Compare the Top Government Code Review Tools as of April 2025

What are Government Code Review Tools?

Code review tools are software tools designed to examine and analyze source code for errors, bugs, and vulnerabilities. They provide developers with detailed feedback on their code, highlighting areas that need improvement or optimization. These tools use a variety of techniques such as static analysis, unit testing, and peer review to ensure the quality and functionality of the code. In addition to identifying coding issues, they also help improve code security by detecting potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in the code. Code review tools are an essential part of the development process for any software project. Compare and read user reviews of the best Government Code Review tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Visual Expert
    Visual Expert is a static code analyzer for Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL, and PowerBuilder. Identify code dependencies to modify your code without breaking your application. Scan your code to improve the security, performance, and quality. Perform Impact analysis to Identify breaking changes. Automatically scan your code to detect and fix security vulnerabilities, bugs and maintenance Issues. Implement continuous code inspection Understand the inner workings of your code with call graphs, code diagrams, CRUD Matrix and Object Dependency Matrix (ODM). Automatically generate an HTML Source Code documentation. Explore your code exploration with hyperlinks Compare applications, databases or pieces of code. Improve maintainability. Clean up code. Comply with dev standards. Analyze and Improve DB code performance: Find slow objects and SQL queries, Optimize a slow object, a Chain of calls a slow SQL, Get a query Execution Plan. And much more.
    Starting Price: $495 per year
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    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub

    GitHub is the world’s most secure, most scalable, and most loved developer platform. Join millions of developers and businesses building the software that powers the world. Build with the world’s most innovative communities, backed by our best tools, support, and services. If you manage multiple contributors , there’s a free option: GitHub Team for Open Source. We also run GitHub Sponsors, where we help fund your work. The Pack is back. We’ve partnered up to give students and teachers free access to the best developer tools—for the school year and beyond. Work for a government-recognized nonprofit, association, or 501(c)(3)? Get a discounted Organization account on us.
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    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    Review Board
    Code review doesn't have to be so hard. Review Board takes the pain out of code review, saving you time, money, and sanity so you can focus on making great software. You can review just about anything. Code, documents, artwork, you name it! There's more to your project than just code. Documentation, artwork, website designs, interface mockups, release announcements, feature specifications, and the list goes on. A picture paints a thousand words, and can be key in a review. Drag-and-drop one or more images onto your review request to make them instantly reviewable. Your team will be able to click-and-drag anywhere on the image and leave a comment. When they do, you'll see their comment right along with that portion of the image. Made a tweak to the image? Just upload a new revision and view a visual diff of the changes through one of our many image diff modes. Sometimes you'll have other text content that's not part of your source tree.
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    Crucible

    Crucible

    Atlassian

    Ship high quality code. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects across SVN, Git, Mercurial, CVS, and Perforce. Create formal, workflow-based, or quick code reviews and assign reviewers from across your team. Turn any code review into a threaded discussion and comment on specific source lines, files, or an entire changeset. Take action on what's important with unified views into your code activity for commits, reviews, and comments. Improve code quality with data on which parts of your codebase have not been sufficiently reviewed. Get a quick view of review status and who might be holding up reviews. Access a complete audit trail with all code review details, down to the history of a specific review. Customize your Jira Software workflow to stop if there are any open reviews. Upgrade your workflow with Jira Software, Bitbucket Server, Bamboo and hundreds of other developer tools.
    Starting Price: $10 one-time payment
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    Code Search

    Code Search

    Sourcegraph

    With rapidly growing codebases, a proliferating number of repositories, multiple languages and file formats, and an increasing number of developer tools, Sourcegraph's Code Search enables developers to quickly explore and understand their code with precision and accuracy and automate large-scale code changes.
    Starting Price: $49/user/month
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    CodeScene

    CodeScene

    CodeScene

    CodeScene is a code analysis, visualization, and reporting tool. Cross reference contextual factors such as code quality, team dynamics, and delivery output to get actionable insights to effectively reduce technical debt and deliver better code quality. We enable software development teams to make confident, data-driven decisions that fuel performance and developer productivity. Supporting 28+ programming languages, CodeScene also offers an automated integration with GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps or GitLab pull requests to incorporate the analysis results into existing delivery workflows. Automate your code reviews, get early warnings and recommendations about complex code before merging it to the main branch and set quality gates to trigger in case your code health declines.
    Starting Price: €18 per active author/month
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    Review Assistant
    Review Assistant is a code review plug-in for Visual Studio. Our code review tool allows you to create review requests and respond to them without leaving Visual Studio. Devart’s Review Assistant supports TFS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce. Setup includes unlimited 30-day trial and a free plan. Get up and running in 5 minutes. Our product can be a great review assistant on the way to code flawlessness! Most developers do not like to switch between their IDEs and other tools while working on a code. Knowing this, we have integrated the code review process into the development environment as far as possible. You can now create review comments directly from the code editor. The Code Review Board window displays created reviews and allows you to manage them. What is more, Code Review Board contains all code-related discussions.
    Starting Price: $349.95
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    SonarQube Cloud

