AUSTIN and GENEVA – November 19, 2024 – To better serve the needs of the developer community, Sonar, the leading provider of code quality and security solutions, will release a new, free tier of SonarQube hosted in the cloud. The new offering goes beyond Sonar’s current community solution, providing individual developers and small teams with many commercial-grade SonarQube capabilities.
Sonar has consistently prioritized its free offering so that individual developers and small teams have a resource they can rely on to ensure the quality and security of their code. Historically, this offering has been a self-managed Community Edition, requiring users to install, maintain, store, and manually update themselves. The new, cloud-hosted free tier removes those barriers.
“Supporting the developer community is at the core of Sonar’s mission. The introduction of this new free tier takes the maintenance burden and cost off the shoulders of small teams and individual developers,” said Fabrice Bellingard, VP of Product at Sonar. “Our company was founded on the principle of empowering developers to write quality, secure code, and we will continue to deliver on that promise.”
Learn more about the new SonarQube free tier
The 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.
Additional featured capabilities of the new tier include:
- 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: Identify deeply hidden vulnerabilities arising from the interaction between 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.
This free tier is designed to make it even easier for developers to start using Sonar's commercial offerings when ready. It will be available in December 2024.
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About Sonar
Sonar helps prevent code quality and security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it—your internal team or genAI—resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable software.
Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by 7M+ developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
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