DeepSource vs Code Climate Quality

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

From $16 per user/month (indicative)

Among the cheapest per-developer options with autofix included.

Per-seat pricing; free for public repositories.

Free for open source and small teams.

Free for open-source repositories.

Established

DeepSource · since 2019

Established

Code Climate · since 2011

• Autofix commits remove the tedious half of acting on findings.
• Low false-positive rate keeps developers engaged with the tool.
• Cheap and quick to adopt.

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

• Narrower language coverage than SonarQube.
• Smaller vendor with less enterprise governance tooling.
• Autofix still needs review — it is not unattended.

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

Teams that want static analysis developers do not resent.

Teams that want a simple maintainability signal in pull requests.