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commit a1b2c3d - author: Oliver Wakefield-Smith - verified 23 Sep 2026
SonarQube: SonarQube Team from $34/month for up to 100k LOCsrc. Per-LOC on both Sonar lines, with Gitar AI Code Review alongside it per user. Deployment: saas, self-hosted. Platforms: github, gitlab, bitbucket, azure-devops. No BYOK. Rule-based SAST spine metered by lines of code, with Gitar AI Code Review sold alongside it per user.
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1+Cheapest published: SonarQube Team from $34/month for up to 100k LOCsrc
2+Model: Per-LOC on both Sonar lines, with Gitar AI Code Review alongside it per user
3+Free tier: Free forever for private projects up to 50k LOC, no card and no expiry. Public OSI-licensed repos get SonarQube for OSS and Gitar AI Code Review for OSS with the paid Pro feature set.
4+Enterprise: Enterprise: custom pricing, positioned at over 50 developers. SonarQube Server Developer / Enterprise / Data Center editions are licensed per instance per year by LOC.
@@ deployment + platform coverage @@hard constraints
1Deployments: SaaSSelf-hosted
2Git platforms: github, gitlab, bitbucket, azure-devops
3-BYOK: no - vendor owns the model bill
@@ verdict @@opinion
1Right call for orgs that already self-host SonarQube Server and want AI augmentation rather than a generative-first replacement.
@@ buyer fit @@who this is for
1+Enterprises with existing SonarQube Server estates
2+Per-LOC pricing axis aligns better than per-seat
3+Regulated industries needing the SonarSource brand on procurement
@@ watch out @@what to verify
1-Gitar AI Code Review is a separate line at $20/user/mo, not bundled into the LOC price
2-Three products on three pricing axes: LOC for Cloud, per-instance LOC for Server, per-user for Gitar
3-PR-comment generation is not the headline feature
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commit aabbcc1-OWS-2026-09-23
Re-verified SonarQube pricing
Our $11/user/mo was wrong on both the figure and the unit. SonarQube Cloud Team is not per-user: you pay upfront for a maximum number of private lines of code, starting at $34 monthly for up to 100k LOC. The free tier has also widened from public repos only to private projects up to 50k LOC. Separately, SonarSource now sells Gitar AI Code Review at $20/user/mo billed annually on the Core plan, included in Enterprise on outcome-based per-PR pricing rather than per seat. That has replaced AI Code Assurance as the AI line on the pricing page.
@@ footnote @@aux
1Two product lines with different pricing axes, and now a third product on a third axis. Sonar's own rule-based analysis is LOC-metered; Gitar, the agentic reviewer that writes the fix and iterates until CI passes, is per-user on Core and per-PR on Enterprise. If you are comparing seat prices across this category, Sonar will not fit the column.
@@ cross-links @@related
1/vs/sonarqube-vs-deepsource - SonarQube vs DeepSource
2/calculator - model your team
3/scorecard - all 19 ranked