Agentic Index
Baz vs Sonar (2026)
Both vendors last verified
Baz and Sonar both check code before it ships, and they intervene at opposite ends of the work. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Sonar is the verification layer, a standard for automated review that checks what was written, with a free tier and published cloud plans. Baz reviews, governs and secures across the lifecycle, and its distinguishing piece is Planner, a pre code gateway catching risky plans before code is written, plus a Figma and Jira specification validator, free trial through the GitHub Marketplace. Catching a bad plan is cheaper than catching the bug it produces, but only Sonar has the incumbency your build pipeline probably already assumes.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, Baz clears the bar and Sonar does not. Baz documents all five merge loop capabilities in full; Sonar does not document observability and auditability in full, nor human oversight and guardrails. 3 of the 96 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Baz and Sonar are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Baz if
- Reviewing the plan before code exists is a genuinely earlier intervention than review.
- Validating implementations against Figma designs and Jira tickets closes a gap nobody else covers.
- Agent written code is arriving faster than humans can review it, and governance is the answer.
Choose Sonar if
- Sonar is already the standard in your pipeline, and consolidating on it beats adding a tool.
- A free tier and published pricing make this adoptable without a purchase decision.
- Verification of what was actually written is the control you trust most.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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BazIntegrations & Tool Calling Integrations cover GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps for source control; Jira, Linear, Monday, Shortcut, Azure DevOps Boards, YouTrack and Fibery for tickets; Figma for design; Notion and Google Docs for knowledge; Datadog and Sentry for the SRE agent; Slack for chat; and preview environments and a sandbox for running the app. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/basics/integrationsread 2026-09-29 |
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SonarIntegrations & Tool Calling Integration spans IDEs through SonarQube for IDE plugins, CI and source platforms including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and Jenkins, and agent runtimes through the MCP server, which connects Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent, Kiro, VS Code, Windsurf and Zed, with Devin and Antigravity on the integrations list. Dedicated SonarQube plugins ship for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity and GitHub Copilot CLI, and a CLI with a sonar integrate command plus hooks cover scripted and agentic environments. Gitar reviews pull requests on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps including self hosted instances, reads CI from GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, CircleCI, Buildkite, Bitrise, Harness, TeamCity and Jenkins, and connects Jira, Linear and Slack. Sourcesonarsource.com, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and sonarsource.com/products/sonar-vortexread 2026-10-28 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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BazWorkflow Orchestration Multiple agents divide the work on a change: SDLC agents (Fixer, Merger, SRE, Skill Maintainer) run independently in sandboxed environments alongside a set of individually scoped review agents, Merger decides after CI passes whether a pull request is safe to merge, and Planner produces an implementation plan that goes through approval before code is written. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelog 2026-07-01read 2026-09-29 |
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SonarWorkflow Orchestration The Agent Centric Development Cycle defines a fixed continuous three stage loop applied to every AI assisted change. Guide provides project context to agents before they write, Verify analyzes the resulting code, and Solve fixes what verification found. Sonar Vortex runs Guide and Verify inside the agent's inner loop, the Remediation Agent chains detection, fix, re verification and opening a pull request, and Gitar reviews a pull request, commits fixes, reads the CI result, diagnoses failures and iterates until the pipeline is green, under merge rules the team writes in plain language. Sonar ships these loops as defined, and customers do not compose their own workflows on them. There is no multi agent coordination, branching logic, customer defined stages or agent handoff. Sourcesonarsource.com, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and docs.sonarsource.com/agent-centric-development-cycleread 2026-10-28 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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BazTriggers & Channel Coverage Reviews run automatically when pull requests open across GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps, Merger runs after CI passes, and Skills Maintainer can scan on a schedule every three days, weekly or every two weeks. Comment commands, the CLI and the MCP server add runs on demand. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-08-10 and docs/agents/baz-agentsread 2026-09-29 |
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SonarTriggers & Channel Coverage Analysis runs automatically on CI builds and pull requests through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps and Jenkins, Gitar reviews when a pull or merge request opens and reacts when CI fails, and the Remediation Agent starts on an automated backlog remediation schedule, from Fix with Agent on the Issues page, or from Fix automatically in a failed quality gate comment on a pull request. Sonar Vortex runs inside a coding agent's loop, and developers and agents invoke analysis through IDE plugins, the CLI and MCP tool calls. Sourcesonarsource.com/products/gitar, docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/issues/with-ai-features and sonarsource.com/products/sonar-vortexread 2026-10-28 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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BazKnowledge Grounding & RAG Reviewers ground on the organization's repositories through API endpoints for file search, text grep and cross repository architecture search. They also take product intent from ticketing, Figma, Notion and Google Docs integrations, and the Spec Reviewer checks the code against it. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/api-keys, docs/basics/integrations and docs/agents/baz-agents; baz.ai/docs/basics/integrationsread 2026-10-25 |
