Review Board review

Review Board is a review server: teams deploy it on-prem or air-gapped, or use hosted RBCommons SaaS. Installers and Docker containers are available for self-managed installations. It sits alongside source control and project collaboration tools, rather than replacing them. Developers submit code changes for comment and approval; teams can also review documents, designs and images in the same workflow.

Reviews include discussions, issues that can be opened and resolved, approval states and a dashboard for incoming and outgoing requests. Image review supports split, color, onion-skin and side-by-side diffs. The product also tracks document changes across revisions. On the homepage, Review Board describes integrations with version-control systems, CI services, authentication providers and collaboration tools. That positions it as a shared review layer across engineering and content work, with hosting choice as a deployment decision. The homepage does not present it as a library or hosted API.

The homepage highlights a command-line workflow through rbt: rbt post HEAD uploads commits and creates a review request, while rbt land --push my-feature lands a branch and pushes it upstream. It also shows a .reviewboardrc configuration file and commands for checking review status and creating aliases. This gives teams a CLI integration surface for review workflows.

The homepage lists integrations with Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion, ClearCase, Azure DevOps Server / TFVC and Jujutsu, as well as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and other hosting services. CI integrations include CircleCI, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Travis CI. Collaboration options include Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Matrix and others; authentication options include Auth0, Microsoft Entra ID and single sign-on. The homepage does not describe an API style or name SDK languages. Confirm API and SDK support in the vendor's documentation before building a custom integration. The homepage links to further integration details.

The pricing page lists Community (On-prem) at $0 per month. Its seat limit and usage limits are not published, so confirm capacity and support terms before treating it as a production option. Plus (On-prem) costs $15 per user/month, or $12 per user/month when billed annually. Enterprise (On-prem) costs $18 per user/month, or $15 per user/month annually. Both paid on-prem plans are priced per user.

RBCommons SaaS Basic costs $6 per user/month and includes two integrations; Business costs $12 per user/month and includes 50 integrations. Both hosted plans list a 30-day free trial. Annual billing for RBCommons is not published. The listed starting price is $6 per user/month, while the free on-prem plan has no stated seat or usage ceiling. The pricing material lists no add-ons, overage rates, request charges or compute-based billing. The bill therefore scales by seats on paid plans, but confirm how the vendor counts users and what happens at any plan limit.

Review Board supports self-hosting, including on-prem and air-gapped installs, and the homepage says installers and Docker containers are available. That gives organizations control over where the review service runs, instead of requiring RBCommons SaaS. The homepage does not publish the software licence or explain source availability, so confirm both with the vendor before building internal tooling around the server or redistributing it.

The homepage also does not describe a data-export format, a complete backup procedure or a migration path from hosted to self-managed deployment. Before adoption, ask how to export repositories, reviews, comments, attachments, users and configuration, and whether those exports can be imported elsewhere. Version-control integrations may reduce dependence on a particular repository host, but review history and workflow data can still create migration work. Treat export and restore procedures as procurement questions, not assumed capabilities.

Review Board's on-prem and air-gapped options can fit environments that cannot send review content to a multi-tenant hosted service. The homepage also offers managed infrastructure, but gives no security or compliance details there. Confirm the controls relevant to your deployment, including authentication configuration, access boundaries, backups, updates and incident handling.

The pricing material does not publish seat or usage limits for the on-prem plans, and it gives no hosted capacity, rate-limit or overage figures. Ask the vendor about maximum users, repository and attachment sizes, retention, service availability and support response times before relying on it for a high-volume review queue. The homepage lists installers and Docker containers, but operational responsibility for a self-managed deployment still needs to be assigned. For hosted use, verify data export and recovery procedures. The review dashboard and issue states support team workflows, but production readiness depends on limits and operational terms that are not listed in the pricing material.