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Codacy is a SaaS code quality and security platform that scans repositories and pull requests for quality issues, security vulnerabilities, duplication and coverage, with a free IDE extension and plans for teams.

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Introduction

Codacy is a hosted platform that enforces code quality, security and, in its current positioning, AI coding standards from one place. It connects to Git providers, runs static analysis on every commit and pull request, and reports issues, duplication, complexity and coverage on a dashboard and as pull request feedback.

Its site says it is trusted by more than 15,000 organisations. Gates can block merges when new issues or coverage drops exceed thresholds, and security features cover SAST, secrets and dependency scanning. A free IDE extension brings local scanning to individual developers.

In the quality loop Codacy is a hosted quality gate on pull requests.

Features

  1. PR analysis: Comments and status checks on pull requests.
  2. Quality gates: Block merges on new issues or coverage drops.
  3. Security scanning: SAST, secrets and dependency checks.
  4. Coverage: Track test coverage over time.
  5. Dashboards: Repository and organisation metrics.
  6. IDE extension: Free local scanning for developers.

Pros

  1. Fast setup: Connect a Git provider and get a full scan within minutes, per the vendor.

Cons

  1. Paid for private repos: Private repositories need a paid plan after the trial.
  2. Hosted: Code is analysed in Codacy’s cloud.
  3. Rule tuning: Default rules can be noisy on older code.
  1. Sign up with GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket.
  2. Add repositories; Codacy runs an initial scan.
  3. Configure quality gates and enable pull request status checks.
  4. Upload coverage from CI with the Codacy coverage reporter.

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Pricing

Codacy’s pricing page lists a free Developer plan for individual IDE scanning, free use for open-source projects, and a 14-day free trial (no credit card) of paid plans for private repositories.

  1. Teams wanting a hosted quality and security gate without running servers.
  2. Open-source projects, which Codacy says are free forever.

Conclusion

Codacy is a mature hosted option for code quality and security checks on pull requests.

Compare its gates and pricing with SonarQube Cloud and DeepSource.

On CheckOps, Codacy is filed under the Release & CI gates and Security testing stages. Related tools listed here include SonarQube, MegaLinter, Super-Linter, Qlty, DeepSource and reviewdog. Before standardising on one, compare recent maintenance activity, the pricing model as your usage grows, and the integrations you rely on today. Information on this page was verified against the official website, documentation and repository on 11 November 2026.

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