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Better standards.
Better integration.
Unlimited lines of code.
Better standards.
Better integration.
Unlimited lines of code.
80% of organizations using Codacy have migrated away from SonarQube to unlock true code health at scale.
Why Codacy is the #1
SonarQube alternative
Why Codacy is the #1
SonarQube alternative
Effortless deployment in the cloud
Effortless deployment in the cloud
Codacy customers onboard up to 100% of their projects in under 3 months. Simple, Git-based onboarding experience for teams of any size.
Codacy customers onboard up to 100% of their projects in under 3 months. Simple, Git-based onboarding experience for teams of any size.
Standards that devs actually follow
Standards that devs actually follow
SonarQube’s high false positive rate forces many devs to bypass quality gates. Codacy delivers smart, stackable coding standards across 49 programming languages.
SonarQube’s high false positive rate forces many devs to bypass quality gates. Codacy delivers smart, stackable coding standards across 49 programming languages.
Bringing AppSec and Engineering together
Bringing AppSec and Engineering together
Secure code is quality code. Codacy helps engineers avoid tedious rework on insecure dependencies (SCA), hardcoded secrets, SAST and DAST vulnerabilities.
Secure code is quality code. Codacy helps engineers avoid tedious rework on insecure dependencies (SCA), hardcoded secrets, SAST and DAST vulnerabilities.
Guardrails baked into your IDE
Guardrails baked into your IDE
Codacy Guardrails brings your coding standards into your IDE, flagging and auto-repairing every line of risky code, even when generated by your AI agent, before you even hit commit.
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Codacy Guardrails brings your coding standards into your IDE, flagging and auto-repairing every line of risky code, even when generated by your AI agent, before you even hit commit.
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Limitless lines of code
Limitless lines of code
SonarQube's billing model disincentivizes teams from growing their codebase. With AI code beginning to flood your repos, lines of code should be a commodity, not a pricing model.
SonarQube's billing model disincentivizes teams from growing their codebase. With AI code beginning to flood your repos, lines of code should be a commodity, not a pricing model.
Don’t take our word for it
Migration outcomes for ihomer
• 20% reduction in code duplications across key repos
• 100% of projects migrated to Codacy
• Over 50% of developers adopting Codacy Guardrails
in their daily workflow
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“SonarQube’s pricing changed, so we needed an alternative that we could deploy across all projects. Because Codacy makes it so easy and economical we where able to onboard all of our projects right away.”
Daan van Leth
AI Solutions Consultant at ihomer
Don’t take our word for it
ihomer migrated 100% of their projects from SonarQube to Codacy within days
Migration outcomes for ihomer
• 20% reduction in code duplications across key repos
• 100% of projects migrated to Codacy
• 50% of devs adopting Codacy Guardrails in their daily workflow
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“SonarQube’s pricing changed, so we needed an alternative that we could deploy across all projects. Because Codacy makes it so easy and economical we where able to onboard all of our projects right away.”
Daan van Leth
AI Solutions Consultant at ihomer
Side-by-side comparison
Side-by-side comparison
Codacy delivers better Code Quality and AppSec. No servers or build steps needed.
Code Quality
Code Coverage
SAST
Secret scanning
Dependency checks (SCA)
License scanning
Infrastructure-as-Code
Scan-as-you-code in the IDE
MCP integration
49 languages supported
Unlimited lines of code
Pipelineless code scans
One-click integration
DAST
Penetration testing
Guardrails for AI agents
Native Jira integration
Native Slack integration
Support included
SonarQube
Code Quality
Code Coverage
SAST
Secret scanning
Dependency checks (SCA)
License scanning
Infrastructure-as-Code
Scan-as-you-code in the IDE
MCP integration
39 languages supported
Unlimited lines of code
Pipelineless code scans
One-click integration
DAST
Penetration testing
Guardrails for AI agents
Native Jira integration
Native Slack integration
Support included
Why switch, in a nutshell
SonarQube performs similar types of scans as Codacy but supports fewer languages and limits lines of code.
