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SonarQube Cloud pricing
SonarQube Cloud publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $34/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
SonarQube Cloud plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Team | $34/month | 5 | +$34/month, 5 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers private project up to 50k lines of code, public/open-source projects free.
Team
$34/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- Up to 100,000 lines of code
- 30+ languages
- Bug and vulnerability detection
- Secrets detection
- AI-driven code fixes
Enterprise
On requestOver Team, this tier adds:
- Advanced security reports
- Audit logs
- SSO/SCIM
- Compliance standards for OWASP/CWE/PCI DSS
- 40+ languages including COBOL and Apex
Where SonarQube Cloud stops being free
Free, Free
- Private project up to 50k lines of code
- Public/open-source projects free
Team, $34/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Up to 100,000 lines of code
- 30+ languages
- Bug and vulnerability detection
- Secrets detection
- AI-driven code fixes
What the product covers
The full SonarQube Cloud feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
core
- Static code analysis
- Pull request decoration
- AI-driven code fixes
security
- Secrets detection
- Compliance reporting
integration
- SCM integration
People bring SonarQube Cloud in for enforcing code quality gates on pull requests, detecting security vulnerabilities in cloud-hosted repositories, scanning for exposed secrets before merge, meeting compliance standards like pci dss, tracking code quality trends across teams. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to SonarQube Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Software Development
Across the 4 software development tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $34.5/month. SonarQube Cloud starts at $34/month, which puts it in line with the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SonarQube Cloud (this page) | Free, then $34/month | freemium | - | |
| Unleash | Free, then $75/month | freemium | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
| TeamCity | Free | freemium | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
| Flagsmith | Free, then $45/month | freemium | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
| DeepSource | Free, then $24/month | freemium | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
| Codacy | Free, then $18/month | freemium | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
| Drizzle ORM | Free | open-source | - | vs SonarQube Cloud |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the SonarQube Cloud badges page.
Before you pay for SonarQube Cloud
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
SonarQube Cloud runs on web, api, and is published by Sonar. The full record is on the SonarQube Cloud review, and the rest of the category is under best software development tools.
SonarQube Cloud pricing questions
- How much does SonarQube Cloud cost?
- SonarQube Cloud publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does SonarQube Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers private project up to 50k lines of code, public/open-source projects free. Paying starts at $34/month for Team.
- What is the difference between Free and Team on SonarQube Cloud?
- Team costs $34/month against Free, and adds up to 100,000 lines of code, 30+ languages, bug and vulnerability detection, secrets detection.
- Is the Enterprise plan on SonarQube Cloud worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is advanced security reports, audit logs, sso/scim, compliance standards for owasp/cwe/pci dss. It costs On request against $34/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is SonarQube Cloud expensive for a software development tool?
- It starts in line with the middle of its category. Across the 4 software development tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $34.5/month; SonarQube Cloud starts at $34/month.
- Which software development tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 7 software development tools listed alongside SonarQube Cloud have a free tier: Unleash, TeamCity, Flagsmith, DeepSource, Codacy.
- What am I actually paying for with SonarQube Cloud?
- The record lists 6 features across 3 areas: core, security, integration. In practice it is brought in for enforcing code quality gates on pull requests, detecting security vulnerabilities in cloud-hosted repositories, scanning for exposed secrets before merge.
- Does SonarQube Cloud charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these SonarQube Cloud prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare SonarQube Cloud against before paying?
- The closest software development tools in this directory are Unleash, TeamCity, Flagsmith, DeepSource. Each has a side-by-side comparison with SonarQube Cloud covering price, platforms and features.