Our take
Pick Codecov if repo teams who will stay on Developer Free (open-source unlimited, or 250 private uploads / month for a single user) while they open a first Coverage report, then buy Team at $5 / user / month (10 users, 2,500 uploads) or Pro at $12 / user / month. Pick SonarQube Cloud if repo teams who will stay on Free forever (private projects up to 50k LOC, or public OSI-licensed repos) while they open a first
Best for
Codecov Line coverage you start at $0
SonarQube Cloud Quality-gate health you start at $0
Free plan
Codecov $0 · open-source unlimited uploads, or a single-user team with small private repos and up to 250 coverage uploads / month
SonarQube Cloud $0 · sonarQube Team Plan free for private projects up to 50k LOC. No card, no expiry. Public OSI-licensed repos get SonarQube for OSS free forever
Lowest paid
Codecov Team $5
SonarQube Cloud Gitar $20/mo yearly
Runs where
Codecov Hosted
SonarQube Cloud Hosted
Watch out
Codecov Developer private uploads cap at 250 / month
SonarQube Cloud Free private analysis stops at 50k LOC
Last checked
Codecov 2026-10-23 · about.codecov.io/pricing
SonarQube Cloud 2026-10-23 · sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing
repo teams who will stay on Developer Free (open-source unlimited, or 250 private uploads / month for a single user) while they open a first Coverage report, then buy Team at $5 / user / month (10 users, 2,500 uploads) or Pro at $12 / user / month.
Read the Codecov pagerepo teams who will stay on Free forever (private projects up to 50k LOC, or public OSI-licensed repos) while they open a first Overview, then buy Team at $34 / month for up to 100k LOC.
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