SonarQube’s outdated workflow adds unnecessary complexity to deployment, config and usage.
Codacy’s shift-left and cloud-first approach makes secure, quality code a design choice, not an afterthought.
Built for and loved by devs
G2 Rating
StackShare Votes
TrustRadius Rating
Gartner 5-Star Ratings
Capterra Rating
4.6 / 5
248
8.9 / 10
63%
4.6
SonarQube
4.4 / 5
53
8.6 / 10
38%
4.5
Sonarqube
4.4 / 5
53
8.6 / 10
38%
4.5
Painless migration with expert guidance
Replacing SonarQube doesn't need to feel like ripping off a Band-Aid
A remarkable 80% of our clients come to us from Sonar, and for good reason.
We’ve dedicated over a decade to mastering complex migration projects, building up the expertise to handle the needs of any business, no matter how big or small.
A remarkable 80% of our clients come to us from Sonar, and for good reason.
We’ve dedicated over a decade to mastering complex migration projects, building up the expertise to handle the needs of any business, no matter how big or small.
Every migration project is unique. Let's talk about yours.
Every migration project is unique. Let's talk about yours.
Proudly shaping the future of software, since 2012
Proudly shaping the future of software, since 2012
In the past decade Codacy has changed the way engineering teams ship secure, high-quality code without sacrificing speed
In the past decade Codacy has changed the way engineering teams ship secure, high-quality code without sacrificing speed
"a security must have"
Codacy is easy to integrate and its new security dashboard provides useful insights into metrics across the company. The support team is really helpful and provides immediate assistance.
David M.
DevOps Specialist
“A Game-Changer for Code Quality and Team Productivity”
My team's overall code quality has improved significantly by using codacy. We have extensively used it to fix syntaxes, detect and remove hardcodings, and improve any redundancy in the code.
In addition to code quality, its integration with pull requests and project management tools such as Jira has helped me to manage code reviews and quality efficiently.
Sarang K.
Technical Project Manager
"Great Tool for Detecting Code Issues, Code Coverage, Code Duplication and Complexity"
From the point of view of a company that processes card transactions and is subject to Compliance/Certifications with card scheme standards, automated code review and detection of security problems is the most useful thing. Codacy helps developers save time in code reviews, so developers can focus on other things. Codacy centralizes customizable code patterns and enforces them within engineering teams so that everyone's code goes through static analysis and is evaluated before being put into production. Easy integration with GitLab. Customer Support is of high quality, responds quickly to inquiries, always helps us as much as possible.
Miroslav B.
Sr. Card System Architect
“Great Tool to Ensure Your Quality Standards”
The high number of programming languages that are supported by Codacy helped a lot in our situation, once we had different tech stacks. It was also very easy to integrate with our CI/CD flows, and we are seeing a really cool product roadmap.
Vinicius P.
Senior Manager, Solutions
“Company That Understands Developers”
I like how Codacy works to build strong partnerships with its customers. I like the focus on developers and the developer experience. I like that Codacy gives me a hassle-free single pane of glass view into code quality across my organization.
Verified User
Education Management
"Pushing Our Quality Higher as They Continually Improve Their Platform and Customer Success"
The Codacy team follows up and ensures that we are getting the most out of the platform. My team members consider it crucial to the success of our projects. It is quite easy to integrate and does its job without human interaction
Michael G.
Principal Engineer
"Helps Maintain High Standards for Our Code"
Codacy's integration with our CICD and with third party technologies like Slack provides us with real time notifications on our code either as pull request commands or as Slack comments , ensuring that we avoid critical code vulnerabilities, that potentially affects our developed software.
Codacy makes configuration of code analysis rules, to be saved as configuration files. The major benefit of this, is that we are able to tweak our code analysis rules to future needs, by simply editing the saved configuration file documentation as against configuring the entire Codacy setup from scratch everytime we need it for a new project.
