MagSolutionsAIMagAudit vs SonarQube Cloud
Written by the people who make one of the two. Read it with that in mind.
For a small team, SonarQube is cheaper — and may be free
SonarQube Cloud's Team plan starts at $34 a month for analysis of up to 100k lines of code, and private projects up to 50k lines of code are free, with no card and no expiry (sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing). Its core analysis already includes SAST, secrets detection and infrastructure-as-code scanning (their product page), and by default it is hosted in the EU, in Frankfurt (their trust centre).
It also does far more than we do: code quality, coverage and more than 30 languages. And it is everywhere — its bot has commented on more than 5.8 million public pull requests (GitHub search, 4 October 2026). Ours, at the time of writing, on 12.
Where we are different
Three things, and they are narrow. We would rather say so than pretend the gap is wider.
| SonarQube Cloud | MagAudit | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcoded credentials in your code | Yes, in the core analysis | Yes |
Keys shipped to the browser (NEXT_PUBLIC_, VITE_) | Not advertised as a check | Yes |
| Dockerfiles, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes | Yes | Yes |
| Newly published, barely used packages, flagged before any advisory | Malicious package detection is part of Advanced Security, a separate product added to the Team plan; its price is not published (their docs) | Included at every price — age and adoption, PyPI and npm |
| Code quality, coverage, 30+ languages | Yes | No — security only |
| A public record of every false positive we fixed | Not published | Yes — each one cited and pinned by a test (our error record) |
| Where the code is read | EU by default (Frankfurt, on AWS) | One server in Finland; never sent to an AI model |
| How the price grows | With lines of code | With private repositories: €29 (5), €69 (15) or €149 (40) a month per organisation |
How to decide
If your private code fits in 50k lines and you want quality and security together, SonarQube's free plan is hard to argue with. If you already pay for SonarQube Team, the gap we fill is the package published days ago with almost no users — which in SonarQube needs Advanced Security on top — and the key that ends up in your frontend bundle. If what you want is a security check only, priced per organisation, from a vendor that publishes every mistake it has fixed, that is what we built.
Last reviewed: 4 October 2026. Figures about SonarQube are theirs, linked where they appear, as published on that date; the pull request count is a public GitHub search you can repeat. Figures about us are our own measurement and reproducible against our public endpoint and our error record.