Skip to content
aicoolies logo
Codacy logo

Codacy

Automated code quality

Codacy is a managed code quality, security and AI-guardrails platform for GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket teams. It scans pull requests and repositories for quality, coverage and security issues while adding AI Inventory, AI Guardrails, AI Risk Hub, AI Reviewer and Verity beta surfaces for AI-assisted engineering.

About Codacy

Codacy gives engineering teams a managed layer for repository quality, security and coverage checks. It connects to GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, reviews pull requests and repositories, and centralizes maintainability, duplication, complexity, security and coverage signals in dashboards that teams can standardize across many projects.

The current product should also be framed around AI-assisted engineering governance. Codacy’s public site highlights AI Inventory, AI Guardrails, AI Risk Hub, AI Reviewer and a public beta Verity surface for Claude Code, alongside code quality, security and coverage. Those surfaces are useful for teams trying to keep generated code reviewable and policy-compliant.

Pricing is now clearer than the old Pro anchor: a free Developer tier, Team from $18 per developer per month on yearly billing or $21 monthly, and custom Business plans. Codacy is best for teams that want managed quality and governance across repositories, while teams with a deeply tuned internal tooling stack should pilot for noise, rule fit and overlap.

Pricing & Platform Specs

Pricing Summary

Automated code review, static analysis (SAST), and code quality platform supporting 40+ languages. 100% Free ($0) for public open-source repositories. Pro/Team tier is $15–$18/developer/month (billed annually, or ~$21/mo billed monthly) with a 14-day free trial, covering unlimited private repositories, Codacy AI automated PR reviews and fixes, code coverage tracking, and DORA engineering metrics (Pulse). Enterprise plan offers custom pricing for self-hosted VPC/on-premise Kubernetes deployments, SAML 2.0 SSO, DAST/container scanning, and dedicated enterprise SLAs.

full pricing breakdown →

Supported Platforms

GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, cloud-hosted code quality and security scans, coverage reporting, IDE/extension surfaces, cloud CLI, AI Guardrails and pull request checks.

Explore categories, tags & use cases

Categories

AI-powered code review

AI-powered code review tool that automatically analyzes pull requests and provides line-by-line feedback on code quality, bugs, security vulnerabilities, and best practices. Integrates with GitHub and GitLab as a bot that comments on PRs. Uses LLMs to understand code context and suggest improvements. Learns from your codebase patterns and team preferences. Supports all major programming languages. Reduces review cycle time while catching issues human reviewers might miss.

freemium

Code intelligence platform

Code intelligence platform providing universal code search across all repositories, languages, and code hosts. Search with regex, structural patterns, and diff/commit search across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and self-hosted repos. Features code navigation (go-to-definition, find references) in the browser, batch changes for large-scale refactoring, code insights for tracking metrics, and Cody AI assistant for code generation and explanation. Self-hosted and cloud options.

freemium

AI code integrity platform for test generation and quality

Qodo, formerly CodiumAI, is an AI code integrity platform focused on reviewing, testing, and improving code quality across the development lifecycle. It provides AI-powered code reviews, automated test generation, and context-aware suggestions that span IDE, pull request, and CI/CD workflows. Qodo distinguishes itself from general-purpose AI coding assistants by focusing on quality assurance rather than code generation alone.

freemium

Side-by-Side Comparisons

CodeRabbit logo
CodeRabbit
vs
Codacy logo
Codacy

CodeRabbit vs Codacy: AI Pull-Request Review vs a DevSecOps Quality Gate

CodeRabbit and Codacy can both comment on pull requests, but they solve different primary problems. CodeRabbit is an AI-first review product focused on explaining a change, finding contextual issues, and proposing fixes inside the review loop. Codacy is a broader quality-and-security platform that combines pull-request feedback with SAST, SCA, secrets detection, coverage, coding standards, and merge policies. This comparison helps a product team decide whether review throughput or enforceable governance is the more urgent constraint.

Codacy logo
Codacy
vs
SonarQube logo
SonarQube

Codacy vs SonarQube: Which Code-Quality & Security Platform Should You Standardize On?

Codacy and SonarQube are the two platforms most engineering leaders shortlist when they want one system of record for code quality and application security. They overlap heavily — both scan pull requests for bugs, vulnerabilities, duplication, and coverage signals — but they diverge on analysis depth, deployment control, DevOps-platform support, and how cost scales. This guide is for the team choosing a durable organization-wide standard, not a one-off repository audit.

CodacySonarQube

Community experience

Sources & verification

Sources checked
Content verified

Verification dates are editorial checks. Routine CMS saves and automatic updatedAt timestamps do not advance them.

FAQ

What is Codacy?

Codacy is a managed code quality, security and AI-guardrails platform for GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket teams. It scans pull requests and repositories for quality, coverage and security issues while adding AI Inventory, AI Guardrails, AI Risk Hub, AI Reviewer and Verity beta surfaces for AI-assisted engineering.

Is Codacy free?

Codacy offers a free tier alongside paid plans. Automated code review, static analysis (SAST), and code quality platform supporting 40+ languages. 100% Free ($0) for public open-source repositories. Pro/Team tier is $15–$18/developer/month (billed annually, or ~$21/mo billed monthly) with a 14-day free trial, covering unlimited private repositories, Codacy AI automated PR reviews and fixes, code coverage tracking, and DORA engineering metrics (Pulse). Enterprise plan offers custom pricing for self-hosted VPC/on-premise Kubernetes deployments, SAML 2.0 SSO, DAST/container scanning, and dedicated enterprise SLAs.

Is Codacy still maintained?

Yes — Codacy is active. Its listing was last verified on September 20, 2026.

What are the best Codacy alternatives?

The first editor-selected Codacy alternatives are CodeRabbit, Sourcegraph, Qodo.

How does Codacy score in our review?

The published editorial review lists Codacy at 82/100 overall across speed, privacy, and developer experience. Check the review's evidence status and test metadata for its verification level.