Codacy automates code quality and security scanning across 49 languages. See 2026 pricing plans, features, pros, cons and FAQs.
Category
DevOps
Pricing
Freemium: free plan for individual developers and open-source projects, paid per-developer monthly plans for teams, custom enterprise pricing, from Free Developer plan; Team plan from $18 per developer per month billed annually
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Last updated
July 19, 2026
Founded
2012
Headquarters
Lisbon, Portugal
What Codacy Does
Codacy connects to a team's GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories and automatically analyzes every commit and pull request, surfacing static analysis violations, security vulnerabilities, vulnerable dependencies, and hardcoded secrets without requiring engineers to configure individual linters for each language they use.
Results are aggregated into a single dashboard that tracks code coverage, duplication, complexity, and issue counts over time, and Codacy can enforce merge or quality gates that automatically block a pull request from merging if it introduces new violations or drops test coverage below a configured threshold.
AI Code Quality and Security Features
As AI coding assistants have become more common, Codacy has added features aimed specifically at reviewing AI-generated code, including an IDE plugin for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Cursor that scans code as it is typed and can automatically fix certain issues before a developer even commits.
On top of that, Codacy offers an AI Reviewer that comments directly on pull requests, along with an AI Inventory and AI Risk Hub intended to give engineering leaders visibility into where and how AI-generated code is entering their codebase.
Codacy Pricing Explained
Codacy's Developer plan is free forever for individual developers, while its Team plan, aimed at teams of up to roughly 30 developers, starts at 18 dollars per developer per month when billed annually and remains free for qualifying open-source projects.
Its Business plan targets organizations with 30 or more developers and uses custom, quote-based pricing that adds features such as unlimited private projects, daily re-scans against new CVEs, dynamic application security testing, container image scanning, and SSO and SAML support.
Key Features
Automated static analysis across 49 languages — Every commit and pull request is scanned for style, complexity, and error-prone code patterns across a wide range of programming languages.
Security scanning — Static application security testing, software composition analysis for vulnerable dependencies, and secrets detection are built into the platform.
Pull request merge and quality gates — Merges can be automatically blocked when new violations are introduced or coverage drops below a configured threshold.
IDE plugin with scan-as-you-type — A plugin for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Cursor scans code as it is written and can auto-fix certain issues before commit.
AI Reviewer — An AI-driven reviewer comments directly on pull requests to flag quality and security issues.
AI Inventory and AI Risk Hub — Gives engineering leaders visibility into where and how AI-generated code is entering the codebase.
Coverage and duplication tracking — Tracks code coverage, duplication, and complexity trends over time across projects.
Broad integrations — Connects with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, plus Jira and Slack for workflow and notification integration.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Broad language coverage across 49 languages under one unified dashboard
Combines code quality and security scanning in a single platform
Free forever tier for individual developers and open-source projects
IDE plugin catches issues before code is even committed
AI-specific guardrails address a growing need as AI-generated code increases
Cons
Business-tier features like DAST, container scanning, and SSO require custom pricing not published openly
Per-developer pricing can become expensive for larger teams once past the free or open-source tier
Aggregating many underlying linters can occasionally produce noisy or duplicate findings that need tuning
Team plan caps out at around 30 developers before the Business tier is required
Some advanced security features, like license scanning and daily CVE re-scans, are reserved for the top tier
Pricing
Developer $0 Free forever
Team From $18 per developer per month billed annually, or $21 per developer per month billed monthly Monthly or annual
Business Custom, contact sales Annual
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Codacy do?
It automatically scans source code for quality and security issues on every commit and pull request across 49 supported languages.
Is Codacy free?
Yes, Codacy offers a free forever Developer plan, and the Team plan is free for qualifying open-source projects.
What languages does Codacy support?
Codacy supports static analysis scanning across 49 programming languages.
Does Codacy scan for security vulnerabilities?
Yes, it includes static application security testing, software composition analysis, and secrets detection.
How much does Codacy cost for a team?
The Team plan starts at 18 dollars per developer per month billed annually, or 21 dollars per developer per month billed monthly.
Does Codacy integrate with GitHub?
Yes, along with GitLab and Bitbucket, plus Jira and Slack integrations on paid plans.
Who founded Codacy and when?
Codacy was founded in 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal, by Jaime Jorge and Joao Caxaria.
Does Codacy have AI-specific features?
Yes, including an AI Reviewer, scan-as-you-type auto-fix in its IDE plugin, and an AI Inventory and AI Risk Hub.