We performed a comparison between SonarCloud and SonarQube based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Result: Based on the parameters we compared, SonarQube comes out ahead of SonarCloud. Although both products have valuable features and can be estimated as high-end solutions, our reviewers found that SonarCloud lacks technical support.
"Recently, they introduced support for mono reports and microservices, which is a noteworthy development as it provides a more detailed view of each service."
"The solution provides continuous code analysis which has improved the quality of our code. It can raise alarms on vulnerabilities with immediate reports on the dashboard. Few things are false positives and we can customize the rules."
"The reports from SonarCloud are very good."
"The most valuable feature of SonarCloud is its overall performance."
"I'm not implementing the solutions. However, I've talked to the people who deploy the tools, and they are happy with how easy setting up SonarCloud is."
"For what it is meant to do, it works pretty well."
"SonarCloud is overall a good tool for identifying code smells, bugs, and code duplication, but we've found that using Android Lint is more effective for our needs."
"The solution can be installed locally."
"The integrations SonarQube provides with our software delivery pipeline are very seamless."
"If code coverage is a low number then that's of great value to me."
"SonarQube is useful for controlling all of our Azure task tracking and scanning."
"The tool helps us to monitor and manage violations. It manages the bugs and security violations."
"I like that it covers most programming languages for source code review."
"The most valuable features are the wide array of languages, multiple languages per project, the breakdown of bugs, and the description of vulnerabilities and code smells (best practices)."
"The overall quality of the indicator is good."
"The static code analysis is very good."
"There's room for improvement in the configuration process, particularly during the initial setup phase."
"It would be helpful if notifications could go out to an extra person."
"SonarCloud's UI needs enhancement."
"The solution needs to improve its customization and flexibility."
"CI/CD pipeline is part of a whole chain of design, development, and production, and it's becoming increasingly crucial to optimize the various tools across different stages. However, it's still a silo approach because the full integration is missing. This isn't just an issue with SonarCloud. It's a general problem with tooling."
"The reports could improve by providing more information. We are not able to use the reports in our operation until they are improved. Additionally, if the vendor provided more customization capabilities it would be a benefit."
"SonarCloud can improve the false positives. Sometimes the gates sometimes act a little weird. We then need to manually go and mark the false positive."
"I've been told by the developers that the solution is too limited. It's not testing enough within the containers."
"SonarQube needs to improve its support model. They do not work 24/7, and they do not provide weekend support in case things go wrong. They only have a standard 8:00 am to 5:00 pm support model in which you have to raise a support ticket and wait. The support model is not effective for premium customers."
"We have tens of millions of code to be analyzed and processed. There can be some performance degradation if we are applying Sonar Link to large code or code that is complex. When the code had to be analyzed is when we ran into the main issues. There were several routines involved to solve those performance issues but this process should be improved."
"The solution is a bit lacking on the security side, in terms of finding and identifying vulnerabilities."
"There are times that we have the database crash. However, this might be an issue with how we have configured it and not a software issue. Apart from this, I do not see any issues with the solution."
"The solution could improve by having better-consulting services."
"This solution finds issues that are similar to what is found by Checkmarx, and it would be nice if the overlap could be eliminated."
"In terms of what can be improved, the areas that need more attention in the solution are its architecture and development."
"SonarQube can improve by scanning the internal library which currently it does not do. We are looking for a solution for this."
SonarCloud is ranked 10th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 10 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 110 reviews. SonarCloud is rated 8.4, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SonarCloud writes "Beneficial vulnerability discovery, simple to maintain, and proactive support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". SonarCloud is most compared with Veracode, Checkmarx One, GitLab, OWASP Zap and Coverity, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, Coverity, Veracode, Snyk and GitHub Advanced Security. See our SonarCloud vs. SonarQube report.
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