Codacy vs Qodana

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

From $8 per user/month (indicative, Ultimate)

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

Priced per active contributor; cheaper than SonarQube for JetBrains-centric teams.

Free for open-source projects and small teams.

Community linters are free; Ultimate has a trial.

Established

Codacy · since 2014

Established

JetBrains · since 2021

• 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.

• Identical inspection results locally and in CI — no arguing with the pipeline.
• JetBrains' Java and Kotlin analysis is exceptionally good.
• Licence auditing included.

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

• Value is highest for teams already using JetBrains IDEs.
• Fewer languages than SonarQube.
• Younger product with a smaller community.

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

JetBrains-standardised teams, especially in Java and Kotlin.