# Sonar

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sonar/  
**Website:** https://www.sonarsource.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

Sonar (SonarSource) provides code quality and security analysis tools for developers. Products include SonarQube (self-hosted), SonarCloud (cloud-hosted), and SonarLint (IDE plugin), offering continuous inspection through static code analysis across 30+ programming languages.

## Kin Score — 39.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 69.2 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 33.2 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **SonarQube Web API** — REST API for interacting with SonarQube Server, enabling management of projects, quality gates, issues, rules, users, and CI/CD integrations. Uses token-based authentication.
- **Sonar Issues API** — Code issue search and management
- **Sonar Measures API** — Component metrics and measurement data
- **Sonar Organizations API** — Organization management and discovery
- **Sonar Projects API** — Project search and management within organizations
- **Sonar Quality Gates API** — Quality gate configuration and status
- **Sonar User Tokens API** — API token generation and management

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Sonar Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Sonar Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Sonar Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Sonar Plans Pricing**

## Tags

CI/CD, Code Quality, DevOps, Security, SonarCloud, SonarQube, Static Analysis

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/sonar/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.