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SonarQube is a code quality and vulnerability solution.

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SonarQube - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: October 2025

SonarQube overview

What is SonarQube?

SonarQube is a self-managed open-source platform that helps developers create code devoid of quality and vulnerability issues. By integrating seamlessly with the top DevOps platforms in the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline, SonarQube continuously inspects projects across multiple programming languages, providing immediate status feedback while coding. SonarQube’s quality gates become part of your release pipeline, displaying pass/fail results for new code based on quality profiles you customize to your company standards.

Who uses SonarQube?

By industry, SonarQube reviewers are most commonly professionals in computer software (36%). The most frequent use case for SonarQube cited by reviewers is continuous integration (67% of reviewers).

What are the most popular integrations for SonarQube?

The SonarQube integrations most frequently cited by reviewers are: Jenkins (a continuous integration product rated 4.7 out of 5 for its integration with SonarQube), GitHub (an application development product, 4.9), and Bitbucket (a source code management product, 4.7).

Starting price

Free

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Pros & Cons

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Consistency

Vulnerabilities

Deployment

SonarQube’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

SonarQube pros, cons and reviews insights

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Reviews sentiment

 
 
 
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3-4(24)
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What do users say about SonarQube?

Reviewers indicate SonarQube helps them identify code vulnerabilities, bugs, and code smells, making it easier to improve security and code quality. They appreciate its detailed reports, proactive alerts, and support for multiple languages, which help them maintain cleaner, safer code and reduce production issues. They find it valuable for tracking code quality over time and removing duplicate code. Some say it improves collaboration and productivity within development teams.

Users report SonarQube integrates well with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps, though they experience challenges with documentation, IDE integration, and repository management. They mention limitations in the free version and occasional setup difficulties.

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Who uses SonarQube?

Based on 65 verified user reviews.

Company size

Enterprises

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Computer Software
Information Technology and Services
Telecommunications
Banking
Others

Use cases

Continuous Integration
Application Development
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

SonarQube's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from SonarQube users:

Debugging
For developers
Application security
Continuous delivery
Reporting/Analytics
Vulnerability scanning

All SonarQube features

Features rating:

Status tracking
Source control
Quality assurance
Issue management
Dashboard
Graphical user interface
Continuous deployment
Collaboration tools
Third-Party integrations
Integrated development environment
Source-Code scanning
Monitoring
Access controls/permissions
Real-Time analytics
API
Bug tracking
Lifecycle management
Configurable workflow
Compliance management
Workflow management
Task management
Activity dashboard
Deployment management
Software development
Multi-Language scanning
Mobile development
Continuous integration
Custom development
Data import/export

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SonarQube pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Community Edition

0.00

Features included:

  • Popular & classic languages support
  • integration with DevOps platforms
  • clear go/no-go Sonar Quality Gate
  • super-fast analysis
  • shared, unified configurations
  • SonarLint IDE integration

Developer Edition

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No pricing info

Features included:

  • 30+ languages
  • Autodetect when projects potentially contain AI-generated code
  • AI Code Assurance
  • Run in a FIPS-enforced environment
  • Integrate seamlessly into your CI/CD workflow
  • Discover issues in code that cause bugs, hotspots, and security vulnerabilities
  • Track and resolve technical debt
  • Monitor code quality metrics and history of activity
  • Industry leading secrets detection
  • Combine third-party tool results with SARIF reports
  • AutoConfig for C and C++ projects
  • Taint analysis
  • Find advanced dataflow bugs
  • Show percentage of test case coverage for improved code quality
  • Automatically analyze feature and maintenance branches and pull requests
  • Autoprovision users and groups from GitHub and GitLab
  • Automaticallly sync permissions with GitHub and GitLab
  • Display secret vulnerabilities in GitHub and GitLab
  • Collect multiple projects together as an application for a single view
  • Display quality gates pass/fail status in DevOps pull request comments
  • integration with DevOps platforms

Enterprise Edition

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No pricing info

Features included:

  • 30+ languages
  • Autodetect when projects potentially contain AI-generated code
  • AI Code Assurance
  • Run in a FIPS-enforced environment
  • Integrate seamlessly into your CI/CD workflow
  • Discover issues in code that cause bugs, hotspots, and security vulnerabilities
  • Track and resolve technical debt
  • Monitor code quality metrics and history of activity
  • Industry leading secrets detection
  • Combine third-party tool results with SARIF reports
  • AutoConfig for C and C++ projects
  • Taint analysis
  • Find advanced dataflow bugs
  • Show percentage of test case coverage for improved code quality
  • Automatically analyze feature and maintenance branches and pull requests
  • Autoprovision users and groups from GitHub and GitLab
  • Automaticallly sync permissions with GitHub and GitLab
  • Display secret vulnerabilities in GitHub and GitLab
  • Collect multiple projects together as an application for a single view
  • Display quality gates pass/fail status in DevOps pull request comments
  • integration with DevOps platforms
  • AI CodeFix
  • Custom configure the security engine for more powerful taint analysis
  • Create custom rules to detect private secret patterns
  • Aggregate projects and applications into a portfolio
  • Project, application, and executive portfolio reports
  • Regulatory reports and audit logs
  • Consolidate projects into a central instance
  • Analyze with parallel processing to improve performance for large teams
  • Pull request decoration and guided setup for monorepos
  • Configure testing and staging environments with additional licenses
  • Automatically provision users and groups through SCIM with Okta and Azure AD
  • Set rule priority to uphold your coding standards
  • Security reports for common security standards

