: A SonarQube commercial license does not grant access to SonarCloud, and vice versa.
: It lacks branch analysis and Pull Request (PR) decoration. You can only scan your "main" branch, which often makes it a bottleneck for modern CI/CD workflows. 2. Commercial Server Editions
| Deployment | License needed? | Notes | |------------|----------------|-------| | (any edition) | Yes (commercial) or LGPL (Community) | License tied to specific instance(s) | | SonarCloud (SaaS) | No per-seat – usage-based (LOC analyzed/month) | Separate pricing, not a SonarQube license | | Air-gapped / offline | Yes (commercial) | Requires license file validation |
: A SonarQube commercial license does not grant access to SonarCloud, and vice versa.
: It lacks branch analysis and Pull Request (PR) decoration. You can only scan your "main" branch, which often makes it a bottleneck for modern CI/CD workflows. 2. Commercial Server Editions sonarqube licenses
| Deployment | License needed? | Notes | |------------|----------------|-------| | (any edition) | Yes (commercial) or LGPL (Community) | License tied to specific instance(s) | | SonarCloud (SaaS) | No per-seat – usage-based (LOC analyzed/month) | Separate pricing, not a SonarQube license | | Air-gapped / offline | Yes (commercial) | Requires license file validation | : A SonarQube commercial license does not grant