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Ellipsis
Managed cloud platform from a Y Combinator team that runs coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex in isolated sandboxes for code review, background tasks, and migrations.
Platform and developer productivity teams that want coding agents running on schedules, pull requests, or Slack requests with spend caps and full session logs.
Individual developers who only want an editor assistant, or teams that need hands-on vendor help but cannot budget for a paid support package.
Verdict
Ellipsis is a developer tools company started in New York in 2023 by Hunter Brooks, a former machine learning engineer at AWS and Amazon Ads, and Nick Bradford, a founding engineer at Grit. It began as an AI code reviewer for GitHub and now runs coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode in isolated cloud sandboxes, triggered by pull requests, schedules, Slack, Linear, or Sentry. It matters because engineering leaders want agents doing real work across many repositories without losing track of what each one touched or spent.
Score Breakdown
How Ellipsis scores in the categories that matter to its buyers.
Pricing
Ellipsis charges no per-seat fee. Agents bill tokens at cost plus a 10% platform fee, with compute metered by the hour.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Managed SaaS | Tokens at cost + 10% | CPU $0.142 per vCPU-hour, memory $0.024 per GB-hour |
| Your AWS account | 10% of token cost | Compute and tokens billed by AWS inside your VPC |
| Support, Standard | $5,000 / month | Slack channel, guided onboarding, 48-hour first response |
| Support, Premier | $15,000 / month | Named support engineer, 4-hour first response |
The Field at a Glance
How Ellipsis compares with other Coding agents & developer tools vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Ellipsis scores 7.7 in Coding agents & developer tools, under Sourcegraph (8.3), Cline (8.2), and Factory (7.8), and level with Augment Code (7.7). Relative cost lands lower for this subcategory.
Use-case matrix
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Automated pull request review | Strong | Code review was the original Ellipsis product. |
| Background and scheduled agents | Strong | Agents run on cron, API, CLI, or web triggers. |
| Running in your own cloud | Strong | A BYOC option deploys into your AWS VPC. |
| Spend control | Strong | Per-session, daily, weekly, and monthly caps. |
| Editor autocomplete | Weak | Ellipsis runs cloud sessions, not an IDE plugin. |
| White-glove help on a small budget | Weak | Support packages start at $5,000 a month. |
Who it’s for
Good fit
- Platform teams standardizing coding agents
- Teams running code migrations across repos
- Engineering orgs that need agent audit logs
Poor fit
- Solo developers
- Teams that want an IDE assistant
- Buyers who need vendor-led rollout on a tight budget
Review Excerpts
Below are excerpts from public reviews. Our team scoured public reviews, forums, and chat rooms to get a balanced view of customers' experience with this company. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch were excluded.
Ellipsis describes itself as an agents-as-a-service platform for building coding agents that handle feature generation, background tasks, and code review, with Ellipsis running the infrastructure, permissions, logging, and budgets.
There are no per-seat fees on either offering; tokens are passed through at cost and the platform fee is 10% of token cost, with every feature included on both the managed and AWS-hosted versions.
Direct help from the Ellipsis team is sold separately: the Standard support package is $5,000 a month with a 48-hour first response, and a named support engineer requires the $15,000 Premier package.
Company Facts
- Founded
- 2023 (Y Combinator)
- Headquarters
- New York City, NY (Y Combinator)
- Employees
- About 2 (Y Combinator)
- Accelerator
- Y Combinator, Winter 2024 batch (Y Combinator)
- Website
- ellipsis.dev
Key Leadership
Hunter Brooks
Co-founder and CEO
Methodology
This page is an independent evaluation of Ellipsis for buyers comparing options in coding agents & developer tools. AI Industry Reviews accepts no sponsorships, advertising, or pay-for-placement fees. Ellipsis did not pay for this review.
What we scored
The headline number is an Overall Score on a 0-10 scale. Eight criteria sit under it in two groups.
- Buyer outcomes (for coding agents & developer tools)
- Agent governance and logging
- Model and harness flexibility
- Pricing transparency
- Hands-on vendor support
- Company & commercial
- Innovation & product leadership
- Project management & communication
- Pricing
- Contract fairness
Pricing measures whether the price looks fair for the value delivered, including packaging and renewal friction that show up in real buying cycles.
Score Composition
| Input | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Reviews | 40% | A proprietary read of what practitioners say about likes, complaints, and day-to-day use, including public review sites, forums, and private chat rooms. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites such as Clutch are out of scope. |
| Product | 35% | Hands-on look at screens and workflows. |
| Pricing | 15% | Whether the price looks fair for what you get. |
| Docs & training | 10% | Docs, tutorials, and training material. |
How we balanced the evidence
The Overall Score is the simple average of the eight criteria. Recommendation language follows that score and the fit pattern described above.
Scope
Ellipsis is graded here as coding agents & developer tools. Criteria scores can move as more review volume and product checks are added.