SonarQube
Verified Oct 15, 2026 ActiveStatic analysis across 40+ languages, now aimed at checking AI-written code before it reaches a pull request.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $34/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
SonarQube Cloud Team starts at $34 a month for up to 100k lines of code, billed monthly after a 14-day trial; price scales with lines of code, not seats. The free tier never expires but caps private projects at 50k lines; Enterprise is quote-only, Gitar AI Code Review is sold separately at $20 per user per month billed annually, and self-managed Server editions are priced per instance per year on another page.
Use tool ↗About SonarQube
SonarQube analyses source for bugs, vulnerabilities, secrets and quality-gate breaches across 30 to 40-plus languages, and plugs into GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. Sonar's AI line adds agentic analysis that inspects code while it is being generated instead of after the PR opens, cross-file bug detection using a cached project index, a remediation agent that fixes findings and opens pull requests once verified, Gitar for review-and-fix loops until the build passes, and SonarSweep for cleaning up LLM output. Cloud has a permanent free tier capped at 50,000 lines on private projects; the Team plan starts at $34 a month. The vendor is SonarSource Sarl in Switzerland.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026
Verified sources
- SonarQube Team 'starts at $34 monthly' for analysis of up to 100k LOC, under 50 developers, 14-day trial without a card; free tier never expires (private projects up to 50k LOC); Enterprise custom pricing; Gitar AI Code Review $20 per user per month billed annually (15 October 2026)sonarsource.com ↗
- One FAQ answer on the same pricing page still says Team starts at $32 per month, conflicting with the $34 headline (15 October 2026)sonarsource.com ↗
- Footer of the legal page reads '© 2026 SonarSource Sàrl' (15 October 2026)sonarsource.com ↗
- Sonar's AI solution covers agentic analysis, multi-file cached-context detection, a remediation agent, Gitar and SonarSweepsonarsource.com ↗
Is SonarQube legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jun 22, 2008 (18 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Gandi SAS, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 16, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 15, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- SonarSource Sàrl, SwitzerlandOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of SonarQube
The established static-analysis platform repositioned around AI-written code, and the repositioning is more than marketing: analysing during generation and using cached project context for cross-file bugs are the two things single-file review bots genuinely miss. The catch is that the AI agents sit on top of a platform you have to adopt wholesale, and the free tier's 50k-line cap runs out quickly on a real repo.
Pros
- 30 to 40-plus languages under one quality profile
- Agentic analysis catches issues during generation rather than after the PR
- Cross-file bug detection via a cached project index, which single-file checkers miss
- Remediation agent verifies its own fixes before opening a pull request
- Free tier never expires and integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps and Bitbucket
Cons
- Free tier caps private projects at 50,000 lines of code
- $34/month Team plan only suits teams under 50 developers; above that it is Enterprise on quote
- SonarQube Server pricing lives on a separate page and is not published alongside Cloud
- The AI features assume you have adopted the wider Sonar platform
Best for
- Teams shipping large volumes of AI-generated code
- Organisations that need one quality gate over both human and AI code
- Polyglot codebases spanning many languages
Not for
- Solo developers wanting a lightweight PR bot
- Private repos over 50k lines that want to stay on the free tier
Watch out: The AI capabilities are spread across several named products - Gitar, SonarSweep, the remediation agent - so confirm which ones your tier actually includes before buying.
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