Baton vs Bito

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Baton

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A macOS menu bar app that tracks every Claude Code and Codex session on your machine and tells you which AI coding agent is waiting on you right now.

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Bito review 2026: AI Code Review Agent for GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket plus an IDE assistant — features, real pricing tiers, pros, cons, and fit.

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Feature	Baton	Bito
Category	developer-tools	Developer Tools
Pricing Plans	1 listed plan	4 listed plans
Starting Price	$0 (self-hosted)	$0
Key Features	• Menu bar count of AI agent sessions waiting on you, updated in under a second via FSEvents file watching • Unified view of Claude Code sessions and Codex threads, grouped by waiting, working, and done • Click-to-jump: raises the Claude session's Terminal.app tab or opens Codex threads via codex:// deep links	• Automated AI code review on every PR with inline comments • Chat-with-agent in PR comments to dispute, re-explain, or auto-fix • Coding-standards file lets teams tune what the reviewer enforces

✓Free, open source (MIT), no telemetry, nothing leaves the machine
✓Sub-second updates via FSEvents; negligible CPU/battery cost
✓Handles both Claude Code and Codex in one unified view
✓Click-to-jump saves the biggest actual cost of multi-agent work: finding the right window
✓One-line install with an isolated venv — clean uninstall too

✗macOS only; no Linux or Windows menu bar equivalent
✗Requires Python 3.9+ on the host (3.11+ for Codex automation tracking)
✗Only tracks Claude Code and Codex — other coding agents (Cursor, Cline, Aider) not supported
✗No push notifications to phone / other devices; menu bar only
✗Read-only by design — cannot send input back to sessions

✓Cheap per-developer way to add AI review coverage without buying every dev a full IDE-assistant seat
✓Configurable standards file means rules can encode the org's real preferences, not just generic best practices
✓Multi-platform (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) — useful for mixed-VCS shops

✗Like all AI reviewers, signal-to-noise can be poor until standards file is well-tuned — expect early developer pushback
✗IDE assistant is competent but lags Cursor and Copilot on agentic refactor workflows
✗BYOK model means your model bill is separate; total cost of ownership is higher than the listed seat price

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