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Code Quality & Security for AI-Assisted Engineering — enforce standards from prompt to production

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Key strengths

Unified platform for code quality, security, and AI coding policy enforcementAI Guardrails that scan AI-generated code in real time during agentic workflowsActionable, low-noise AI code reviews on every Pull Request with auto-fix suggestionsCompliance-ready reports (SOC2, ISO27001) with real-time SBOMsDaily CVE & malware re-scans via Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
Free tier + paid plans · from $18 USD/mo

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  • Plans updated: Free Developer tier (IDE plugin, $0/dev/mth forever); Team plan starting at $18/dev/mth (yearly) or $21/dev/mth (monthly), free for open-source projects, up to 30 devs; Business plan at custom pricing with enterprise features.
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Codacy — Technical Overview

Codacy is a code quality and security platform built for engineering teams navigating AI-assisted development. It provides a unified scanning pipeline covering static analysis, software composition analysis (SCA), and security checks across 49 programming languages — all from a single platform.

Key technical capabilities include:

  • AI Guardrails embedded directly into coding agents and IDEs (VSCode, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf), enforcing coding standards at the point of generation
  • AI Reviewer for pull requests, delivering low-noise, actionable feedback with auto-fix suggestions
  • Daily CVE and malware re-scans via SCA to surface newly disclosed vulnerabilities in dependencies without waiting for a new commit
  • Compliance reporting mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITRUST, and NIST SSDF frameworks
  • Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, Jira, Slack, and AWS Marketplace

Codacy fits into existing CI/CD and SCM workflows, providing gate checks and continuous monitoring without requiring teams to overhaul their toolchain.

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