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SonarKnowledge Grounding & RAG Sonar Vortex injects project context and constraints before an agent writes its first line, drawing on the repository map, architecture rules, security policies, team conventions, approved libraries and API contracts, and exposes code architecture search, call flows, coding guidelines and dependency checks through the MCP server and the CLI's sonar integrate command. Analysis is grounded in full project context together with the organization's own quality profiles, rule sets and architecture standards, SonarQube Architecture enforces architectural standards as a distinct product, and Gitar reviews with full codebase context plus organization instructions and Jira context. Sonar Vortex is sold as a package tier through sales. Sourcesonarsource.com/products/sonar-vortex, docs.sonarsource.com/agent-centric-development-cycle and sonarsource.com/products/gitarread 2026-10-28 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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BazMemory & State Persistence Reviewer Memory stores a memory in a reviewer's own memory bank when similar feedback is given more than once, and updates that reviewer's prompt. Each memory can be switched on or off and shows its sources. An organization setting can hold new memories for admin approval before they go live, and admins control who may contribute. No lifetime, expiry or delete path is stated, so a disabled memory stays in the bank. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/working-with-agentsread 2026-10-25 |
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SonarMemory & State Persistence Analysis state persists between runs. The baseline from the last full project scan carries forward so subsequent analyses evaluate new code against it, issue history and dispositions such as accepted or won't fix persist per project, and quality profiles, gates and Gitar's merge rules are stored and applied consistently across runs. That state belongs to the project and its analysis, and nothing in it carries learned context, corrections or preferences across agent sessions. Sourcedocs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/ai-capabilities and sonarsource.com/products/gitarread 2026-10-28 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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BazHuman Oversight & Guardrails Plans generated by Planner go through a dedicated approval workflow before implementation starts, and teammates can review plans together and track revisions, so a person approves before the agent's plan is built. Merger returns a merge, reject or escalate verdict after CI passes and labels the pull request; it approves only when a rule turns on auto approve, and merges only when configured to act autonomously, otherwise the verdict is left for a human reviewer to act on. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelog 2026-07-01 and 2026-09-24read 2026-10-28 |
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SonarHuman Oversight & Guardrails Oversight comes from gates and rules rather than an approval step inside Sonar. Quality gates the organization defines block merges that fail deterministic checks, AI CodeFix is switched on by an admin for all or selected projects, the Remediation Agent proposes its fixes as a new pull request for the customer to review on its own code host, and Gitar follows merge rules written in plain language that set what it reviews, what it may fix, what it must escalate, what blocks a merge and when it can approve, with fixes committed automatically or on demand. Review of the agent's work happens in the customer's own merge process, and there is no step where a person approves an agent action before Sonar executes it. Sourcesonarsource.com/products/gitar and docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/issues/with-ai-featuresread 2026-10-28 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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BazSecurity, Identity & Governance Baz states that it is SOC 2 certified, Enterprise adds SSO, centralized controls and VPC deployment, and API keys are limited to a whitelist of endpoints under the creator's permissions. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/security-privacy-and-compliance, baz.ai/pricing and docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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SonarSecurity, Identity & Governance At the company level Sonar maintains ISO 27001:2022 certification and a SOC 2 Type II attestation for all products and services, both available from its trust center with the SOC 2 report under NDA, and Gitar states SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and zero data retention agreements with its LLM providers. SonarQube Enterprise adds SSO with SCIM provisioning, organization, portfolio, project and enterprise permissions with permission templates, IP allow lists, customer managed encryption keys with rotation, zero data retention and bring your own key for LLMs, and audit logs of sign ins and permission changes. Sourcesonarsource.com/trust-center (read 29 September 2026), sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/administering-sonarcloud/enterprise-securityread 2026-10-28 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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BazObservability & Auditability Session Logs let a team inspect how each run was triggered, where it executed, its status, the major stages it completed, its outcome and its cost, and the API records MCP session events. