User group concept
To manage user permissions more easily in SonarQube Cloud, the members of your organization are managed through groups.
To manage permissions more easily, the members of an organization are managed through groups. The following applies:
Permissions can be set at both user and group levels.
A user can belong to several groups within an organization.
A user’s permissions are the sum of all the permissions granted to them individually plus all the permissions granted by the groups they are a member of.
Built-in groups are added to each organization. Starting in Team plan, you can define and add custom groups to your organization.
Built-in groups
When a new organization is created, two built-in groups are automatically created for the organization:
Members group: This group contains all DevOps platform (DOP) users of the organization. Any DOP user added to the organization is automatically added to this group. See DevOps platform authentication for more details.
Owners group: This group is intended to include the organization admins. The organization’s creator, if they use a DOP user account, is automatically added to this group. By default, members of this group have full control over the organization.
You can never delete the Members group, or change its name and composition. Starting in Team plan, you can:
Change the permissions of the Members group.
Manage the Owners group: change its name, composition, and permissions; or delete it.
The figure below shows the three groups related by default to an organization.

Built-in group permissions on Free plan
This section shows the permissions assigned to the built-in groups in a Free plan organization.
Related pages
Setting the project-related permissions of a group:
Using permission templates (through templates)
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