.
  • Task-Scoped Context Slices: Instead of loading whole files, returns only the pieces of code an AI tool needs — with benchmarked context reductions.
  • Local-First Privacy: All indexing and serving runs on the developer's machine, so source code never leaves the environment.
  • PyPI Distribution: Installs with a single `pip install code-review-graph` and works on any Python 3.10+ setup.

Best for

  • Cheaper AI Code Reviews: Feed only the relevant slices of a change to a review agent so token spend on large PRs stays low.
  • Large Monorepo Workflows: Give coding agents targeted context in repos too big to fit into any model's window.
  • MCP-Compatible Agent Enhancement: Plug into Claude Code or Cursor as an MCP server to add repo-aware retrieval.
  • Local Refactor Planning: Use the CLI to explore dependencies and impact before making cross-cutting changes.
  • Air-Gapped Codebases: Keep proprietary source local while still using AI tools that consume the graph rather than raw files.
  • Onboarding Assistance: Help new engineers navigate a large codebase by querying the graph for related symbols and callers.
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Elva

Theneo

Freemium

Reads your repositories to discover every API, scores and governs them, then exposes them to developers and AI agents via hosted MCP servers.

Key features

  • Spec-Free API Discovery: Elva scans repository code directly to find endpoints and generates OpenAPI 3.1 as output, so no existing spec is needed to start.
  • Endpoint Scoring: Every collection is graded on design, developer experience, AI readiness, security and performance, with the weakest collection surfaced first.
  • AI Fix Pass: A one-click agent writes missing descriptions from code, types response schemas and documents auth, then rescores the collection.
  • API Contracts: Per-audience contracts pin the exact endpoints and fields a partner, internal team, public developer or MCP client receives, excluding PII and internal fields.
  • Breaking Change Enforcement: Each commit is diffed against published contracts, showing the schema diff, affected consumers and tools, and blocking publish by policy.
  • Hosted MCP Servers: Contracts generate MCP servers hosted behind Elva's gateway with OAuth2, scoped keys, per-tool authorization and exportable call logs.
  • MCP Playground and Agent Feedback: Test the server with a live model, then read the complaints agents file about confusing or failing tools, scored back into the catalog.
  • Multi-Target Publishing: One approved contract ships as OpenAPI spec, Theneo docs, MCP server, Postman collection and a typed TypeScript SDK in sync.

Best for

  • API Inventory Audit: Discover undocumented or forgotten endpoints across a large codebase and get a ranked list of what to fix first.
  • Agent Enablement: Expose an internal service to Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT as a governed MCP server instead of hand-writing tool wrappers.
  • Partner Integration Safety: Publish a restricted contract to an external partner and have Elva block commits that would break their integration.
  • PII Scoping: Keep customer emails and internal ops annotations out of a public or agent-facing surface while the same endpoints serve them internally.
  • Zombie Endpoint Retirement: Prove no active consumer references an endpoint before deleting it, using contract and call-log evidence.
  • Enterprise Security Review: Satisfy SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR questions and wire agent access into an existing SSO and SCIM identity provider.
  • Documentation Drift Control: Keep docs, SDKs and Postman collections regenerated from code on every merge instead of maintained by hand.
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