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-06-01 and docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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SonarObservability & Auditability Every Remediation Agent run is recorded on an Agent activity page with its status and duration, what started it (the backlog schedule, Fix with Agent or Fix automatically on a failed gate), where it worked and a link to its pull request. Gitar analytics dashboards report time to merge, review cycle length, CI failure patterns, flake rates and fix rates across repositories. Enterprise audit logs, readable through an API, record sign ins, user, group and permission changes and key rotation events, and deterministic findings trace to a named rule and code location. Nothing records each step or tool call an agent made within a run. Sourcedocs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/managing-your-projects/issues/with-ai-features, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and /administering-sonarcloud/enterprise-security/audit-logsread 2026-10-28 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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BazDeployment & Data Residency Private Mode, on Pro and Enterprise, keeps source code stored only in the customer's own VPC through a file system service pod on AWS EKS, with analysis on Baz infrastructure reading it transiently. Enterprise adds self hosted deployment in the customer's own cloud, and private application review can run the sandbox inside the customer's Kubernetes as a limited preview. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/private-mode and baz.ai/pricingread 2026-10-25 |
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SonarDeployment & Data Residency SonarQube Server is a self managed deployment priced per instance and installable in the customer's own environment, and since SonarQube Server 2026.5 LTA, generally available on 29 September 2026, Sonar Vortex, the Remediation Agent and the Hunter Agent run on self managed Enterprise and Data Center editions, including on premises, air gapped and VPC restricted environments, beside SonarQube Cloud as SaaS and a free IDE plugin. The MCP Server installs as an extension on SonarQube Server 2026.3 and later, so the customer's own server proxies agent tools at its own /mcp endpoint, or self hosts standalone through the official container image. Gitar retains no code after processing, supports bring your own Anthropic key, and offers Enterprise customers a regional cloud instance, in beta for the EU, Singapore, Australia and Japan. Sourcesonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonarqube-server-2026-5-lta-release, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-mcp-serverread 2026-10-28 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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BazPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Baz ships named built in agents with their own jobs, among them Fixer, Spec Reviewer and an AI SRE agent. Five core review agents (Code Correctness, Code Quality, Basic Security Patterns, Advanced Security and AI Coding Guidelines) replaced eleven narrower reviewers in October 2026, and teams can build customized agents on top. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/agents/baz-agents and baz.ai/changelogread 2026-10-25 |
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SonarPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Sonar ships prebuilt rule sets and quality profiles covering more than forty languages, maintained by Sonar and adopted by the customer as defaults or customized, together with prebuilt quality gates and architecture standards, and compliance rule mappings for OWASP, CWE and STIG, PCI DSS and CASA. Its named agents each do their own job: Gitar reviews and fixes pull requests, the Remediation Agent clears backlog issues, the Hunter Agent hunts access control, business logic and authentication flaws, and Sonar Vortex guides and verifies inside the agent loop. Dedicated SonarQube plugins ship for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity and GitHub Copilot CLI, and Agent Apps for GitHub package the SonarQube agent for direct installation on the platform. Sourcesonarsource.com, docs.sonarsource.com/agent-centric-development-cycle/developer-tools/agent-plugins and sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing; docs.sonarsource.com/agent-centric-development-cycleread 2026-10-28 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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BazModel Flexibility & Routing Baz's agentic reviewers run on OpenAI's GPT-5-Codex with Anthropic Sonnet 4.5 reflections, and Baz chooses the models, with no customer model selection, bring your own key or local model option offered. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2025-10-16read 2026-09-29 |
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SonarModel Flexibility & Routing For the Remediation Agent, a SonarQube Cloud organization admin adds the organization's own OpenAI or Anthropic key, up to three. A SonarQube Server admin can instead point it at Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock or any OpenAI compatible endpoint, so the customer chooses the model maker, and SonarQube Server 2026.5 LTA adds centralized LLM governance covering Anthropic and OpenAI models. Gitar optionally runs on the customer's own Anthropic key. Sourcedocs.sonarsource.com remediation-agent and administer-remediation-agent, the 2026.5 LTA press release and sonarsource.com/products/gitarread 2026-10-28 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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BazAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility API keys call the Baz REST API (v2, under /api/v2/ with an x-api-key header) and the Baz MCP server for scripts, CI and unattended agents, with twelve endpoints covering reviewer configuration, review discussions, repository search, plan creation and versioning, plan comments and linking pull requests to plans. Sourcebaz.ai/docs/account/api-keysread 2026-09-29 |
