Continuous Integration

The Best Continuous Integration Static Analysis Tools (Linters/Formatters)

We rank 44 Continuous Integration linters, code analyzers, formatters, and more. Find and compare tools like Mega-Linter, Semgrep, Teamscale, and more. Please rate and review tools that you've used. This helps others find the best tools for their projects.

16 Continuous Integration Tools

composer-dependency-analyser

Fast detection of composer dependency issues.

  • 💪 Powerful: Detects unused, shadow and misplaced composer dependencies
  • ⚡ Performant: Scans 15 000 files in 2s!
  • ⚙️ Configurable: Fine-grained ignores via PHP config
  • 🕸️ Lightweight: No composer dependencies
  • 🍰 Easy-to-use: No config needed for first try
  • ✨ Compatible: PHP >= 7.2
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  • 100% upvoted

Goblint

A static analyzer for the analysis of multi-threaded C programs. Its primary focus is the detection of data races, but it also reports other runtime errors, such as buffer overflows and null-pointer dereferences.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedC
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedide-plugin
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 77% upvoted

exakat

An automated code reviewing engine for PHP.

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  • 100% upvoted

CodeRabbit

AI-powered code review tool that helps developers write better code faster. CodeRabbit provides automated code reviews, identifies security vulnerabilities, and suggests code improvements. It integrates with GitHub and GitLab.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

actionlint

Static checker for GitHub Actions workflow files. Provides an online version.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Code Climate

The open and extensible static analysis platform, for everyone.

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  • 0% upvoted

Codecov

Codecov is a company that provides code coverage tools for developers and engineering leaders to gain visibility into their code coverage. They offer flexible and unified reporting, seamless coverage insights, and robust coverage controls. Codecov supports over 20 languages and is CI/CD agnostic. Over 29,000 organizations and 1 million developers use Codecov. Codecov has recently joined Sentry.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Diffblue

Diffblue is a software company that provides AI-powered code analysis and testing solutions for software development teams. Its technology helps developers automate testing, find bugs, and reduce manual labor in their software development processes. The company's main product, Diffblue Cover, uses AI to generate and run unit tests for Java code, helping to catch errors and improve code quality.

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  • 0% upvoted

Nitpick CI

Automated PHP code review.

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  • 0% upvoted

PullRequest

Code review as a service with built-in static analysis. Increase velocity and reduce technical debt through quality code review by expert engineers backed by best-in-class automation.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

quality

Runs quality checks on your code using community tools, and makes sure your numbers don't get any worse over time.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedRuby
  • Deprecatedcli
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

QuantifiedCode

Automated code review & repair. It helps you to keep track of issues and metrics in your software projects, and can be easily extended to support new types of analyses.

  • DeprecatedDeprecated
  • DeprecatedPython
  • Deprecatedservice
  • Deprecatedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

RefactorFirst

Identifies and prioritizes God Classes and Highly Coupled classes in Java codebases you should refactor first.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Reviewdog

A tool for posting review comments from any linter in any code hosting service.

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  • MaintainedGo
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Symfony Insight

Detect security risks, find bugs and provide actionable metrics for PHP projects.

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  • 0% upvoted

Violations Lib

Java library for parsing report files from static code analysis. Used by a bunch of Jenkins, Maven and Gradle plugins.

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  • 0% upvoted

28 Multi-Language Tools

Mega-Linter

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 67% upvoted

Semgrep

Sponsor

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 78% upvoted

Teamscale

Static and dynamic analysis tool supporting more than 25 languages and direct IDE integration. Free hosting for Open Source projects available on request. Free academic licenses available.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 79% upvoted

SonarQube

SonarQube empowers development teams with a code quality and security solution that deeply integrates into your enterprise environment; enabling you to deploy clean code consistently and reliably. SonarQube provides a free and open source Community Edition.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 68% upvoted

Bearer

Open-Source static code analysis tool to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive data exposures (PII, PHI, PD). Highly configurable and easily extensible, built for security and engineering teams.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 89% upvoted

GitGuardian ggshield

ggshield is a CLI application that runs in your local environment or in a CI environment to help you detect more than 350+ types of secrets, as well as other potential security vulnerabilities or policy breaks affecting your codebase.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Sonatype

