Qlty (formerly Code Climate Quality) vs Codacy

From $20 per contributor/month (Pro; Enterprise $30)

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

Priced per contributor. Free for K-12 and universities, 10% off for registered non-profits.

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.

Free plan with unlimited contributors, 1,000 analysis minutes and 100 AI autofixes a month.

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

Established

Qlty Software (spun out of Code Climate) · since 2011

Established

Codacy · since 2014

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

• 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.

• Letter grades oversimplify and can drive the wrong behaviour.
• The Code Climate to Qlty transition means older documentation, URLs and integration guides still say Code Climate.
• Velocity, the companion engineering-metrics product, was sunset — do not buy expecting it.

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

Teams that want a simple maintainability signal in pull requests.

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