How Iris Code compares
Iris Code analyses on your machine, blocks a bad push before CI is involved, and covers private repositories on the free tier. These pages set that against the tools it gets weighed against, and name the cases where the alternative wins.
One is a platform you run. The other is an extension you install.
Iris Code gives you secrets scanning, duplicate detection, dependency CVEs and a push that fails on your own machine, from an extension you install in under a minute with no server behind it. SonarQube is the heavier tool and earns it in places: thirty-plus languages, taint analysis, and the compliance reporting an auditor expects.
One answers the same way every time. The other has an opinion.
Iris Code checks code against fixed rules and returns the same verdict every run, on your machine, with no repository access and nothing to pay per run. That is what lets it block a push.
Iris Code never asks for your repository. That is the whole difference.
Iris Code runs in your editor, on your machine, and blocks the push from there. Nothing is uploaded, no app is installed on your Git provider, and private repositories are covered on the free tier because analysis never leaves the laptop.
ESLint checks how a line is written. Iris Code checks what the file has become.
Iris Code finds the things a linter was never built to look for: a credential in the source, the same block pasted into four files, a dependency with a known CVE, and a health score that drops when the codebase degrades. It does that across ten languages, not just JavaScript.
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Skip the reading and try it.
The free tier needs no account and no repository access. Fifteen seconds to install, and it scores the file you already have open.
Catch regressions before human review
Install Iris Code, set a threshold, and make every change answer to the same deterministic rules. Source analysis runs locally. The same rules run in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the iris CLI, hooks, and CI.