Propel vs Bugbot

Propel leads on precision and recall in the externally authored benchmark while Cursor BugBot pairs code generation and review tightly together.

Precision + recall leaderExternally authored benchmarkCursor BugBot comparison

Propel Leads on Benchmarks

More coverage. Less noise.

When tested on externally authored opensource benchmarks, Propel caught 48% more real issues while generating fewer false positives.

That means cleaner pull requests and more bugs caught before merge.

Precision vs recall scatter plot comparing Propel and Cursor BugBot

Why teams choose Propel

Propel catches more than just bugs

Propel surfaces issues that materially impact production quality, not just correctness.

  • Bugs and security issues
  • Performance regressions
  • Architectural concerns
  • Code duplication and maintainability issues

This leads to fewer regressions and higher quality pull requests over time.

Comparison Summary

Plan Overview

Propel

$30 per dev per month

  • Benchmark-backed performance shown above
  • Code review independent of all code generation agents
  • Code review that goes beyond bugs to include performance suggestions, architectural concerns, etc.
  • Extensive configurations on a company, team, repo, and developer level

Plan Overview

Cursor BugBot

$40 per dev per month

  • Code review tightly coupled with code generation
  • Bug-focused review

Ship faster. Ship better. Ship with Propel.

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