# SonarQube

Source: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/product/sonarqube/

## Indicative from-price range

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting SonarQube on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Number of projects: 100; Total lines of code (millions): 5; Concurrent analyses: 2). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).

Reference workload:
- Number of projects: 100
- Total lines of code (millions): 5
- Concurrent analyses: 2

Price snapshot: 2026-10-19. Currency: USD. FX snapshot: 2026-10-19.

Configuration: Low end: 1 x basic-2vcpu-4gb (DigitalOcean, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, about $24 per server per month). High end: 1 x rise-m (OVHcloud, 12 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, about $112 per server per month).

Methodology: This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.

Price sources:
- [Amazon Web Services](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json)
- [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets)
- [Google Cloud](https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus)
- [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json)
- [Microsoft Azure](https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices)
- [OVHcloud](https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR)
- [Servers.com](https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal)

SonarQube is a static code analysis platform that continuously scans source code for bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells across dozens of languages. It surfaces quality-gate pass/fail results inside CI pipelines and pull requests so regressions can be blocked before merge.

## What gets deployed with it

- PostgreSQL HA Cluster (required): SonarQube requires an external relational database for production. The embedded H2 database is not supported for production.

## Baseline topologies

- single-node: 1 node minimum; roles: sonarqube

## What drives the cost

- Number of projects: Total number of projects analyzed. Drives Elasticsearch index size and JVM working set.
- Total lines of code (millions): Aggregate lines of code across all projects. Primary driver for JVM heap and Elasticsearch memory.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does it cost to self-host SonarQube?

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting SonarQube on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Number of projects: 100; Total lines of code (millions): 5; Concurrent analyses: 2). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west). This is an automatically generated indicative figure from public price lists (price snapshot 2026-10-19), not a quote.

### What drives the cost of self-hosting SonarQube?

The sizing inputs the calculator uses for SonarQube are: Number of projects; Total lines of code (millions). Cost also depends on the number of servers and the provider chosen.

### What is the minimum number of servers for SonarQube?

The smallest baseline topology in the calculator's profile for SonarQube is single-node (1 server). The reference range above is computed for 1 server.

Size SonarQube for your own workload: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/?product=sonarqube

## Sources

- https://www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/
- https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarqube
- https://www.sonarsource.com/license/
- https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/sonars-17-year-anniversary/