What Is Codacy? Features, Pricing & Alternatives

Overview

Codacy is an automated code review and code security platform that runs static analysis, SAST, software composition analysis, secrets detection and coverage tracking on every pull request and reports results as comments and status checks.^[11] It has added an AI Reviewer and AI governance products, AI Guardrails, AI Inventory and AI Risk Hub, aimed at organisations whose developers use AI coding assistants.^[11] A free-forever developer tier provides CLI and IDE plugins for VS Code, JetBrains and Cursor with local quality and security scans across 38 programming languages and agent hand-off for automatic fixes.^[11] The Team plan, for teams of up to 30 developers, starts at US$18 per developer per month on yearly billing or US$21 monthly, and Codacy is free for open-source projects.^[11] Codacy competes with SonarQube on rule-based analysis but prices per developer rather than per line of code, which suits large codebases maintained by small teams. Its Team plan’s 30-developer cap means larger organisations move to quoted Business pricing.

What Codacy does

Static analysis in 38 languages
SAST, SCA and secrets detection
Coverage tracking
AI Reviewer
IDE plugins for VS Code, JetBrains and Cursor
AI Guardrails for assistant-generated code

Codacy pricing

Developer: free forever (IDE and CLI). Team (up to 30 developers): from US$18 per developer per month yearly or US$21 monthly; free trial. Free for open-source projects. Larger plans quoted.