DeepSource vs SonarQube

From $24 per user/month (Team, billed yearly)

From $34 per month (SonarQube Cloud Team, up to 100k lines of code)

Team includes a $100 annual AI Review credit per user; Enterprise adds self-hosting and SSO on a quote.

SonarQube Cloud Team starts at $34/month for 100k lines of code and scales in LOC increments. Self-managed SonarQube Server (Developer, Enterprise, Data Center) is licensed per instance per year by lines of code, and SonarSource no longer publishes those figures — you have to ask sales. Branch and PR analysis requires a paid edition either way.

Free for public repositories, with 1,000 PR reviews a month; 14-day trial plus AI Review credits on paid plans.

Community Build is free and self-hosted; SonarQube Cloud is free for public projects and for private projects up to 50k lines of code.

Established

DeepSource · since 2019

Category standard

Sonar · since 2007

• 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.

• Clean-as-you-code is the only quality-gate model that reliably works on legacy codebases.
• Very broad language coverage from one tool and one gate.
• Self-hosting satisfies organisations that cannot send source code externally.

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

• Branch and pull-request analysis — the feature most teams actually need — is paid only.
• Default rule sets are noisy until tuned to the team.
• Self-hosted instances need real resources and maintenance.

Teams that want static analysis developers do not resent.

Polyglot organisations that need one quality gate across every repository.