Agentic Index
Baz vs cubic (2026)
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Both review every pull request with whole codebase context, and Baz reaches further on either side of the review. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Cubic reviews each pull request against the whole codebase, catches bugs, enforces rules written in plain English and runs background scans that find and fix issues, free for 20 reviews a month and unlimited on public repositories, with Team at $30 per developer billed annually. Baz covers the lifecycle with a benchmark leading review agent, specification validation and a pre code plan gateway. Cubic is the cheaper way to start, and plain English rules are its best idea, because a rule your team can read is a rule your team will maintain.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, Baz clears the bar and cubic does not. Baz documents all five merge loop capabilities in full; cubic does not document observability and auditability in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 3 of the 96 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Baz and cubic are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Baz if
- You want the built app driven in a browser and checked against its Figma and Jira specification.
- Governing agent written code across the lifecycle is what you are buying.
- The pre code plan gateway is capability nothing else in this cluster has.
Choose cubic if
- Free for twenty reviews a month and free for public repositories removes the decision.
- Rules written in plain English is how your team will actually keep standards current.
- Background scans that find and fix without waiting for a pull request suit your workflow.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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BazIntegrations & Tool Calling Integrations cover GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps for source control; Jira, Linear, Monday, Shortcut, Azure DevOps Boards, YouTrack and Fibery for tickets; Figma for design; Notion and Google Docs for knowledge; Datadog and Sentry for the SRE agent; Slack for chat; and preview environments and a sandbox for running the app. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/basics/integrationsread 2026-09-29 |
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cubicIntegrations & Tool Calling A two way GitHub app drives inline comments, fix branches and approvals, project connectors cover Jira, Linear, Asana and Notion with Confluence on Pro, Slack and email notifications ship on Pro, PostHog (5 Oct), Sentry (8 Oct) and Datadog (11 Oct 2026) connect as production evidence so scan agents can confirm findings against real errors and logs, and cubic runs inside coding agent hosts through its MCP server and CLI. Sourcecubic.dev/pricing-plans and docs.cubic.dev/changelogread 2026-10-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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BazWorkflow Orchestration Multiple agents divide the work on a change: SDLC agents (Fixer, Merger, SRE, Skill Maintainer) run independently in sandboxed environments alongside a set of individually scoped review agents, Merger decides after CI passes whether a pull request is safe to merge, and Planner produces an implementation plan that goes through approval before code is written. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelog 2026-07-01read 2026-09-29 |
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cubicWorkflow Orchestration Codebase scans are documented as thousands of parallel agents working through a staged process that maps the codebase, runs parallel checks, investigates, deduplicates and scores findings, and Ultrareview is a documented multi pass analysis. The scan docs still label scans beta and available by request, while the pricing page lists them on Pro. Reviews run a fixed sequence of review, inline comments, fix branches and optional approval, and heavier implementation can be handed to an outside coding agent. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/codebase-scan/codebase-scans and cubic.dev/pricing-plansread 2026-10-25 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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BazTriggers & Channel Coverage Reviews run automatically when pull requests open across GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps, Merger runs after CI passes, and Skills Maintainer can scan on a schedule every three days, weekly or every two weeks. Comment commands, the CLI and the MCP server add runs on demand. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-08-10 and docs/agents/baz-agentsread 2026-09-29 |
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cubicTriggers & Channel Coverage Reviews run automatically when a pull request opens and again on new commits, codebase scans run nightly on Pro, and the AI wiki regenerates on a weekly or monthly schedule, so work reaches the agent without a person starting it. @cubic mentions, Fix with cubic and the CLI add requested runs. Sourcecubic.dev/pricing-plans and docs.cubic.dev/wiki/ai-wikiread 2026-09-29 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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BazKnowledge Grounding & RAG Reviewers ground on the organization's repositories through API endpoints for file search, text grep and cross repository architecture search. They also take product intent from ticketing, Figma, Notion and Google Docs integrations, and the Spec Reviewer checks the code against it. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/api-keys, docs/basics/integrations and docs/agents/baz-agents; baz.ai/docs/basics/integrationsread 2026-10-25 |
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cubicKnowledge Grounding & RAG The AI wiki automatically indexes the codebase into searchable documentation with source links and architecture diagrams, regenerated monthly on Team and on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule on Pro and Max as code changes. It can be queried in plain English, over MCP or as synced markdown, alongside whole repository and cross repository context during reviews. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/wiki/ai-wiki 2026-09-29 and cubic.dev/pricing-plansread 2026-10-25 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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BazMemory & State Persistence Reviewer Memory stores a memory in a reviewer's own memory bank when similar feedback is given more than once, and updates that reviewer's prompt. Each memory can be switched on or off and shows its sources. An organization setting can hold new memories for admin approval before they go live, and admins control who may contribute. No lifetime, expiry or delete path is stated, so a disabled memory stays in the bank. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/working-with-agentsread 2026-10-25 |