    SonarQube Cloud

    SonarSource

    Maximize your throughput and only release clean code SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) automatically analyzes branches and decorates pull requests. Catch tricky bugs to prevent undefined behavior from impacting end-users. Fix vulnerabilities that compromise your app, and learn AppSec along the way with Security Hotspots. With just a few clicks you're up and running right where your code lives. Immediate access to the latest features and enhancements. Project dashboards keep teams and stakeholders informed on code quality and releasability. Display project badges and show your communities you're all about awesome. Code Quality and Code Security is a concern for your entire stack, from front-end to back-end. That’s why we cover 24 languages including Python, Java, C++, and many others. Transparency makes sense and that's why the trend is growing. Come join the fun, it's entirely free for open-source projects!
    Starting Price: €10 per month
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    Upsource

    Upsource

    JetBrains

    Automate your workflow, let Upsource analyze your code and track the progress, while you focus on improvements. Participate in discussions and manage your reviews without leaving the comfort of your IDE. Explore new changes in the browser with IDE-like navigation, reply by email, and never miss an important change. Discuss changes, @mention others, react to comments, and unlock achievements as you discover new features and help your teammates! Easily make Upsource part of your process, integrate it with issue trackers, CI servers, and sync with GitHub. Don’t worry about outgrowing Upsource! No matter how large your team becomes or how many projects you have, Upsource can handle it. Whether you're looking for a code review tool, insight into your projects' history, or a place to collaborate or expand your developer expertise, Upsource has got you covered!
    Starting Price: $1,300 per 25 users
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    Gerrit Code Review
    Read old and new versions of files with syntax highlighting and colored differences. Discuss specific sections with others to make the right changes. Gerrit includes Git-enabled SSH and HTTPS servers compatible with all Git clients. Simplify management by hosting many Git repositories together. Schedule git gc over all managed repositories and replicate to geographical mirrors for latency reduction and backup servers for hot spare redundancy. Gerrit Code Review can be extended and further customized by installing server-side plugins. Source code for additional plugins can be found through the project listing.
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    Launchpad

    Launchpad

    Launchpad

    It brings communities together — regardless of their choice of tools — by making it easy to share code, bug reports, translations and ideas across projects. With Launchpad, you can share bug reports, statuses, patches and comments across project boundaries. You can even share bug data with other trackers, such as Bugzilla and Trac. There's also everything else you need in a bug tracker: web, email and API interfaces, links between bugs and fixes, team-based delegation and more. When they're ready, they can upload their branch to Launchpad and propose it for merging back into your trunk. Code review — by web and email — gives you a public forum to discuss and approve or reject the merge. Launchpad makes translation easy for everyone. Translators get a simple web interface, with automatic suggestions from a library of more than 16 million strings.
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    CodeSee

    CodeSee

    CodeSee

    Quickly identify cross-code dependencies and navigate between files and folders. With insights to improve your understanding of the codebase and guide onboarding, planning, and reviews. Auto-generated, self-updating software architecture diagrams that sync to the codebase as your code evolves. With features to help you understand how files and folders are connected, see how a change fits into the larger architecture, and more. CodeSee Maps are automatically generated and updated every time a code change is merged, so you never have to worry about manually refreshing your Map. Using the Maps Insights panel, you can quickly visualize the most active areas of the codebase and get details on individual files and folders, including their age and how many lines of code they represent. Create visual walkthroughs of your code, using Tours to communicate ideal code paths, user flows, and more—and Tour Alerts will help you to ensure your Tours are always up to date.
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    Reviewable

    Reviewable

    Reviewable

    You've found the right code review tool. Tracks where par­tic­i­pants stand on each dis­cus­sion, en­sur­ing it won't dis­ap­pear un­til re­solved. Fully cus­tomiz­able logic de­ter­mines when a re­view is com­plete. Clearly shows net deltas since last time you looked, even if com­mits got re­based or amended. Batches com­ments and cor­rectly threads email re­sponses. Works only with GitHub and GitHub En­ter­prise, mak­ing for a seam­less in­te­gra­tion. Min­i­mal ad­min busy­work, no ex­tra fluff — just awe­some code re­views. In­stantly diff any two re­vi­sions of a file, in uni­fied or side-by-side style. Hide mi­nor changes: white­space, merge, and re­base deltas. Cus­tomize mar­gin, fonts, col­ors, key­board short­cuts, etc. Jump from a com­ment straight to the right spot in your fa­vorite ed­i­tor. Line com­ments map across file re­vi­sions and stay in place un­til re­solved, not just un­til changes are pushed. Mod­ern, clean UI with a touch of whimsy.
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