Qlty

Qlty is a code quality and coverage platform from the team behind Code Climate. It pairs the free Qlty CLI - a polyglot Rust tool for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, and maintainability analysis - with Qlty Cloud, a hosted service for automated pull request review, code coverage upload, quality gates, and dashboards.

Qlty publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: CLI, Coverage Upload, and Cloud API. Tagged areas include Code Quality, Code Coverage, Static Analysis, Linting, and Developer Tools.

Qlty’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 7 more developer resources.

32.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
3 APIs
Code QualityCode CoverageStatic AnalysisLintingDeveloper Tools

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 32.5/100 · thin
Contract Quality 8.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Qlty CLI

The free Qlty CLI is a polyglot, Rust-based command-line tool for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, code smells, duplication, and maintainability metrics. I...

Qlty Coverage Upload

Coverage publishing is performed by the Qlty CLI command qlty coverage publish, which uploads test coverage reports to Qlty Cloud from a CI pipeline. It authenticates with a per...

Qlty Cloud API

Qlty Cloud is the hosted platform that analyzes pull requests, posts automated code review comments on newly introduced issues, enforces quality gates, aggregates coverage, and ...

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Qlty

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Qlty Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Qlty Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Qlty Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Qlty Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Qlty Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: qlty
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qlty/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Qlty
kind: company
description: Qlty is a code quality and coverage platform from the team behind Code Climate. It pairs the free Qlty CLI -
  a polyglot Rust tool for universal linting, auto-formatting, security scanning, and maintainability analysis - with Qlty
  Cloud, a hosted service for automated pull request review, code coverage upload, quality gates, and dashboards.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/qlty.png
tags:
- Code Quality
- Code Coverage
- Static Analysis
- Linting
- Developer Tools
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: qlty:qlty-cli
  name: Qlty CLI
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Linting
  - Formatting
  - Static Analysis
  - Maintainability
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.qlty.sh/cli/quickstart
  baseURL: https://qlty.sh
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.qlty.sh/cli/quickstart
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://github.com/qltysh/qlty
    type: SourceCode
  - url: openapi/qlty-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The free Qlty CLI is a polyglot, Rust-based command-line tool for universal linting, auto-formatting, security
    scanning, code smells, duplication, and maintainability metrics. It runs 70+ static analysis tools across 40+ languages
    natively (no Docker), is configured via a .qlty/qlty.toml file, and is free for all use including commercial projects.
    The CLI is a local developer tool, not an HTTP API; key commands include qlty init, qlty check, qlty fmt, qlty smells,
    qlty metrics, and qlty coverage publish.
- aid: qlty:qlty-coverage-upload
  name: Qlty Coverage Upload
  tags:
  - Code Coverage
  - Upload
  - CI/CD
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.qlty.sh/coverage/quickstart
  baseURL: https://qlty.sh
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.qlty.sh/coverage/quickstart
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.qlty.sh/coverage/generating-data
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/qlty-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Coverage publishing is performed by the Qlty CLI command qlty coverage publish, which uploads test coverage
    reports to Qlty Cloud from a CI pipeline. It authenticates with a per-project QLTY_COVERAGE_TOKEN environment variable
    and accepts standard report formats including lcov, Cobertura, Clover, JaCoCo, SimpleCov, dotCover, and xccov-json. Qlty
    does not publish a documented public REST endpoint for coverage upload; ingestion is handled through the CLI / GitHub
    Action.
- aid: qlty:qlty-cloud
  name: Qlty Cloud API
  tags:
  - Cloud
  - Pull Request Review
  - Quality Gates
  - Dashboards
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://docs.qlty.sh/what-is-qlty
  baseURL: https://qlty.sh
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.qlty.sh/what-is-qlty
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://qlty.sh/
    type: Website
  - url: openapi/qlty-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: Qlty Cloud is the hosted platform that analyzes pull requests, posts automated code review comments on newly
    introduced issues, enforces quality gates, aggregates coverage, and renders trends and dashboards. It is consumed primarily
    through Git provider integrations (GitHub App / Action) and the web app rather than a documented public REST API; no public
    HTTP API surface is published as of this catalog entry.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qlty-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/qlty-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/qltysh
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/qltysh
- type: Website
  url: https://qlty.sh/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.qlty.sh
- type: Plans
  url: plans/qlty-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/qlty-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/qlty-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://qlty.sh/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com