Sonar announced it has acquired Gitar, an AI-native code review platform, expanding its code verification capabilities to include AI-powered code review. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition is designed to combine Gitar’s agentic AI code review technology with Sonar’s multilayered code verification platform, enabling enterprises to review, validate, and secure AI-generated code throughout the software development lifecycle.
Sonar said Gitar will integrate with SonarQube to provide code review capabilities from the moment AI agents begin writing code through deployment into production codebases. The company said the combined platform is built for the “agentic era” of software development, where AI coding agents are increasingly responsible for generating and modifying code.
According to Sonar, more than 75% of the Fortune 100 and over 7 million developers and AI agents currently use SonarQube for code quality, security, and governance. The company cited internal data showing teams using Sonar are 44% less likely to experience outages caused by AI-generated code.
Gitar was founded by Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai and Gautam Korlam, who previously helped build Uber’s centralized developer platform. Both executives will join Sonar and continue leading development of the Gitar platform. Sonar said Gitar will remain available as a standalone product while also being offered alongside SonarQube and SonarQube Advanced Security.
The acquisition also strengthens Sonar’s broader push into AI-assisted software development and agentic coding infrastructure. Over the past year, Sonar has launched several products focused on AI code verification, security, architecture enforcement, and remediation workflows.
KEY QUOTES:
“Enterprise adoption of AI depends on strong verification of agentic output. Right now, every enterprise is asking the same question: ‘How do we move fast with AI without breaking things?’ Now, enterprises will have a unified platform that brings together the best of AI code review and the most comprehensive verification engine in the market, providing the highest level of assurance whether you’re using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, or GitHub Copilot.”
Tariq Shaukat, CEO, Sonar
“While the market chased AI code generation, we focused on the harder problem: validating it. We built Gitar because we saw firsthand what happens when development velocity outpaces code quality. AI has made that problem an order of magnitude bigger. We’re deeply proud of what we’ve built at Gitar, and excited to bring that work into Sonar. Together, we’ll deliver the greatest, unbeatable verification platform for the agentic era.”
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, CEO, Gitar
