SonarLint 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

SonarLint

4.7

(7)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About SonarLint

SonarLint, a core component of the Sonar solution, is a free and open-source IDE plugin, that is a developer's first line of defense to find and fix coding issues in real time. SonarLint resolves issues in code and provides rich contextual guidance to help developers improve their skills while enhancing their productivity.

Supporting over 25 languages and the most popular IDEs, SonarLint leverages over 5,000 language-specific Clean Code rules to instantly highlight common coding issues that may lead to, bugs, and vulnerabilities.

SonarLint Screenshots

SonarLint Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

SonarLint Features

Popular features found in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
API
Integrated Development Environment
Real-Time Analytics
Vulnerability Scanning
More features of SonarLint
Application Security
Debugging
For Developers
Multi-Language Scanning
Source-Code Scanning

SonarLint Integrations

IntelliJ IDEA

Microsoft Visual Studio

Eclipse

PhpStorm

PyCharm

WebStorm

SonarLint User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

71%

29%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

5.0

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.1

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Easy SAST in your IDE

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

SonarLint allows users to customize the rules that are used to analyze their code, making it possible to tailor the tool to the needs of specific project. It integrates with popular IDEs such as Eclipse and Visual Studio, making it easy to use within a developer's existing workflow. The reports include the location of the issue and a description of the problem. SonarLint includes code snippets and examples to help developers understand and fix the issues that have been identified which I find very useful.

Cons:

Setting up SonarLint can be time-consuming, as it requires installing the tool and configuring it for each specific project. As it happens with all SAST tools, SonarLint only performs static code analysis, meaning it cannot identify issues that may arise during runtime.

Shubham Vasantrao K.

Verified reviewer

Capital Markets

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

One of the best plugin out there

One of the best tools out there in the market.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

1) I did use the plugin version of SonarLint. We integrated it with Eclipse, Pycharm and Visual Code2) The tool is extremely configurable as in we can set the rules-based settings for our organization and/or team3) The best part of the plugin is that we can find the suggestions/bug detection at the development time so that there is no need to redevelop and deploy the code4) Another best thing about the product is that it helps mitigate vulnerabilities in the code, keeping the user and the code base up to date. Allows users to learn the best development practices and improves the readability of the code

Cons:

1) I liked almost everything when I was using it is Eclipse and Pycharm.2) However, I found it a bit slow in response and cumbersome to use in VS code. It might be my personal opinion but I did find it slow.

Vendor Response

Thank you - we value your feedback. We are constantly striving to improve the experience of our users, and we invite you to join our active Community where we share all the latest developments, as well as work on improvements. https://community.sonarsource.com/

Replied February 2023

teran n.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2023

Plugin used to check issues before deploying

After submitting my first merge request to the supervisor in my first company, I was asked whether I have check the code smells. I said no and then I was asked to add sonar-lint plugin to my IDE, then check the code issues and finally send him the merge request once I fix all those issues. Since that moment I use this everyday to check issues in the code that I daily write.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This identifies code smells, security issues, bugs and gives suggestions to fix them as well. By using this, developers can release a bug free quality code to the repository and also without knowing that will become a daily practice which is very good for a developer and the company as well.

Cons:

I found some warnings and I though those are not actually issues to be fixed. So I think not all the warnings that the plugin show are important to be fixed.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your feedback, we consider it a gift. Our goal is to empower every developer to create clean code, and your comments will help us continue to improve.

Replied April 2023

sadri F.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

SonarLint easy to use

Je suis satisfait de cet outil.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Integration avec Visual studio permet d'analyser le code avant de le pousser dans le depot.

Cons:

La version actuelle me plait et effectue son travail convenablement sans avoir besoin de trop de ressources.

Reasons for choosing SonarLint

Son integration avec Visual studio

Vendor Response

Thank you Sadri for your kind review. We consider feedback to be a gift. It encourages us on our journey to bring Clean Code to everyone.

Replied March 2023

Rakesh A.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Great tool for writing good quality code

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It helps to improve our coding standard especially for less experienced people. It helps to avoid more issues from higher environment after code deployment

Cons:

It will take some time for new users to gel with this tool but it can not be considered as a disadvantage

Athira R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Great tool for improving coding skills

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

this software will highlight suggestions to improve coding standard, if we practice it as part of daily coding, it will definitely advance our coding skills

Cons:

sometimes it's time consuming if we analyses entire codebase

Andrea A.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

The best linter that everybody need to test

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It is well integrated with both JetBrains / VSC IDE. It works well with bitbucket and GitHub. Also, it offers a lot of customization and vulnerability hints. A must-have

Cons:

Did not find any cons as far as I used it.

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