SonarQube Server editions

SonarQube Server is available in the following editions: Developer, Enterprise, and Data Center.

All editions are licensed per instance per year based on Lines of Code (LOC). You pay for a LOC capacity at the instance level.

Which edition to choose

• Developer Edition:

  • For: Small teams / business units running a single instance.

  • Focus: Adds branch/PR analysis, more languages, and stronger security on top of SonarQube Community Build.

• Enterprise Edition:

  • For: Larger organizations with many teams and projects.

  • Focus: Centralized governance, portfolios, compliance/security reporting, and enterprise DevOps/IdP integrations.

• Data Center Edition:

  • For: Very large/mission-critical deployments needing High Availability (HA) and horizontal scale.

  • Focus: High availability, redundancy, autoscaling in Kubernetes, and resilience under heavy load.

Feature matrix

Feature	Developer	Enterprise	Data Center
Code analysis
Languages	Adds C, C++, Obj-C, Swift, ABAP, T-SQL, PL/SQL on top of SonarQube Community languages.	All Developer languages plus Apex, COBOL, JCL, PL/I, RPG, VB6.	All Developer languages plus Apex, COBOL, JCL, PL/I, RPG, VB6.
Branch analysis
Pull request analysis
Custom quality profiles
Custom quality gates
Prioritized rules (in quality gate definition)
AI code analysis
AI Code Assurance (Code quality assurance for AI generated code)
Security analysis
Injection vulnerabilities detection
Injection vulnerabilities detection: security engine custom configuration
Secret detection: Custom secret patterns
Advanced security analysis
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
Advanced SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
AI- powered code remediation
AI CodeFix (AI-generated fix suggestions)
Management reporting
Portfolios
Security reports
Project PDF reports
Regulatory reports
Applications (aggregation of multiple projects)
System security
Single Sign-On (SAML)
Auto-provisioning (SCIM)
Audit logs
Maximum lifetime for tokens
Inactive session timeout (configurable)
Active session timeout (configurable)
DevOps platforms: GitHub, Bitbucket Data Center, Bitbucket Cloud, GitLab, Azure DevOps
User authentication (with automatic provisioning for GitHub and GitLab)
Security issues report in GitHub and Gitlab
Quality gate status report on pull requests; Preventing merge when quality gate fails
Monorepo integration
Multiple DevOps Platform instances
Integration with external applications
Jira Cloud
Slack
JFrog Evidence Collection
Webhooks

Related pages

• SonarQube Server vs SonarQube Cloud