Data Center Edition

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No pricing info

Features included:

  • 30+ languages
  • Autodetect when projects potentially contain AI-generated code
  • AI Code Assurance
  • Run in a FIPS-enforced environment
  • Integrate seamlessly into your CI/CD workflow
  • Discover issues in code that cause bugs, hotspots, and security vulnerabilities
  • Track and resolve technical debt
  • Monitor code quality metrics and history of activity
  • Industry leading secrets detection
  • Combine third-party tool results with SARIF reports
  • AutoConfig for C and C++ projects
  • Taint analysis
  • Find advanced dataflow bugs
  • Show percentage of test case coverage for improved code quality
  • Automatically analyze feature and maintenance branches and pull requests
  • Autoprovision users and groups from GitHub and GitLab
  • Automaticallly sync permissions with GitHub and GitLab
  • Display secret vulnerabilities in GitHub and GitLab
  • Collect multiple projects together as an application for a single view
  • Display quality gates pass/fail status in DevOps pull request comments
  • integration with DevOps platforms
  • AI CodeFix
  • Custom configure the security engine for more powerful taint analysis
  • Create custom rules to detect private secret patterns
  • Aggregate projects and applications into a portfolio
  • Project, application, and executive portfolio reports
  • Security reports for common security standards
  • Regulatory reports and audit logs
  • Consolidate projects into a central instance
  • Analyze with parallel processing to improve performance for large teams
  • Pull request decoration and guided setup for monorepos
  • Configure testing and staging environments with additional licenses
  • Automatically provision users and groups through SCIM with Okta and Azure AD
  • Set rule priority to uphold your coding standards
  • Component redundancy
  • Data resiliency
  • Horizontal scalability
  • High performance under extreme load
  • Autoscale in a Kubernetes cluster

User opinions about SonarQube price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of SonarQube's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“Really good to detect bugs, vulnerabilities and code smells. And integration with popular CI/CD pipelines is really impressive.”
CP

Carlos P.

QAE

“Calculate the quality of code and also helps to improve the quality by providing the solution.”

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SonarQube integrations (21)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 65 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as SonarQube integrations and how users feel about them.

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Jenkins

Integration rating: 4.7 (7)

SQ scans with Quality Gate allows protection of your deliverables from both common code errors, platforms' issues Devs might not be aware of, or code regressions or code suboptimal organisation that might make it harder to support in the long run. This allows you to limit publishing of product only if it qualifies for release as per project defined quality levels or fail the pipeline otherwise, keeping your deliverables safe and customers happy.

So before deployment, you can check the coverage and share the report with others also.

MK

Marcin K.

Senior Technical Engineer/Senior DevOps Engineer

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GitHub logo
GitHub

Integration rating: 4.8 (5)

Bitbucket logo
Bitbucket

Integration rating: 4.8 (4)

Integration rating: 4.7 (3)

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GitLab

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

SonarQube support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Phone Support
FAQs/Forum

Training options

Documentation
Webinars
Videos

SonarQube FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does SonarQube offer?

SonarQube has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $0.00/year
Pricing model: Free, Subscription, Open Source
Free Trial: Available | (No Credit Card required)

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Q. What are the benefits of using SonarQube?


-Self-managed deployment in the infrastructure of your choice
-Static Code Analysis to improve code quality and maintainability
-Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
-Scans all file types in the repository
-Secrets detection
-Clear go/no-go Sonar Quality Gates
-30+ languages, frameworks & IaC platforms
-High availability deployment with Data Center Edition
-Super-fast analysis
-Critical security rules for vital languages
-Comprehensive reporting capabilities with commercial editions
-Real-time coding guidance in the IDE with SonarLint (in connected mode)


Q. Who are the typical users of SonarQube?

SonarQube has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business


Q. Does SonarQube offer an API?

Yes, SonarQube has an API available for use.


Q. What other apps does SonarQube integrate with?

SonarQube integrates with the following applications:
GitHub, Microsoft Azure, GitLab, Jenkins, Bitbucket


Q. What level of support does SonarQube offer?

SonarQube offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Phone Support, FAQs/Forum

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