Codacy vs Qodana

From $18 per developer/month (Team, billed annually; $21 monthly)

From $5 per active contributor/month (Ultimate, billed annually; 3-contributor minimum)

Per-developer pricing rather than lines of code, which suits small teams with large codebases. Team covers up to 30 developers and 100 private repos; beyond that Business is quote-based.

Priced per active contributor — counted from commits over rolling 90-day periods, not from repo access — with a three-contributor floor. Ultimate Plus adds taint analysis, licence audit, SSO and unlimited history. Cheaper than SonarQube for JetBrains-centric teams.

Developer plan is free forever, and Team is free for open-source projects.

Community edition and its linters are free; Ultimate and Ultimate Plus have 30-day trials.

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.