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Published on 16.03.2026
TLDR: Running frontier AI code review (Claude Opus 4.6) on real PRs costs between $0.73–$1.34 per review. Budget models like Kimi K2.5 drop that to $0.05–$0.07. The tradeoff is real: cheaper models miss deeper issues that require reading beyond the diff.
We analyzed how much Kilo Code Reviewer costs on real-life coding tasks