Chiesa B.
Back End Engineer
"A Great Tool to Add to Open Source CI Toolkit"
I'm an open source project maintainer. Given that I'm already donating thousands of hours of my time on my project, I absolutely love products which offer their tools free to Open Source projects. There are a variety of CI tools available, and no one tool checks every box, but Codacy is one that is really helpful to include. The most helpful feature for me is pull request integration; it notices issues and prompts authors to fix them before I even get a chance to review! It also has the most useful "duplicate detection" algorithms of any of the CI tools I've used, enabling me to refactor and simplify code.
Daniel W.
Sr. Software Engineer
"Excellent Code Coverage Tool with Great GitHub Integration"
We have been using Codacy for the past few years for the https://github.com/apereo/cas project with much success. The Github integration is very easy, and there are excellent instructions on how to set up the pipeline with Github Actions. Codacy has fantastic support for coverage tools specifically for Java projects, such as Jacoco. The results are accurately explained and shown on the Codacy dashboard, and there are a lot of configuration settings that would allow one to customize the coverage data and analysis to assist with better code quality. The UI is intuitive, and Codacy comes with a lot of customizable built-in patterns, recommendations and security checks that help spot issues and fix issues. We also take advantage of metrics on duplication and complexity to identify areas that need attention for all developers and contributors to the project as PRs get submitted and merged. Codacy is also free for Open Source projects, which is something we very much appreciate.
Misagh M.
Software Engineer
"Fantastic Way to Review Your Codebase"
Codacy is fantastic! I absolutely love the UI/UX. The great amount of customizations around rules for code review. Great language support. Love the GitHub integrations with statuses. Still fairly new to the test coverage review feature.
Michael P.
CTO
"A Great Tool to Review Your Code"
I use Codacy in my open source projects, and helps me a lot reviewing all the Pull Requests. I can see if there are some issues that could lead to errors, or some duplicated code that needs to be refactored. The integration with GitHub is one of my favorite feature, since the Pull Request errors can be seen directly on the line of code. From their website you can also ignore some files or directories that doesn't need checks, like tests or demo projects, or anything that is not production and can have issues.
Matteo B.
Software Engineer
"Boost Your Team Code Static Analysis, Quality and More"
- Easy integration as part of your development flow, including this tool on the PRs check and aligning everyone on the team to the defined code quality standards.
- Simple sharing of existing static code configuration between the project and the platform allows you to keep only one source of truth.
- Dashboard and monitoring make it easy to visualize and track the tech debt and all quality standards from one place.
- Reduce the time on the code reviews, important for large teams and not only. Allowing engineers to focus completely on the logic, edge cases, architecture decisions rather than code style, code duplication, issues, etc...
- Self-hosted solution, is especially important for large companies where the source code needs to complain about internal security standards.
- BONUS: Company principles, by supporting open-source projects and startups. Definitely, something that large companies should take note of.
Madalin V.
Senior Software Engineer
"Easy to Integrate, Hard to Give Up!"
- Easy Integration
- Clean Interface
- Coverage Support
- GitHub integration
- Fast feedback
Mustafa O.
Mobile Development Lead
"Exceptional C++ Code Analysis with Great GitHub Integration"
- Deep C++ static code analysis
- Native integration into the GitHub development cycle
- Quality of results, including a detailed description of the detected issues
Niels L.
Lead Developer
FAQ
How is Codacy's setup and integration simpler than SonarQube?
Codacy is built for simplicity and speed. Unlike SonarQube, which often requires you to set up and maintain your own server and integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline, Codacy is a fully managed, cloud-native solution. You can connect your Git provider in minutes with a few clicks. Our "pipeline-less" approach means Codacy scans your code automatically on every pull request, without adding a single step to your CI/CD pipeline, so you get immediate feedback without any added friction or build time.
How does Codacy's billing compare to SonarQube?
