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Sonar is a code verification platform that analyzes human-written, AI-generated, and open-source code for quality, reliability, and security issues. It integrates into development workflows from the IDE through CI/CD to catch bugs, vulnerabilities, duplications, and maintainability concerns before deployment.

The platform includes SonarQube Cloud (SaaS) and SonarQube Server (self-managed), along with SonarQube Advanced Security for SAST, taint analysis, secrets detection, IaC scanning, and software composition analysis. Additional tools include Gitar for automated pull request review, AI CodeFix for generating fix suggestions, AI Code Assurance for validating AI-generated code, SonarQube for IDE, SonarQube CLI, and Sonar MCP for AI workflows. It supports over 35 languages and integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Bitbucket.

SonarQube is aimed at development teams, platform engineering, and security organizations, including regulated industries needing self-hosted deployment. SonarQube Cloud is available as a free plan with a 14-day trial for Advanced Security, while SonarQube Server supports air-gapped and custom enterprise configurations.

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