CodeRabbit offers two distinct features that serve different roles in your development workflow:

**Role**: Developer, QA, and Code Reviewer

**Access Level**: Full code access with comprehensive analysis capabilities

**Key Features:**

- **Complete Toolchain**: Runs all available analysis tools on your codebase

- **Static Analysis**: Can execute shell commands and perform deep static analysis against your codebase

- **Direct Code Access**: Has full access to code in issues and pull requests

- **Interactive Chat**: Provides chat features for real-time collaboration and questions

- **Comprehensive Review**: Analyzes code quality, security, performance, and best practices

- **Actionable Feedback**: Provides specific, line-by-line suggestions and improvements

- **Comment Interaction**: Engages with users through comments in pull requests and issues for clarifications and discussions

- **Available in All Tiers**: All features are available across Free, Lite, and Pro plans

**Role**: Project Manager and Communication Hub

**Access Level**: Summary-only access without direct code interaction

**Key Features:**

- **Summary Generation**: Creates convenient, formatted summaries of all your recent pull requests

- **Customizable Prompts**: Allows you to select or create your own summarization templates

- **High-Level Overview**: Focuses on project progress and changes without code details

- **Comment Analysis**: Reads and summarizes existing comments and discussions

- **No Code Access**: Operates only on summaries and metadata, not the actual codebase

- **Communication Tool**: Designed for stakeholders who need updates without technical details

- **Multi-Channel Delivery**: Sends reports through various communication channels:

- Email notifications

- Slack integration

- Discord webhooks

- Microsoft Teams updates

- **Pro Plan Exclusive**: Reports feature is available only in the Pro plan tier

**In Summary:**

- **Code Reviews** = Technical analysis with full code access for developers

- **Reports** = High-level summaries with no code access for project management