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SonarAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The SonarQube MCP Server, open source and free, connects an AI coding agent to SonarQube's code quality and security data, with tools to analyze code, retrieve issues, check quality gates, inspect security hotspots and measure coverage. It works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent, Kiro, VS Code, Windsurf and Zed, and powers the SonarQube agent through Agent Apps for GitHub. SonarQube Cloud includes a hosted MCP server needing no local setup, and on SonarQube Server 2026.3 and later it installs as an extension so the server proxies tools at a single /mcp endpoint. A SonarQube CLI runs analysis from any terminal, CI pipeline or coding agent and its sonar integrate command sets up the agent context without manual MCP configuration, alongside IDE plugins, hooks and plugins for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Antigravity and GitHub Copilot CLI. The license is the SONAR Source Available License v1.0. Sourcedocs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-mcp-server, sonarsource.com/products/sonar-vortex and sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricingread 2026-10-28 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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BazTesting, Debugging & Optimization Prompt Playground lets a team test a review agent's behavior on real change requests before rollout and tune its tone, scope and strictness without pushing untested agents to production, and Evaluations report reviewer performance with usage metrics and comment tracking. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2025-05-22 and 2025-07-29read 2026-09-29 |
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SonarTesting, Debugging & Optimization Deterministic rule based static analysis checks code against quality and security standards across more than forty languages, spanning SAST, secrets detection, software composition analysis and architecture enforcement, tracking test coverage and re verifying every fix before merge. Sonar Vortex brings verification into the agent's inner loop so agents check their own work as they write, AI CodeFix suggests LLM generated fixes for found issues under organization admin control, the Remediation Agent fixes issues and opens verified pull requests, and Gitar reviews each pull request, commits fixes, reads the CI result, root causes failures and iterates until the pipeline is green. Sonar reports 44 percent fewer AI caused outages and up to 8 percent lower agent token usage, and up to 36 percent fewer tokens on refactoring with Vortex, from its own survey and research. Sourcesonarsource.com, sonarsource.com/products/gitar and sonarsource.com/products/sonar-vortex; docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/ai-capabilitiesread 2026-10-28 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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BazBrowser & Computer Use Spec Reviewer clones the repository, restores dependencies, runs the setup and start commands, waits for the application to become healthy and opens it in a browser to check the built experience against the specification. Sourcebaz.ai/changelog 2026-07-29read 2026-09-29 |
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SonarBrowser & Computer Use The products operate on source code within developer, CI and agent environments through programmatic interfaces throughout, namely static analysis of repositories, MCP tool calls, IDE plugins, a CLI, CI integrations and source platform APIs, and Gitar reads CI results through the pipeline's own API. There is no browser control, screenshot capture, visual verification or operation of software lacking a programmatic interface. Sourcedocs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/ai-capabilities, docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-mcp-server and sonarsource.com/products/gitarread 2026-10-28 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Pro from $30 per active developer per month, plus Engineering Work Credits at $0.01 each for advanced agents. Enterprise is priced on contact. | SonarQube Cloud Team starts at $34 a month for up to 100k lines of code with Advanced Security, for under 50 developers, with a 14 day trial; free up to 50k lines of code, never expires. Gitar AI Code Review is $20 per user a month billed annually on Core and $40 on Pro, with a 14 day Pro trial. Enterprise is custom, with Gitar priced per PR. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Per active developer per month for access and standard review, plus Engineering Work Credits at $0.01 each for advanced agent sessions. | Lines of code analyzed for SonarQube: Cloud tiers and Server licenses, priced per instance per year, both follow the size of the codebase. Gitar bills per user per month on Core and Pro and per pull request on Enterprise. |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Baz
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· Agent capability
A dedicated agent security reviewer in Baz now runs on code changes that touch agent code, such as agent configuration, model SDK usage, direct provider calls, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP servers and CI workflows.
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· Human approval / guardrails
Baz Planner adds shared review of implementation plans published from coding agents, with comments on passages or the entire plan that survive revisions.
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· Security / enterprise
Baz added the SAST-inside feature to its Advanced Security agent.
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Sonar
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· Agent capability
The SonarQube Remediation Agent on SonarQube Cloud can now propose fixes for flaws found by the Hunter Agent, such as broken access control, business logic errors and gaps in sign in and session handling.
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· Agent capability
Gitar, Sonar's code review agent, added Agentic Security, which reviews changes to agent skills together with the scripts they call to catch risks such as a removed approval step or leaked credentials, drawing on Sonar's collaboration with OpenAI on Daybreak.
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· Deployment / data residency
SonarQube Server 2026.5 LTA brings Sonar's Remediation Agent, Hunter Agent and Vortex to self managed deployments, including on premises and locked down VPCs, where before they ran only in SonarQube Cloud.
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