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Codacy
Code quality gates, now partly free inside GitHub itself.
KINDA
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
SonarQube Community covers the headline feature free, so the $18/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- GitHub Copilot code review shipped natively into pull requests. Microsoft, April 4, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: SonarQube Community.
- What the call is worth $216/yr
- $18/mo at the entry paid tier — $216 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Microsoft
- Since
- April 4, 2025
- List price
- $18/mo
- Per year
- $216
The backstory
Codacy aggregates linters, coverage and security checks into a quality gate on every PR. That aggregation is genuinely useful for teams juggling five languages. But GitHub now reviews pull requests natively with Copilot, and Advanced Security covers much of the scanning, so the reason to add a third-party gate keeps narrowing to compliance reporting.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $216/yr G 
GitHub Copilot Bundled with most GitHub plans.
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GitHub Advanced Security Native scanning if you are already on GitHub.
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SonarQube Community Free self-hosted quality gate.
sonarsource.com open_in_new1 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.
