> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.sonarsource.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-server/discovering/sonarqube-server-editions.md). # 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)](/sonarqube-server/server-update-and-maintenance/monitoring/lines-of-code.md). 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 | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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