Qodana vs QualityGate

Qodana analyzes code from the IDE through CI to find code smells, duplication, complexity, vulnerabilities, and license issues. Its baselines mark findings as new, unchanged, or resolved, and quality gates can block CI/CD pipelines based on issue counts, severity, coverage, or vulnerable and license-incompatible dependencies. Taint analysis identifies risks such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, command injection, and path traversal. Qodana supports most JetBrains IDEs, along with VS Code, Visual Studio, and Cursor. Listed CI integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab, TeamCity, Jenkins, and Azure Pipelines; Docker images can run in CI/CD pipelines. Self-Hosted runs within an organization’s infrastructure with Docker or Kubernetes deployment options. The Community plan is free and includes one team and 30 days of detailed history. Ultimate costs $5.00 per active contributor per month billed annually at $60.00; Ultimate Plus costs $15.00 per active contributor per month billed annually at $180.00. Licensing uses active contributors over the past 90 days, with a minimum of three.

QualityGate continuously measures source-code quality and development-team performance, with analysis run inside the customer’s infrastructure and only results uploaded to its servers. Its current static analyzers support Java, C# and JavaScript, and can analyze code stored in Git or TFS. Metrics cover size, complexity, inheritance, coupling, cohesion, documentation and duplication; analyzers also identify hundreds of coding issues, including security vulnerabilities and possible runtime exceptions. Dataflow analysis and symbolic code execution can find vulnerabilities listed in the OWASP Top Ten. QualityGate scores maintainability on a ten-grade scale against benchmarks that include other customers’ systems. It checks every check-in on a selected branch and can fit into sprints, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines. Results are queryable through a REST API, and users can build custom quality models from more than one hundred metrics. The agent runs as a Docker image on Linux or a Windows service. It is available on Linux, Windows, web, API and self-hosted deployments, with a free plan and free trial.