Side-by-side
- Operating model
ShipStream
Prescriptive — every actionable intervention (Reassign, Smart Split, Smart Ping, Re-request) closes a loop on the queue, not just comments on the diff.
Graphite
Bundled CI + PR review platform — a single seat-priced subscription that bundles stack tracking, merge queue, and review tooling into one plan.
- Pricing model
ShipStream
$7.20 per actionable intervention. You pay for what actually moves the queue — the interventions that ship, not the org chart.
Graphite
$X per seat / month. Pricing scales with the number of GitHub admin users, regardless of how many of them actually review.
- What you get for $X
ShipStream
$7.20 buys a single prescribed action with reviewer routing, slack nudge, or split — every wedge action ships on every plan, including the free tier.
Graphite
$X buys one seat in a stacked bundled plan — CI observability + PR review + merge queue are bundled together, with the higher tiers unlocking the close-the-loop automation.
- Cost surface per real intervention
ShipStream
$7.20 per actionable intervention aligns cost with the work that actually moved the PR — one-shot, predictable, and tied to the queue instead of headcount.
Graphite
$X per seat regardless of whether the reviewer reviewed once or fifty times this month — you pay the seat price even when the reviewer never opened the PR.
- Built-for-scale
ShipStream
Pricing grows with the queue you actually carry — each new bottleneck pays for itself one intervention at a time.
Graphite
Pricing grows with the org chart regardless of reviewer load — every new admin user adds another $X per seat to the bill.
- Free tier
ShipStream
Free tier ships the same four wedge actions (Reassign, Smart Split, Smart Ping, Re-request) so the ROI loop is intact before any paid commitment.
Graphite
Free tier is limited to PR review basics; the per-finding ROI loop (the bundled automation that closes queues) sits behind paid Graphite tiers.
Graphite bundles everything behind a single $X per seat / month subscription — CI, merge queue, PR review, and the close-the-loop automation ShipStream prices one intervention at a time.
ShipStream's $7.20 per actionable intervention buys one of four wedge actions as a discrete outcome: a Reassign that lands the PR on a better-suited reviewer, a Smart Split that shrinks an oversized diff, a Smart Ping that nudges the right channel, or a Re-request that restarts a dormant review. Every $7.20 matches a real intervention that moved the queue.
Graphite has no equivalent per-finding ROI loop. Its bundled plan charges by seat regardless of what actually moves the queue — so reviewers who never review still pay their $X per seat.
Graphite has no equivalent per-finding ROI loop — its bundled plan charges by seat regardless of what actually moves the queue.