ESLint vs Qodana

Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

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

Everything, self-hosted

Community linters are free; Ultimate has a trial.

Category standard

OpenJS Foundation · since 2013

Established

JetBrains · since 2021

• The plugin ecosystem lets you enforce almost any convention as a rule.
• Autofix handles a large share of findings without human effort.
• Universal — every JavaScript tool integrates with it.

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

• Configuration is a real project of its own, and the flat-config migration caused significant churn.
• Slow on large codebases without caching.
• Rule sprawl produces bikeshedding unless someone owns the config.

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

Every JavaScript and TypeScript project.

JetBrains-standardised teams, especially in Java and Kotlin.