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SonarQube

Overview

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code

SonarQube is a cloud-based and self-hosted code quality and security platform that detects bugs, vulnerabilities, and architecture.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

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Pricing

Starting from

4

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

720

Per year

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

6.2K

5

4

3

2

1

4.8K

1.2K

98

7

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

4.5

68

5

4

3

2

1

40

24

3

0

1

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
87%
would recommend this app

Pros

“We run pull requests through it daily for our backend services, and the review flow (inline comments, suggested changes, required approvals before merge) makes it easy to keep code quality high even when we're shipping fast.”
KS

Kaynan S.

Software Engineer

“The platform improves visibility into code changes, simplifies collaboration between technical teams, and helps ensure deployments are organized and traceable.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“GitHub provides a centralized platform for version control, pull requests, code reviews, issue tracking, and CI/CD automation, making the entire software development lifecycle more efficient.”
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Himanshu G.

AI Engineer

Pros

“The vulnerability detection is one of its strongest features because it points out security risks, bugs, and code smells before they become bigger problems.”
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Swarnima G.

Software Engineer

“What I liked most about SonarQube is how helpful it is for improving code quality and catching issues early in development.”
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Swarnima G.

Software Engineer

“It helps reduce issues before deployment, which can save a lot of time later.”
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Swarnima G.

Software Engineer

Cons

“GitHub has tried to simplify things over the years, but it still lacks a genuinely user-friendly, abstracted environment for non-developers who just need to collaborate on data or check progress.”
MC

Mark C.

Membership Secretary, Trustee and Designer

“The learning curve can be pretty steep if you’re new to Git concepts like rebasing or complex conflict resolution.”
BR

Brendan R.

Workshop Manager

Cons

“I avoid unpleasant surprises and broken code in production.”
PJ

Philip J.

IT specialist

“In order to try to reduce my cost, our engineering team attempted to discsonnect some unused repos... nope, not possible.”
ZR

Zach R.

CEO OWner

“May block delivery/deployment if hard gates are enabled by DevOps team which may delay project delivery.”
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Akash M.

Sr. Vice President

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review6 days ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review4 months ago

Key features

  • Total features66
  • @mentions
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Custom Development
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Debugging
  • Decision Support
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Proactive Recommendations
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Status Tracking
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features41
  • @mentions
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compliance Management
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Custom Development
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Debugging
  • Decision Support
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Integration into Third Party Applications
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Proactive Recommendations
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Status Tracking
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations15
  • AWS CodeBuild
  • Android Studio
  • Apache Maven
  • Azure DevOps Server
  • Bitbucket
  • ChatGPT
  • CircleCI
  • Claude
  • Codemagic
  • Cursor
  • Datadog
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Drata
  • Dynatrace
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Heroku
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • JFrog
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PyCharm
  • Slack
  • Travis CI
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Total integrations24
  • AWS CodeBuild
  • Android Studio
  • Apache Maven
  • Azure DevOps Server
  • Bitbucket
  • ChatGPT
  • CircleCI
  • Claude
  • Codemagic
  • Cursor
  • Datadog
  • DevOps
  • Docker
  • Drata
  • Dynatrace
  • Git
  • GitLab
  • Heroku
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • JFrog
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • PyCharm
  • Slack
  • Travis CI
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code

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