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Codacy vs SonarQube: What are the differences?

Developers describe Codacy as "Automated Code Review". Codacy is an automated code review tool for Scala, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Python, CoffeeScript and CSS. It's continuous static analysis without the hassle. Save time in Code Reviews. Tackle your technical debt. On the other hand, SonarQube is detailed as "Continuous Code Quality". SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

Codacy and SonarQube belong to "Code Review" category of the tech stack.

"Automated code review" is the top reason why over 32 developers like Codacy, while over 9 developers mention "Tracks code complexity and smell trends" as the leading cause for choosing SonarQube.

SonarQube is an open source tool with 3.78K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SonarQube's open source repository on GitHub.

Starbucks, Dial Once, and Policygenius are some of the popular companies that use SonarQube, whereas Codacy is used by Codacy, DocEngage, and InstaGIS. SonarQube has a broader approval, being mentioned in 105 company stacks & 61 developers stacks; compared to Codacy, which is listed in 44 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.

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Pros of Codacy
Pros of SonarQube
  • 43
    Automated code review
  • 35
    Easy setup
  • 29
    Free for open source
  • 20
    Customizable
  • 18
    Helps reduce technical debt
  • 14
    Better coding
  • 13
    Best scala support
  • 11
    Faster Employee Onboarding
  • 10
    Duplication detector
  • 10
    Great UI
  • 9
    PHP integration
  • 6
    Python inspection
  • 5
    Tools for JVM analysis
  • 5
    Many integrations
  • 4
    Github Integration
  • 3
    Must-have for Java
  • 3
    Easy Travis integration
  • 3
    Items can be ignored in the UI
  • 3
    Asdasdas
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    Gitlab
  • 0
    Asdas
  • 26
    Tracks code complexity and smell trends
  • 16
    IDE Integration
  • 9
    Complete code Review
  • 1
    Difficult to deploy

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Cons of Codacy
Cons of SonarQube
  • 6
    No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git
  • 7
    Sales process is long and unfriendly
  • 7
    Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful
  • 1
    Does not integrate with Snyk

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What is Codacy?

Codacy automates code reviews and monitors code quality on every commit and pull request on more than 40 programming languages reporting back the impact of every commit or PR, issues concerning code style, best practices and security.

What is SonarQube?

SonarQube provides an overview of the overall health of your source code and even more importantly, it highlights issues found on new code. With a Quality Gate set on your project, you will simply fix the Leak and start mechanically improving.

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