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SonarQube

Code quality and code security for clean code, at every step

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Overview

What SonarQube does

SonarQube is a code quality and security scanning platform, free up to 50,000 lines of code, with Team plans from $34 per month.

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  • Free tier caps at 50,000 lines of code for private projects, per sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing (Aug 2026); larger private codebases require the $34 per month Team plan or above
  • Advanced security features like CVE detection, malicious package detection and SBOM are a separate paid add-on with custom pricing, per SonarSource's own pricing page, not included even in the Enterprise plan's base price

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