Codacy offers a predictable, user-based pricing model, giving you clear visibility into your costs as you scale. SonarQube's pricing can be complex, often tied to a Lines of Code (LOC) model that makes costs unpredictable and can penalize you for expanding your codebase. With Codacy, you get unlimited lines of code and unlimited scans for a fixed, per-user price, which includes essential security features like Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and secret scanning that often require a more expensive paid edition or third-party tools with SonarQube.
What assistance does Codacy provide to simplify the migration process from SonarQube?
We have extensive experience helping teams successfully migrate from SonarQube. Our dedicated team works directly with you to understand your current setup and create a seamless transition plan. We provide comprehensive documentation and personalized support to ensure your team is onboarded smoothly, helping you quickly get value from Codacy while maintaining your workflow's efficiency.
What kind of technical support is included with a Codacy subscription?
All Codacy subscriptions include responsive, high-quality technical support. Our team of experts is ready to assist you with any questions, from initial setup and onboarding to advanced configuration and troubleshooting. We are committed to ensuring your team is successful with Codacy, providing the reliable assistance you need to keep your development workflow running smoothly.
Is there a no-commitment way to see how Codacy performs on our codebase?
Absolutely. We offer two easy ways to get started. For individual developers and smaller teams, you can start a free 14-day trial. Just connect your repository in minutes and you'll get an instant analysis to see exactly how Codacy performs on your own codebase—no credit card required.For larger organizations and teams evaluating a broader rollout, we offer a dedicated one-month Proof of Value (POV). This extended, guided trial allows you to fully test Codacy's capabilities across multiple teams and repositories with personalized support from our experts. This ensures you can confidently see the value Codacy provides before making any commitment.
How is Codacy's setup and integration simpler than SonarQube?
Codacy is built for simplicity and speed. Unlike SonarQube, which often requires you to set up and maintain your own server and integrate it into your CI/CD pipeline, Codacy is a fully managed, cloud-native solution. You can connect your Git provider in minutes with a few clicks. Our "pipeline-less" approach means Codacy scans your code automatically on every pull request, without adding a single step to your CI/CD pipeline, so you get immediate feedback without any added friction or build time.
How does Codacy's billing compare to SonarQube?
Codacy offers a predictable, user-based pricing model, giving you clear visibility into your costs as you scale. SonarQube's pricing can be complex, often tied to a Lines of Code (LOC) model that makes costs unpredictable and can penalize you for expanding your codebase. With Codacy, you get unlimited lines of code and unlimited scans for a fixed, per-user price, which includes essential security features like Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and secret scanning that often require a more expensive paid edition or third-party tools with SonarQube.
What assistance does Codacy provide to simplify the migration process from SonarQube?
We have extensive experience helping teams successfully migrate from SonarQube. Our dedicated team works directly with you to understand your current setup and create a seamless transition plan. We provide comprehensive documentation and personalized support to ensure your team is onboarded smoothly, helping you quickly get value from Codacy while maintaining your workflow's efficiency.
What kind of technical support is included with a Codacy subscription?
All Codacy subscriptions include responsive, high-quality technical support. Our team of experts is ready to assist you with any questions, from initial setup and onboarding to advanced configuration and troubleshooting. We are committed to ensuring your team is successful with Codacy, providing the reliable assistance you need to keep your development workflow running smoothly.
Is there a no-commitment way to see how Codacy performs on our codebase?
Absolutely. We offer two easy ways to get started. For individual developers and smaller teams, you can start a free 14-day trial. Just connect your repository in minutes and you'll get an instant analysis to see exactly how Codacy performs on your own codebase—no credit card required.For larger organizations and teams evaluating a broader rollout, we offer a dedicated one-month Proof of Value (POV). This extended, guided trial allows you to fully test Codacy's capabilities across multiple teams and repositories with personalized support from our experts. This ensures you can confidently see the value Codacy provides before making any commitment.
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