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SonarQube

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4.4

Overview

Product Information on SonarQube

Updated 6th February 2026

What is SonarQube?

SonarQube is an automated code review platform that checks your code for quality and security issues, available via cloud or on your own server. SonarQube is an independent review and verification layer to ensure all code—whether written by developers or generated by AI or AI agents—is secure, reliable, and maintainable. SonarQube automatically scans every code change, giving developers clear instructions and suggested fixes to resolve problems before they are merged into the main project. The experience starts in your editor with SonarQube for IDE, which works with both traditional and AI-native code editors, to highlight problems and suggest fixes. SonarQube also connects directly to your AI coding tools through an MCP server, giving AI assistants the data they need to understand your code's quality and security rules. Originally built by the open-source community, it is now used by over 7 million developers globally.

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Overall experience with SonarQube

Chief Architect
30B + USD, Consumer Goods
FAVORABLE

“SonarQube Enables Transparent Software Quality Tracking and Customizable Coding Rules”

5.0
Oct 16, 2025
I set up and used SonarQube for several years in CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality goals in my teams were clearly defined and met at each commit. The results of the scans were important for handover of software products between teams and different devops partners, as we had a very transparent state of the software quality.
APPLICATION ARCHITECT
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Government
CRITICAL

“SonarCloud's Unexpected Price Increase Very Concerning”

3.0
Sep 12, 2024
The tool has great integration with Azure DevOps. However, they don't have any documentation on implementing a quality gate using an Azure Devops branch policy even though the feature exists. I figured out how to do it by luck and it appears to be the only way to get it working. Lastly, beware of SonarCloud pricing. We had the product for 1 year now and they created a new plan we have to move to with a 71% price increase. In addition, we have to do a 2-year contract or they will add an additional 10%. Not sure if they will do another significant price increase in another two years. Fortunately, we don't have full integration with too many projects and can move to another vendor.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 30th October 2024

Sonar helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software. Rooted in the open-source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Year Founded
2008
Head office location
Geneva, Switzerland
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://sonarsource.com/

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SonarQube Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like the capability to have various rulesets and be able to customize rules that are relevant to my specific domain. I liked the possibility to push these rules as settings for my developers IDE so that they had an early indication when coding rules were violated.

Like

They are the few Vendors that integrate with Azure DevOps. It provides good Quality Code analytics and has limited and useful security features.

Like

- SonarQube PyCharm plug-in's code recommendations help to optimize code and make it more clean; - SonarQube server shows test coverage level on the new and overall code; - All found alerts and warnings could be assigned to the team members to remediate

Dislike

I have never achieved good results on C repos, however this may be due to inherent difficulties in analysing C/C code. Maintaining custom coding rules becomes tedious when there are a lot of changes in the underlying rulesets.

Dislike

They are lacking on Support. I wanted to use a quality gate in my Azure DevOps pipeline and they don't have documentation on how to implement it in a real-world pipeline with a quality gate. They had a basic example that was completely worthless to me. In addition, they were unwilling to help me with any support.

Dislike

- the default settings provide a lot of unnecessary warnings and should be tweaked to have more sense; - it is hard to exclude or partially exclude files and code blocks from scan - it is slower than expected analyzing the large projects

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Peer Discussions

SonarQube Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(111 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
38%
4 Star
57%
3 Star
5%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

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4.3

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4.6

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4.4

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4.5

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  • Chief Architect
    10B+ USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    SonarQube Enables Transparent Software Quality Tracking and Customizable Coding Rules

    5.0
    Oct 16, 2025
    I set up and used SonarQube for several years in CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality goals in my teams were clearly defined and met at each commit. The results of the scans were important for handover of software products between teams and different devops partners, as we had a very transparent state of the software quality.
  • IT OPS SPECIALIST
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    SonarQube Enhances Python Code Quality With Customizable Checks And Assignable Alerts

    4.0
    Oct 22, 2025
    SonarQube provides an additional layer of checks and optimizations during my Python development. It helps keeping my code clean and properly covered by the tests. Some checks could be annoying though, but they could be commented out in place or turned off at all
  • Director Enterprise Architecture
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    SonarQube Enables Fast Issue Identification and Seamless Integration in Build Pipelines

    5.0
    Jul 8, 2025
    SonarQube is a true value-add for many organizations. Not only does it help identify various quality issues, it does it at speed in the build pipeline. Additionally, smart engineers will use the IDE extension to get feedback while the code is being written, without waiting on the CI/CD build to complete.
  • IT Manager
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Intuitive Dashboard for SAST and Seamless Azure DevOps Integration by SonarQube

    5.0
    Jul 4, 2025
    SonarQube seemed to be a very good tool for code coverage analysis and finding vulnerabilities in code. The dashboard gives a very good view of the analysis results. Pricing seemed to be optimal with respect to other vendors providing similar features. Open API of SonarQube is also very helpful for preparing custom reports.
  • Sourcing Operations Manager
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    A reliable LOC Analyzer

    5.0
    Jul 3, 2025
    The tool is working very well in analyzing lines of Code and increasing the efficiency of our developers.
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