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cubicMemory & State Persistence cubic extracts learnings from PR comments, reactions and senior reviewers' past reviews, scoped to the team and never shared across organizations or repositories. Learnings are browsable, editable and deletable under Memory and Learning, and a weekly cleanup merges duplicates and archives outdated guidance. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/ai-review/memory-and-learningread 2026-09-29 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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BazHuman Oversight & Guardrails Plans generated by Planner go through a dedicated approval workflow before implementation starts, and teammates can review plans together and track revisions, so a person approves before the agent's plan is built. Merger returns a merge, reject or escalate verdict after CI passes and labels the pull request; it approves only when a rule turns on auto approve, and merges only when configured to act autonomously, otherwise the verdict is left for a human reviewer to act on. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelog 2026-07-01 and 2026-09-24read 2026-10-28 |
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cubicHuman Oversight & Guardrails Auto approval runs under a per repository policy the customer sets (low risk only, custom or always), and cubic approves only when its review finds no issues. No person approves anything before cubic acts, so the policy constrains the agent and is not an approval step. Shadow mode, which previews approvals before they go live, is covered under testing. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/ai-review/auto-approvalread 2026-09-29 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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BazSecurity, Identity & Governance Baz states that it is SOC 2 certified, Enterprise adds SSO, centralized controls and VPC deployment, and API keys are limited to a whitelist of endpoints under the creator's permissions. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/security-privacy-and-compliance, baz.ai/pricing and docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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cubicSecurity, Identity & Governance Compliance is SOC 2 Type 1, with TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, AES-256 at rest, subprocessor agreements that prohibit training on customer code, and a trust center at trust.cubic.dev listing subprocessors. Enterprise adds SSO and SAML through GitHub OAuth, GitHub Enterprise support, exportable compliance audits and custom MSA and DPA terms. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/account/privacy-security and cubic.dev/pricing-plansread 2026-10-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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BazObservability & Auditability Session Logs let a team inspect how each run was triggered, where it executed, its status, the major stages it completed, its outcome and its cost, and the API records MCP session events. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-06-01 and docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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cubicObservability & Auditability The Analytics API returns per pull request metrics (issues flagged and fixed, AI authored lines, engagement times), the Analytics AI review tab rebuilt on 6 Oct 2026 shows what happens to each issue cubic raises, Pro tracks AI coding usage, and Enterprise exports compliance audits. These report outcomes, and there is no stated per run record of the review agent's steps or tool calls. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/analytics/api, docs.cubic.dev/changelog and cubic.dev/pricing-plansread 2026-10-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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BazDeployment & Data Residency Private Mode, on Pro and Enterprise, keeps source code stored only in the customer's own VPC through a file system service pod on AWS EKS, with analysis on Baz infrastructure reading it transiently. Enterprise adds self hosted deployment in the customer's own cloud, and private application review can run the sandbox inside the customer's Kubernetes as a limited preview. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/private-mode and baz.ai/pricingread 2026-10-25 |
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cubicDeployment & Data Residency cubic is hosted SaaS installed as a GitHub app, and code is never stored or used for training. There is no stated self hosting, customer cloud or region choice. Sourcecubic.dev/pricing-plans, cubic.dev/enterprise and docs privacy-securityread 2026-09-29 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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BazPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Baz ships named built in agents with their own jobs, among them Fixer, Spec Reviewer and an AI SRE agent. Five core review agents (Code Correctness, Code Quality, Basic Security Patterns, Advanced Security and AI Coding Guidelines) replaced eleven narrower reviewers in October 2026, and teams can build customized agents on top. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelogread 2026-10-25 |
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cubicPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Teams turn on prebuilt review agents from cubic's agents library, which lists 63 agents, and adopt community and suggested agents with one click. Since 9 October the library runs on all repositories by default. Teams also write their own custom agents in natural language, five on Team and ten on Pro. Sourcecubic.dev/agents and docs.cubic.dev/ai-review/custom-agentsread 2026-10-25 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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BazModel Flexibility & Routing Baz's agentic reviewers run on OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex with Anthropic Sonnet 4.5 reflections, and Baz chooses the models, with no customer model selection, bring your own key or local model option offered. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2025-10-16read 2026-09-29 |
