# GitGuardian vs SonarQube

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** GitGuardian

| Attribute | GitGuardian | SonarQube |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75.6 (71% (medium)) | 66.3 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 497 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 11,064 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform that scans code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and infrastructure for exposed credentials and machine identities, providing real-time detection with automated remediation and incident management workflows. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What is GitGuardian?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Growth and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"How much does GitGuardian cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does GitGuardian support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. GitGuardian can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Can GitGuardian be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 20 integrations for GitGuardian, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Azure DevOps, Jira, Slack and ServiceNow, plus 12 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What does GitGuardian integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for GitGuardian. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as GitGuardian not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/security-engineers","question":"What security certifications does GitGuardian have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"GitGuardian is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Where is GitGuardian available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A code verification system that scans source code repositories for bugs, security flaws, and quality problems, supporting both human-written and AI-generated code. It integrates directly into development workflows and CI/CD pipelines to provide real-time feedback and automated fix suggestions. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"What is SonarQube?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SonarQube offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $34 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"Is SonarQube free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"SonarQube supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"What platforms does SonarQube support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. SonarQube can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"Can SonarQube be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 17 integrations for SonarQube, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, CodeCatalyst, CircleCI, TravisCI and Jenkins, plus 9 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"What does SonarQube integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for SonarQube. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as SonarQube not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/","question":"What security certifications does SonarQube have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. SonarQube is published under the LGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube","question":"Is SonarQube open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"SonarQube is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU. The vendor is headquartered in Switzerland.","source":"https://www.sonarsource.com/jp/plans-and-pricing/","question":"Where is SonarQube available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform for discovering hardcoded secrets, API keys, and credentials across code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, container images, and collaboration tools. Provides incident remediation workflows, non-human identity governance, and supports cloud or self-hosted deployment. | A code quality and security analysis platform that uses static analysis techniques to automatically detect and help fix bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and compliance issues across multiple programming languages, with support for both human-written and AI-generated code. |
| features.capabilities | `{"sca":true,"sast":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"ide_plugin":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true}` | `{"sca":true,"dast":false,"sast":true,"sbom":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"ide_plugin":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"iac_scanning":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true,"license_compliance":true}` |
| integrations.count | 16 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Enterprise Server"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Container registries"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"CyberArk"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"AWS IAM","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure Entra ID","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cursor","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Gemini CLI","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace","native":true,"category":"distribution"}]` | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"CodeCatalyst"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"TravisCI"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"Codemagic"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"GitHub Advanced Security"},{"name":"Backstage"},{"name":"Compass"},{"name":"Cortex"},{"name":"Harness"},{"name":"Port"},{"name":"Bitbucket Pipelines","native":true,"category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"GitLab CI","native":true,"category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"Bamboo","native":true,"category":"ci_cd"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Cursor","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Copilot","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Gemini CLI","native":true,"category":"ide"},{"name":"Azure Pipelines","native":true,"category":"ci_cd"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | LGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Unlimited real-time scanning","Internal secrets monitoring","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Slack, Jira, ServiceNow integrations","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM","US and EU data hosting regions"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Community plan with core scanning capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"api_calls":"10k/month","repository_size":"12 GB","historical_scans":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","features":["Internal secrets monitoring across code, CI/CD, container registries","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Remediation playbooks and notifiers","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM, IP allowlisting, privacy mode","Dedicated Customer Success Manager"],"description":"Starter plan for teams scaling secrets governance with dedicated support","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["NHI Governance with vault coverage and identity inventory","AI-powered remediation with Smart Routing","Enterprise data sources including file storage and CI logs","Self-hosted deployment (Helm or KOTS)","12-month audit log retention","Honeytoken for preemptive threat detection"],"description":"Advanced plan for complex environments with NHI governance and self-hosted options","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Developer Endpoint Protection"}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid tiers (Growth, Enterprise) pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T13:30:58.383Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["45+ languages","basic code analysis"],"description":"Up to 50k lines of code for private projects, no credit card required, never expires","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lines_of_code":"50k"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"From $34/month for up to 100k LOC","features":["45+ languages","SSO and SCIM","portfolios","OWASP and MISRA reporting","advanced SAST and SCA","CVE detection","license policy","SBOM generation","zero data retention","BYOK with LLMs"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams requiring advanced security, governance, and compliance capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"lines_of_code":"100k"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"For large organizations requiring mission-critical deployments with advanced integrations and support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier up to 50k LOC. Team plan from $34/month. Enterprise pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:12:52.853Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":34,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":34,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 30 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.10.0.133078","date":"2026-10-12T10:01:25Z","type":"stable","version":"26.10.0.133078"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.9.0.129388","date":"2026-09-02T10:29:07Z","type":"stable","version":"26.9.0.129388"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.8.0.126808","date":"2026-08-05T07:17:56Z","type":"stable","version":"26.8.0.126808"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.7.0.124771","date":"2026-07-08T13:48:56Z","type":"stable","version":"26.7.0.124771"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.6.0.123539","date":"2026-06-03T09:56:25Z","type":"stable","version":"26.6.0.123539"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.5.0.122743b","date":"2026-05-19T12:59:25Z","type":"stable","version":"26.5.0.122743b"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.4.0.121862","date":"2026-04-10T13:17:33Z","type":"stable","version":"26.4.0.121862"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.3.0.120487","date":"2026-03-03T09:53:50Z","type":"stable","version":"26.3.0.120487"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.2.0.119303","date":"2026-02-04T10:07:42Z","type":"stable","version":"26.2.0.119303"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/26.1.0.118079","date":"2026-01-06T14:46:07Z","type":"stable","version":"26.1.0.118079"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.12.0.117093","date":"2025-12-23T15:00:10Z","type":"stable","version":"25.12.0.117093"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.11.0.114957","date":"2025-11-05T10:26:59Z","type":"stable","version":"25.11.0.114957"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.10.0.114319","date":"2025-10-03T13:33:44Z","type":"stable","version":"25.10.0.114319"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.9.0.112764","date":"2025-09-01T15:33:36Z","type":"stable","version":"25.9.0.112764"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.8.0.112029","date":"2025-08-06T13:33:07Z","type":"stable","version":"25.8.0.112029"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.7.0.110598","date":"2025-07-07T09:39:23Z","type":"stable","version":"25.7.0.110598"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.6.0.109173","date":"2025-06-02T14:19:56Z","type":"stable","version":"25.6.0.109173"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.5.0.107428","date":"2025-05-06T08:12:43Z","type":"stable","version":"25.5.0.107428"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.4.0.105899","date":"2025-04-07T13:22:08Z","type":"stable","version":"25.4.0.105899"},{"url":"https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube/releases/tag/25.3.0.104237","date":"2025-03-04T14:08:50Z","type":"stable","version":"25.3.0.104237"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.gitguardian.com/videos/webinar-devops-backups-vs-ransomware-best-security-and-compliance-practices | https://www.sonarsource.com/solutions/compliance-and-reporting/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.sonarsource.sonarqube%3Asonar-plugin-api&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

## Capabilities (DevSecOps Tools)

| Capability | GitGuardian | SonarQube |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Scan types** |  |  |
| SAST (static analysis) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DAST (dynamic analysis) | - | ✗ |
| SCA / dependency scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container / image scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC misconfiguration scanning | - | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| OSS licence compliance | - | ✓ |
| SBOM generation (SPDX/CycloneDX) | - | ✓ |
| **Remediation** |  |  |
| Automated fix / upgrade PRs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Prioritisation** |  |  |
| Reachability / exploitability prioritisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| First-class CI / pipeline integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-editor / IDE scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| OSS engine available | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:51:11.550Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*