A free SonarQube offering has long been at the center of the Sonar solution, helping individual developers and small teams ensure the quality and security of their code. Historically, this offering has been a self-managed Community Edition, requiring our users to install, maintain, store, and manually update themselves.
We’ve heard directly from you, our community, that the cost of maintaining your own instances – across financial and developer resources – has become increasingly high. To better support Sonar users, we’re announcing a new free tier of SonarQube, hosted in the cloud. This tier goes beyond our current community offering and gives individual developers and small teams many of the features of our commercial SonarQube offering.
This new SonarQube free tier enables users to scan private repositories (up to 50k lines of code), provides pull request (PR) analysis, supports 30 languages, frameworks, and IaC platforms, and allows up to 5 users. Sonar will also maintain its commitment to the Open Source community by providing free scanning for all public repositories, regardless of their size.
Here’s what else you’ll get with the new free tier –
- Automatic analysis: No extra configuration is required for most languages to receive the results of the first analysis. You can start improving your code in minutes.
- Deeper SAST: Helps developers identify deeply hidden vulnerabilities arising from the interaction between their first-party code and third-party dependencies.
- Advanced secrets detection: Prevent accidental inclusion of sensitive information from public, private, commercial, or enterprise services.
- Fast Upgrades: Seamless upgrade to Team and Enterprise as project needs grow.
The new free tier of SonarQube will be made available in December 2024. Sign up for SonarQube product news.