Codacy vs Impact Code Analysis

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.

Impact Code Analysis combines code quality review, security scanning and architecture visualization for analyzed repositories. It reports a score from 0 to 100, an A–F grade, ranked issues, a project wiki and a dependency map. The platform supports 29 languages using tree-sitter parsing. Security analysis includes checks for SQL injection, XSS and hardcoded credentials, with more than 50 rules mapped to CWE numbers and OWASP Top 10 categories. It connects to GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket and can send notifications through Slack, Teams or email. Claude-based issue explanations, suggested fix synthesis and pull request review mode are also listed. Deployment options include web, API and self-hosted offerings. The free plan costs nothing and covers one public repository, one user, one project and five rescans per project. The separate free 14-day trial has the same listed user, project and rescan limits. Paid plans start with Starter at $149 a month, with a one-year minimum commitment. Business and Enterprise list Docker deployment options.