Sonar: SonarQube Server Developer plan price hidden (was $750/yr)
What happened
Between the Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026 captures of Sonar's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: SonarQube Server Developer plan's public starting price ($750 annually) removed from the pricing page; replaced with 'Priced per instance, per year, based on your lines of code' (no dollar figure shown). In detail: SonarQube Server Developer plan's public starting price ($750 annually) was removed from the pricing page; replaced with generic 'Priced per instance, per year, based on your lines of code' messaging and a new 'Compare plans' link, with no specific dollar figure shown. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price hidden) with a downward direction.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Sonar. Sonar has been tracked since 2026-04-15.
In the same window Snyk and Semgrep also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
“SonarSource” is the name Sonar’s pricing page uses; Pulse files the change under Sonar, the company it tracks.
- Developer · Price visibilityHiddenPrice listedPrice hidden
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Price visibility | Price listed | Price hidden | Hidden |
Values as written on Sonar's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Sonar's pricing page (www.sonarsource.com) from Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where "Price listed" becomes "Price hidden".
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Sonar, pricing history
Full history- Oct 19, 2026improvedSonar Developer Edition adds PostgreSQL, Azure Pipelines, Jupyter
- Oct 5, 2026packagingSonar drops Data Center plan, adds agentic AI to Enterprise tier
- Aug 4, 2026packagingSonar: SonarQube Server Developer plan price hidden (was $750/yr) · this change
Across Software Development & Testing in the same window
All Software Development & Testing changesQuestions about this change
Did Sonar raise prices in August 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: price hidden.
What changed on Sonar's pricing page between Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026?
Developer price visibility: Price listed → Price hidden, hidden. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 27, 2026 and Aug 3, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Sonar change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Sonar in the 90 days before this one; Sonar has been tracked since 2026-04-15.
