Code Climate (now Qlty)

The code quality tool that rebranded to Qlty — and its real per-contributor price

Free $0 · Pro $20/contributor/mo · Enterprise $30/contributor/mo code-reviewquality-metricstest-coverage

About

Code Climate is one of the best-known names in automated code quality, and that is exactly why its pricing pages are now misleading: the code quality and lint product line operates as Qlty Software, so many pages ranking for 'Code Climate pricing' still describe the older Velocity and Quality structure. Knowing that rebrand matters before you budget, because the billing unit changed too — Qlty charges per contributor, not per seat, per repository or per line of code. Free is genuinely free and not limited to open source: unlimited private contributors, unlimited public and private repositories, 1,000 analysis minutes per month and 100 AI autofixes per month, with coverage, linting and formatting, duplication and complexity, SAST and SCA, secrets scanning, IaC security, custom checks, a Rust CLI, GitHub SSO and SOC 2 Type II. Pro is $20 per contributor per month and lifts the ceiling to 20,000 analysis minutes and 5,000 AI autofixes, adding shared configurations, trends and hotspots with one year of history, accelerated analysis, REST API and monorepo support. Enterprise is $30 per contributor per month with 75,000 analysis minutes, three years of history, organisation policies, priority support with SLA, custom permissions, audit logs and consolidated billing; custom contract terms only appear above roughly $40,000 of annual spend, and volume discounts start at 100 seats. The sting is the definition of contributor: any unique user or bot that pushed an analysed commit, uploaded coverage or logged into Qlty Cloud in a rolling 30-day window — and bots count if they open pull requests, which means AI agents inflate the bill. Annual billing includes two months free, Enterprise overage runs $0.01 per analysis minute, open-source projects are free, and registered non-profits get 10% off with classroom use free.

Key Features

Code coverage, linting and automatic formatting
Duplication, complexity, trends and hotspots
SAST, SCA, secrets scanning and IaC security
Custom checks with an open Rust CLI
Monorepo support and REST API on Pro
Organisation policies, audit logs and SLA support on Enterprise

Deals, Discounts & How to Save

Free plan is not limited to open source — unlimited private contributors includedFree for qualifying open-source projectsRegistered 501(c)(3) non-profits get 10% off; K-12 and university classroom use is 100% freeAnnual billing adds two free months — roughly 17% off

The cheapest Code Climate configuration is the free Qlty plan: unlimited private contributors with 1,000 analysis minutes and 100 AI autofixes per month, plus separate free terms for open-source projects and 100% free classroom use. When you upgrade, bill annually for two free months, and cut the contributor count by excluding bots and one-off accounts from your analysed repositories.