# Snyk vs SonarQube

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Snyk

| Attribute | Snyk | SonarQube |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 71.7 (75% (high)) | 66.3 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 10,449 | 497 |
| adoption.github_stars | 5,679 | 11,064 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 671,447 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An integrated scanning and remediation platform that identifies vulnerabilities across application code, open-source dependencies, container images, and infrastructure configurations, with AI-powered analysis to accelerate detection and fix guidance. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What is Snyk?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snyk is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $25 per developer 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://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Is Snyk free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snyk supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What platforms does Snyk support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Snyk can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Can Snyk be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 48 integrations for Snyk, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira, Slack, AWS CodePipeline and Azure Pipelines, plus 40 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What does Snyk integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Snyk. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Snyk not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://snyk.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Snyk have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Snyk is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/snyk","question":"Is Snyk open source?","confidence":0.85},{"answer":"Snyk is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Where is Snyk 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}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A security platform that scans code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure for vulnerabilities while providing specialized capabilities for validating AI-generated code and supporting development agent security. | 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,"dast":true,"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}` | `{"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 | 109 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Jira Cloud"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"AWS CodePipeline"},{"name":"Azure Pipelines"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"TeamCity"},{"name":"Terraform Cloud"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker Hub"},{"name":"Amazon ECR"},{"name":"Azure ACR"},{"name":"Quay"},{"name":"JFrog Artifactory"},{"name":"Harbor"},{"name":"Nexus"},{"name":"IntelliJ"},{"name":"PyCharm"},{"name":"PhpStorm"},{"name":"CLion"},{"name":"GoLand"},{"name":"RubyMine"},{"name":"RustRover"},{"name":"Android Studio"},{"name":"Eclipse"},{"name":"DataGrip"},{"name":"AppCode"},{"name":"Rider"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Tabnine"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"Qodo"},{"name":"Amazon Q Dev"},{"name":"Google Gemini Code Assist"},{"name":"TabbyML"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"SentinelOne"},{"name":"Sysdig"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Backstage"},{"name":"Port"},{"name":"OpsLevel"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Copilot","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Codex","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac"},{"name":"npm","native":true,"category":"package_manager"},{"name":"GitHub Container Registry","native":true,"category":"container","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket Cloud","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket Server","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Buildkite","native":true,"category":"ci","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pulumi","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitGuardian","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bright Security","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"StackHawk","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Snyk API","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"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 | TypeScript | Java |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | LGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["SCA (Open Source) scanning","SAST (Code) scanning","Infrastructure as Code scanning","Container scanning","Real-time code scanning","IDE integrations","CLI access","Source code manager integrations"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individual developers and small teams with core scanning capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"5","snyk_code_tests":"100/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$25/month","features":["All Free plan features","Increased test limits per product","Jira integration","Next business day support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For development teams up to 10 developers with increased testing limits","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"100","snyk_code_tests":"1,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Pre-purchase credits at $1/credit","features":["All capabilities via credit system","AI Pentesting","Coding Agent security","Premium support & services"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"active contributor","amount":1,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"open source","amount":0.33,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"iac","amount":0.33,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"secrets","amount":0.66,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"assessment"},"kind":"per_unit","amount":4000,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Credit-based platform with flexible consumption across all capabilities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free plan available. Team from $25/month. Enterprise with credit-based pricing at $1 per credit.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://snyk.io/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:24:30.478Z","startingPrice":{"amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"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 | mid | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":25,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":34,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | 30 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| 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.scorecard | 5.2 | 4.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://snyk.io/platform/security-intelligence/ | https://www.sonarsource.com/solutions/compliance-and-reporting/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":4,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=snyk&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"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 | Snyk | 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 2026-10-16T05:27:16.695Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*