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 72% upvoted

ThreatMapper

Vulnerability Scanner and Risk Evaluation for containers, serverless and hosts at runtime. ThreatMapper generates runtime BOMs from dependencies and operating system packages, matches against multiple threat feeds, scans for unprotected secrets, and scores issues based on severity and risk-of-exploit.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 83% upvoted

codeql

Deep code analysis - semantic queries and dataflow for several languages with VSCode plugin support.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 65% upvoted

Codeac

Automated code review tool integrates with GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab (even self-hosted). Available for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Docker, and more. (open-source free)

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 67% upvoted

Codety

Codety Scanner is a comprehensive source code scanner that embeds 5000+ static code analysis rules, which aim to detect code issues for 20+ programming languages and IaC tools.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 60% upvoted

cpp-linter-action

A Github Action for linting C/C++ code integrating clang-tidy and clang-format to collect feedback provided in the form of thread comments and/or annotations.

  • MaintainedMaintained
  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 67% upvoted

Precaution

Precaution is a static analysis security tool (SAST) designed to find potentially critical vulnerabilities in source code prior to production. It is available as a CLI, GitHub Action, and GitHub App.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • MaintainedcliMaintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

Upsource

Code review tool with static code analysis and code-aware navigation for Java, PHP, JavaScript and Kotlin.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 100% upvoted

AzSK

Secure DevOps kit for Azure (AzSK) provides security IntelliSense, Security Verification Tests (SVTs), CICD scan vulnerabilities, compliance issues, and infrastructure misconfiguration in your infrastructure-as-code. Supports Azure via ARM.

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  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

CodePatrol

Automated SAST code reviews driven by security, supports 15+ languages and includes security training.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Codiga

Automated Code Reviews and Technical Debt management platform that supports 12+ languages.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 50% upvoted

Mobb

Mobb is a trusted, automatic vulnerability fixer that secures applications, reduces security backlogs, and frees developers to focus on innovation. Mobb is free for open-source projects.

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  • MaintainedlinterMaintainedformatter
  • 0% upvoted

Scrutinizer

A proprietary code quality checker that can be integrated with GitHub.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 50% upvoted

Snyk Code

Snyk Code finds security vulnerabilities based on AI. Its speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#, Go and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab. It is free to try and part of the Snyk platform also covering SCA, containers and IaC.

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  • 50% upvoted

TencentCodeAnalysis

Tencent Cloud Code Analysis (TCA for short, code-named CodeDog inside the company early) is a comprehensive platform for code analysis and issue tracking. TCA consist of three components, server, web and client. It integrates of a number of self-developed tools, and also supports dynamic integration of code analysis tools in various programming languages.

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  • 50% upvoted

Betterscan CE

Sponsor

Checks your code and infra (various Git repositories supported, cloud stacks, CLI, Web Interface platform, integrationss available) for security and quality issues. Code Scanning/SAST/Linting using many tools/Scanners deduplicated with One Report (AI optional).

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 40% upvoted

SonarCloud

SonarCloud enables your team to deliver clean code consistently and efficiently with a code review tool that easily integrates into the cloud DevOps platforms and extend your CI/CD workflow. SonarCloud is free for open source projects.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 47% upvoted

Synopsys

A commercial static analysis platform that allows for scanning of multiple languages (C/C++, Android, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Fortran, and Swift).

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 43% upvoted

CodeFactor

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 40% upvoted

CodeFlow

Automated code analysis tool to deal with technical depth. Integrates with Bitbucket and Gitlab. (free for Open Source Projects)

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  • Maintainedlinter
  • 33% upvoted

Pronto

Quick automated code review of your changes. Supports more than 40 runners for various languages, including Clang, Elixir, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and more.

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  • MaintainedMulti-Language
  • Maintainedcli
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

LGTM

Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using CodeQL queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for open source. Formerly semmle. It supports public Git repositories hosted on Bitbucket Cloud, GitHub.com, GitLab.com.

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  • Maintainedservice
  • Maintainedlinter
  • 0% upvoted

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Continuous Integration tools?

Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developer working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. Each integration can then be verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

What are the best Continuous Integration static analysis tools and linters?

The most popular Continuous Integration tools ranked by user votes are: Mega-Linter, Semgrep, Teamscale, SonarQube, Bearer.

Which Continuous Integration tools are free to use?

Tools with a free plan include CodeRabbit, Precaution, Codecov, Codiga, Diffblue. On top of that, there are also a number of open source like Mega-Linter, Semgrep, SonarQube, Bearer, GitGuardian ggshield, Sonatype, ThreatMapper, composer-dependency-analyser, Goblint, exakat.

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