Codacy vs Code Climate Quality

From $21 per user/month (indicative, Pro)

From $16 per user/month (indicative)

Per-developer pricing rather than lines of code, which suits small teams with large codebases.

Per-seat pricing; free for public repositories.

Free for open-source projects and small teams.

Free for open-source repositories.

Established

Codacy · since 2014

Established

Code Climate · since 2011

• Per-developer pricing is cheaper than SonarQube for small teams on big repositories.
• Bundles quality and security scanning in one PR check.
• Very quick to set up — connect a repository and it works.

• Maintainability grading is easy to communicate to non-engineers.
• Coverage and quality tracked together in one PR check.
• Free for open source.

• Wrapping open-source linters means analysis depth depends on those tools.
• Configuration across many languages becomes fiddly.
• Less established than SonarQube in enterprise procurement.

• Less depth and fewer languages than SonarQube.
• Letter grades oversimplify and can drive the wrong behaviour.
• Product investment appears to have slowed.

Small and mid-sized teams wanting quality and security checks in PRs without running a server.

Teams that want a simple maintainability signal in pull requests.