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Contrast Security Protect vs SonarQube comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Contrast Security Protect
Ranking in Application Security Tools
31st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SonarQube
Ranking in Application Security Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
134
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (1st), Software Development Analytics (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Contrast Security Protect is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonarQube is 16.9%, down from 26.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SonarQube16.9%
Contrast Security Protect0.9%
Other82.2%
Application Security Tools
 

Featured Reviews

ToddMcAlister - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Application and Data Security Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks.
I rate Contrast Security Protect eight out of 10. Overall, it's a solid product, but I deduct a couple of points because of the interface and some shortcomings in the reporting. If you have a large enterprise where you're dealing with a lot of servers, then it makes sense not to use the internal MySQL database. You should use something like Oracle or Microsoft SQL, but if you don't have many transactions, the embedded MySQL database works great.
KH
Sr Software Engineering Supervisor at Mozarc Medical
Gains control over rule customization and achieves reliable vulnerability assessment
The deployment process took me about 2 or 3 hours to deploy SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube), although I do not remember exactly since it was done about 2 years back. Currently, about 10 of my developers are using SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in my company. I do not have plans to increase the usage of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in the future as there will not be any requirement to increase. I am a senior software engineer and supervisor at Mozark Medical. My corporate email address is karthik.k.a.r.t.h.i.k.h.a.r.p.a.n.h.a.l.l.i@mozarkmedical.com. Overall, I would rate SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) as a 9 out of 10.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product gives a few false positives. We get 99 percent true positives."
"Protect provides us with more in-depth visibility into ongoing attacks."
"The solution has excellent real-time capabilities."
"Integrate it into the developers' workbench so that they can bench check their code against what will be done in the server-based audit version."
"It's a great product. If you are in a hurry and just want to focus on the functional requirements of any kind of project, SonarQube is highly helpful. It enables the developers to code securely. SonarQube has a Community edition, which is open source and free. There are also three proprietary or paid versions: Enterprise edition, Data Center edition, and Developer edition."
"We consider it a handy tool that helps to resolve our issues immediately."
"Engineers have also learned from the results and have improved themselves as engineers. This will help them with their careers."
"The solution can be installed locally."
"Improve the code coverage and evaluates the technical steps and percentage of code being resolved."
"Apart from the security point of view, I like that it makes it easy to detect code smells and other issues in terms of code quality and standards."
"It automatically scans for code, detects vulnerabilities, and generates daily reports."
 

Cons

"Contrast Security Protect needs to improve integration."
"There's room for improvement in the initial setup."
"Protect's reporting GUI is very basic. To get all statuses from the APIs, we needed to write our own KPI dashboard to provide reports."
"If there was an official Docker image of SonarQube that could easily integrate into the pipeline would help the user to plug in and plug out and use it directly without any custom configuration. I am not sure if this is being offered already in an update but it would be very helpful."
"We found a solution with dynamic testing, and are looking to find a solution that can be used for both types of testing."
"The product's user documentation can be vastly improved."
"The documentation needs improvement on optimizing build time for seamless CI/CD integration with our Android apps."
"It would be a great add-on if SonarQube could update its database for vulnerabilities or plugging parts."
"I have found this solution creates more noise than competitors."
"I am not very pleased with the technical debt computation."
"The documentation is not clear and it needs to be updated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There is both a free and licensed version. The free version has limitations on development languages and support."
"I rate the pricing a five out of ten."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"We have a license with 125,000 lines of code. We did not purchase a lot of lines but it is specific to our code environment."
"The current pricing is quite cheap."
"SonarQube is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."
"We pay €10 per month for this solution, which is good. It provides a good value for money."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
7%
Media Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise79
 

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Also Known As

Contrast Protect
Sonar, SonarQube Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.
Snowflake, Booking.com, Deutsche Bank, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.
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