Qodana vs DeepSource
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
From $5 per active contributor/month (Ultimate, billed annually; 3-contributor minimum)
Free tierFrom $24 per user/month (Team, billed yearly)
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
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.
Team includes a $100 annual AI Review credit per user; Enterprise adds self-hosting and SSO on a quote.
Free tier
Community edition and its linters are free; Ultimate and Ultimate Plus have 30-day trials.
Free for public repositories, with 1,000 PR reviews a month; 14-day trial plus AI Review credits on paid plans.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
JetBrains · since 2021
Established
DeepSource · since 2019
Strengths
- Identical inspection results locally and in CI — no arguing with the pipeline.
- JetBrains' Java and Kotlin analysis is exceptionally good.
- Licence auditing included.
- 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.
Limitations
- Value is highest for teams already using JetBrains IDEs.
- Fewer languages than SonarQube.
- Younger product with a smaller community.
- Narrower language coverage than SonarQube.
- Smaller vendor with less enterprise governance tooling.
- Autofix still needs review — it is not unattended.
Best for
JetBrains-standardised teams, especially in Java and Kotlin.
Teams that want static analysis developers do not resent.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.