Agentic Index
Greptile vs Sonar (2026)
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Greptile builds a graph of your repository so review carries full codebase context, catching cross file bugs that diff only tools miss, free on Starter for one developer with 50 credits a month and for qualified open source, and on Pro sold as credits at $1 each with no seat fee, a review drawing 1, 3 or 10 credits by depth. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Sonar is the verification layer and automated review standard, free up to 50,000 lines of code, with paid cloud plans sized by lines of code, and since May 2026 its AI reviewer is Gitar, which reviews each pull request with codebase context, commits fixes under plain language merge rules and iterates until CI passes. The split is simple. Greptile finds the bug that spans four files, and Sonar guarantees the rules were checked every time.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, neither Greptile nor Sonar clears the bar, which asks for all five merge loop capabilities documented in full. Greptile does not document human oversight and guardrails 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. Greptile 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 Greptile if
- Cross file bugs are what keeps getting through, and diff scoped review is why.
- Repository graph context is the capability you are buying, not rule coverage.
- Credit pricing above an included allowance matches bursty pull request volume.
Choose Sonar if
- Consistency matters more than insight, with every rule checked on every change, deterministically.
- Testing, security and governance rules matter most to you.
- You need a quality gate that engineering standards or compliance will recognize.
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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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GreptileIntegrations & Tool Calling Reviews run on GitHub Cloud, GitLab.com, Bitbucket Cloud and Cursor Origin (beta) on every plan, with GitHub Enterprise Server, GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency, self managed GitLab, Bitbucket Data Center and Gitea on Enterprise and Perforce through P4 Code Review on premises. Context comes from Jira, Linear, Notion, Google Drive, Sentry and Datadog, and findings are delivered into Slack and the IDE. Fix with your Agent sends a comment with file, line numbers and suggested fix straight to Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Conductor, Cursor or Devin through a local bridge CLI, a Fix All control sends every issue at once, Greplooping lets an agent keep fixing until the review is clean, and comments are auto marked as addressed when a commit touches the flagged files. A hosted MCP server, REST API, npm CLI and Zapier integration extend the reach, and the Partner Program adds maintained context for OpenAI, Vercel, Stripe, PostHog, Datadog, WorkOS, Mintlify and Braintrust. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/integrations/code-providers, docs/integrations/fix-with-your-agent and greptile.com/independenceread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileWorkflow Orchestration The v5 review engine runs a swarm of narrowly scoped agents in parallel, each exploring one hypothesis for a potential bug, and aggregates their results into a single review. Greptile reports median review time falling from 5:04 to 2:25 and author addressed comments rising from 52 to 66 percent in production A/B tests. The agent looks beyond the diff for similar logic, traces dependencies, reads git history and runs iterative passes that challenge their own hypotheses, with the maximum number of agentic turns configurable per review. TREX runs as a companion agent that writes and executes tests, the security reviewer chains Opengrep pattern scanning, dependency analysis and AI exploit detection, and Greplooping hands findings to a coding agent repeatedly until the review comes back clean. Sourcegreptile.com/blog/greptile-v5, greptile.com/changelog 2026-08-05 and greptile.com/independenceread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileTriggers & Channel Coverage Reviews start automatically when a pull request opens in GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Cursor Origin and run again on later commits under configured review triggers. TREX runs on every reviewed pull request or only on those matching branch, label, author or path rules, and skips changes with nothing to test. Reviews can also be started with @greptileai, a re trigger control, a reply in the thread, @greptileai trex, or the CLI on a local branch. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/quickstart, docs/trex/overview and greptile.com/cliread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileKnowledge Grounding & RAG A graph index of the entire repository maps how functions, classes, files and directories connect and updates continuously, so reviews can reason about ripple effects beyond the diff, and a Knowledge Base generates and maintains documentation of how each part of the codebase works, how it connects and which past bugs and risks it carries, updated in real time as code changes, editable from the dashboard and served to coding agents over MCP. Repo Clusters and a context.repos field give read only access to up to seven related repositories per review, with clusters suggested from shared contributors over the previous 90 days. A files.json file points reviews at existing schemas, API specs and architecture docs in the repository, and context also comes from Jira, Linear, Notion, Google Drive, Sentry and Datadog. The Partner Program supplies partner maintained documentation for supported third party APIs, and imported AI rules files, including CLAUDE.md and Cursor rules, become org wide context. Sourcegreptile.com/knowledge-base, docs/code-review/cross-repo-context and greptile.com/pricing; greptile.com/docs/code-review/cross-repo-contextread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileMemory & State Persistence Memory and Learning picks up team preferences from PR comments, replies to Greptile, reactions and whether comments were addressed between the first and last commit, suppresses comment types a team ignores, and turns repeated patterns into suggested rules. Its scope, lifetime and any way to review or delete what was learned are not stated. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/how-greptile-works/memory-and-learningread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileHuman Oversight & Guardrails Greptile posts its reviews and, where enabled, approves pull requests on its own after a clean five out of five review at or below a risk cap the customer sets, with exclusion filters by label, branch, file and author. Authentication, secrets, billing, migrations, infrastructure, CI and public APIs form the critical risk tier, so they are held back only when the cap sits below critical or the paths are excluded; with no cap set the page says it can approve any clean review, and an option counts TREX results in the decision. Custom rules shape what it flags. These controls constrain the agent, but no step where a person approves the agent's action before it lands is described. