Compare Uptime Kuma and Codacy on pricing, features, platforms, and ratings — both DevOps tools, open-source vs Freemium: free plan for individual developers…
At a Glance
Uptime Kuma
Codacy
Primary category
DevOps
DevOps
Rating
Not documented
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Pricing model
open-source
Freemium: free plan for individual developers and open-source projects, paid per-developer monthly plans for teams, custom enterprise pricing
Starting price
Free
Free Developer plan; Team plan from $18 per developer per month billed annually
Free plan
Yes
Not documented
Free trial
Not documented
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Platforms
Web, Windows
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Team collaboration
Not documented
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AI features
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Public API
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Pricing Compared
Starting price reflects the lowest paid tier, not the full cost for every team size or usage level.
Uptime Kuma
Open Source — Free n/a
Codacy
Developer — $0 Free forever
Team — From $18 per developer per month billed annually, or $21 per developer per month billed monthly Monthly or annual
Business — Custom, contact sales Annual
Pros & Cons
Uptime Kuma
Pros
Completely free and open source with the MIT License and no feature restrictions
Supports a very wide range of monitor types compared to many commercial competitors
Large, active GitHub community with frequent updates and over 88,000 stars
Modern, fast, reactive dashboard with light and dark mode
Extensive notification integrations covering more than 90 services
Cons
Requires self-hosting and ongoing server maintenance, unlike managed SaaS monitoring tools
No official managed cloud version from the core maintainer, so uptime of the monitor itself depends on the user's own infrastructure
Advanced enterprise features like SLA reporting and team role management are more limited than commercial alternatives
Community support model rather than dedicated paid support channels
Codacy
Pros
Broad language coverage across 49 languages under one unified dashboard
Combines code quality and security scanning in a single platform
Free forever tier for individual developers and open-source projects
IDE plugin catches issues before code is even committed
AI-specific guardrails address a growing need as AI-generated code increases
Cons
Business-tier features like DAST, container scanning, and SSO require custom pricing not published openly
Per-developer pricing can become expensive for larger teams once past the free or open-source tier
Aggregating many underlying linters can occasionally produce noisy or duplicate findings that need tuning
Team plan caps out at around 30 developers before the Business tier is required
Some advanced security features, like license scanning and daily CVE re-scans, are reserved for the top tier
Use Cases
Uptime Kuma
Self-hosted website monitoring — Individuals and small teams monitor their websites and APIs for downtime without paying for a SaaS monitoring subscription.
Home lab and NAS monitoring — Home lab enthusiasts run Uptime Kuma alongside other self-hosted services to track their availability on a home server or NAS.
Public status pages for services — Teams publish a status page built on Uptime Kuma to communicate uptime and incidents to their users transparently.
Codacy
Automated pull request reviews — Engineering teams use Codacy to enforce quality gates and catch issues automatically before code merges.
Security and dependency scanning — Teams use Codacy to find vulnerabilities and outdated dependencies before they reach production.
Open-source project quality tracking — Maintainers use the free tier to track code quality and security on public repositories.