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cubicModel Flexibility & Routing Hosted pull request reviews run on models cubic chooses from OpenAI and Anthropic, so more than one provider is disclosed but the customer does not pick for the reviewer that acts on pull requests. Enterprise offers bring your own API keys without a model or provider selection. The cubic CLI alone lets a developer connect a ChatGPT or Claude Code subscription and switch providers and models for local reviews (changelog 19 Apr 2026), a picker that does not reach the hosted reviewer. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/account/privacy-security, cubic.dev/pricing-plans and docs.cubic.dev/changelogread 2026-10-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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BazAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility API keys call the Baz REST API (v2, under /api/v2/ with an x-api-key header) and the Baz MCP server for scripts, CI and unattended agents, with twelve endpoints covering reviewer configuration, review discussions, repository search, plan creation and versioning, plan comments and linking pull requests to plans. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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cubicAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility cubic's own MCP server at cubic.dev/api/mcp, signed in with OAuth or an API key, offers 20 tools plus three environment tools, including get_pr_issues, trigger_pr_review, update_pr_issue_status, list_wikis, list_scans and get_scan. Several of them start reviews or change finding status, so outside agents can act through cubic, not only read from it. On Pro, an Analytics API adds a bearer token endpoint, and since 2 October organization API keys and a Members API are available. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/ide/mcp-server and changelog 2026-10-25, analytics/apiread 2026-09-29 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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BazTesting, Debugging & Optimization Prompt Playground lets a team test a review agent's behavior on real change requests before rollout and tune its tone, scope and strictness without pushing untested agents to production, and Evaluations report reviewer performance with usage metrics and comment tracking. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2025-05-22 and 2025-07-29read 2026-09-29 |
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cubicTesting, Debugging & Optimization Shadow mode keeps cubic in comment only mode on real pull requests while adding a summary of whether it would have approved each one, so a team tests the agent's approval behavior under its chosen policy before granting it live authority. Bug detection, the product itself, tests the customer's code and not the agent. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev/ai-review/auto-approvalread 2026-09-29 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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BazBrowser & Computer Use Spec Reviewer clones the repository, restores dependencies, runs the setup and start commands, waits for the application to become healthy and opens it in a browser to check the built experience against the specification. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-07-29read 2026-09-29 |
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cubicBrowser & Computer Use cubic works through the GitHub API, an isolated review container, a CLI and MCP, with no stated browser control or operation of software through a graphical interface. Sourcedocs.cubic.dev and cubic.dev/pricing-plansread 2026-09-29 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Pro from $30 per active developer per month, plus Engineering Work Credits at $0.01 each for advanced agents. Enterprise is priced on contact. | Free plan. Team at $30 per developer per month billed annually, or $40 monthly. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Per active developer per month for access and standard review, plus Engineering Work Credits at $0.01 each for advanced agent sessions. | Subscription tiers priced per developer per month, each with a monthly allowance of reviewed lines (the added and deleted diff lines cubic reads). The free tier is capped by monthly review count, and Enterprise is custom. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Self-serve |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Baz
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· Agent capability
A dedicated agent security reviewer in Baz now runs on code changes that touch agent code, such as agent configuration, model SDK usage, direct provider calls, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP servers and CI workflows.
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· Human approval / guardrails
Baz Planner adds shared review of implementation plans published from coding agents, with comments on passages or the entire plan that survive revisions.
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· Security / enterprise
Baz added the SAST-inside feature to its Advanced Security agent.
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cubic
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· Agent capability
Codebase scan agents in cubic can now check whether production data confirms the bugs and vulnerabilities they find, starting with PostHog, which is switched on per repository under Production evidence.
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· Human approval / guardrails
cubic added a repository policy that allows automatic pull request approval while findings at selected priorities remain unresolved.
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· Agent capability
cubic now supports cross-repo reviews, allowing users to link up to five related repositories for coordinated updates.
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