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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.
Pros of Codacy
- Automated code review43
- Easy setup35
- Free for open source29
- Customizable20
- Helps reduce technical debt18
- Better coding14
- Best scala support13
- Faster Employee Onboarding11
- Duplication detector10
- Great UI10
- PHP integration9
- Python inspection6
- Tools for JVM analysis5
- Many integrations5
- Github Integration4
- Must-have for Java3
- Easy Travis integration3
- Items can be ignored in the UI3
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- Gitlab2
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Pros of SonarQube
- Tracks code complexity and smell trends26
- IDE Integration16
- Complete code Review9
- Difficult to deploy1
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Cons of Codacy
- No support for private Git or Azure DevOps git6
Cons of SonarQube
- Sales process is long and unfriendly7
- Paid support is poor, techs arrogant and unhelpful7
- Does not integrate with Snyk1