Codacy vs GitHub Code Quality

Codacy is a cloud platform for engineering teams focused on code quality, security, and AI coding standards. Its AI Reviewer reviews pull requests with fix suggestions and summaries, and can identify false positives automatically. Listed security capabilities include SAST, software composition analysis, secret scanning, infrastructure-as-code scanning, DAST, and container image scanning. Team offers shared coding standards across 49 languages, integrations for GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, Jira, and Slack, and capacity for up to 30 developers and 100 private repositories with unlimited lines of code. Developer includes an IDE plugin and integrations for VSCode, JetBrains, and Cursor; the IDE extension comparison also names Windsurf. Developer costs nothing. Team costs $18 a year with yearly billing or $21 a month with monthly billing, billed per developer per month. A 14-day free trial is available without a credit card. Codacy states that it is GDPR compliant and has SOC 2 Type II compliance; its services run on AWS, with data in transit encrypted using TLS.

GitHub Code Quality has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.