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/code-review/auto-approve-prs, docs/trex/overview and greptile.com/changelog 2026-06-26; greptile.com/docs/code-review/first-pr-reviewread 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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GreptileSecurity, Identity & Governance Greptile is SOC 2 Type II compliant, with the report, penetration test results and subprocessor list in its Trust Center at trust.greptile.com, and it holds zero data retention agreements with its LLM providers. Single sign on with SAML and role based access control come with Enterprise, along with audit logs. Greptile Cloud runs on AWS with customer code cached on an encrypted filesystem until access is revoked, an admin can delete all customer data within 24 hours, and de identified data may be used to train Greptile's models unless an admin turns that off, which self hosted deployments never do. The whole service can also self host into a customer VPC or an air gapped environment with customer supplied LLM providers. Sourcegreptile.com/security (updated 18 October 2026) and greptile.com/pricingread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileObservability & Auditability Each TREX flow keeps a step by step record of what the agent did and a captioned video of the run, posted to the pull request with live progress while it runs and retained for 30 days to anyone with read access to the repository. The analytics dashboard tracks reviews, addressed rate, bugs caught and merge times with export, and Enterprise adds audit logs. The review agent itself keeps outcomes rather than a step trace. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/trex/overview, docs/trex/results and docs/analytics; greptile.com/docs/trex/resultsread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileDeployment & Data Residency The entire service can be self hosted, including in air gapped environments, using Docker Compose on a single Linux VM for up to 100 developers or Kubernetes with Helm for 100 or more with horizontal scaling and high availability. Sizing requirements are published, and parallel deployments give a migration path between the two. An AWS Terraform module provisions VPC, EC2, RDS PostgreSQL and ElastiCache Redis and bootstraps the application, and manual setup covers GCP, Azure and on premises. Self hosted customers bring their own LLM provider by base URL and keys, choosing among OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and GCP Vertex AI, so inference stays on customer infrastructure; the deployment repository is public at github.com/greptileai/akupara and self hosting requires a license. Greptile Cloud runs on AWS, and Enterprise adds GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency and Perforce for on premises deployments. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/deployment-options, greptile.com/security and docs/integrations/code-providersread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptilePrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs The Partner Program supplies vendor curated review context for third party APIs, so a pull request that touches a supported partner API, SDK, config or integration is reviewed against partner maintained documentation, implementation rules and common failure patterns, with comments marked by partner logo and linked to the relevant docs. It is on by default for all users, with featured partners including OpenAI, Vercel, Stripe, PostHog, Datadog, WorkOS, Mintlify and Braintrust. Greptile also ships two named agents, the code reviewer and TREX, and imports existing AI rules files, including CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md and Cursor rules, as org wide context. There is no browsable catalog, marketplace or gallery of installable agents or templates. Sourcegreptile.com/partners and greptile.com/pricingread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileModel Flexibility & Routing Review settings let the customer choose which AI model powers reviews and set the maximum number of agentic turns per review, balancing speed, depth and cost. Model Inversion, marked experimental, detects from commit trails, branch prefixes and PR titles when a coding agent wrote a pull request and routes the review to a different model, so Claude authored code is reviewed by GPT and GPT authored code by Claude. The cloud service combines frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, and self hosted deployments bring their own provider by base URL and keys, with OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and GCP Vertex AI supported, so models run entirely on customer infrastructure. Sourcegreptile.com/changelog entries of 2025-09-26 and 2026-07-22, greptile.com/independence and docs/deployment-optionsread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility A REST API exposes Index Repository, Query Repos, Search Repos and Get Repository Info, alongside webhooks, with API keys issued from app.greptile.com/settings/api. A hosted MCP server at api.greptile.com/mcp, configured by bearer token in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and VS Code, lets assistants trigger and re run reviews, inspect results, manage custom context and update repository rules, and the Knowledge Base MCP on Pro serves the maintained codebase documentation to coding agents. An npm CLI runs reviews locally, with --json for machine readable output and --agent for agent workflows and scripts, and greptile onboard sets up an organization from the terminal. A Greptile plugin ships in Anthropic's official Claude Code marketplace, and a Zapier integration is published. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/mcp/setup, greptile.com/knowledge-base, greptile.com/pricing and greptile.com/changelogread 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileTesting, Debugging & Optimization Every pull request is reviewed for logic, security and cross file bugs, with confidence scores and P0 to P2 severity. TREX, in beta, works out which user flows a change affects, starts the app in a sandbox built from an environment the customer configures, exercises those flows like a user and runs targeted tests, posting what it tested and what broke with logs, traces and a video, so the tests act as a quality gate before release and can feed the auto approval decision. Sourcegreptile.com/trex, docs/trex/overview, docs/trex/environments and greptile.com/changelog 2026-06-15read 2026-10-28 |
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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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GreptileBrowser & Computer Use TREX, in beta, starts the customer's app in a sandbox built from a configured environment and uses it the way a person would, clicking, typing and observing what is on the screen, on every reviewed pull request or on those matching rules. It records a video of every flow it runs. Each TREX run costs 3 credits on top of the review, charged only when a flow reaches a pass or fail. Sourcegreptile.com/docs/trex/overviewread 2026-10-28 |
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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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Starter free (1 active developer, 50 credits a month). Pro is prepaid credits at $1 each, shared across the organization, with unlimited developers and no seat fees. Enterprise is custom, and a 14 day Pro trial is offered. | 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 |
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Prepaid credits at $1 each, shared across the organization, with no seat fees and unlimited developers. A Base review uses 1 credit, a Plus review 3 and an Apex review 10, and a TREX run adds 3. Enterprise is a custom contract, including self hosted deployment. | 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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Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Greptile
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· Agent capability
TREX, Greptile's end to end testing agent, is now generally available.
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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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