What is a full repo scan?

Diff analysis tells you about today's change. A full scan tells you the state of everything, which is what you need for a security baseline, a compliance report or a first look at an unfamiliar codebase.

Full scans are slower and produce the intimidating initial number, so most teams run them on a schedule and gate on diffs, using the baseline for reporting and the diff for enforcement.

What to look for

Scan duration on a repository the size of yours
Whether a full scan requires CI configuration or runs from the cloud
How the initial baseline can be accepted so only new issues are actioned
Any repository size or lines-of-code limits on your plan

Best 19 code quality, security and code review tools with full repo scans

Every tool in the directory whose documentation covers this, 17 fully and 2 partially. Full support is shown first. Shown in a random order that changes on every visit, so no tool gets an advantage from its position.

Support is not the same as parity, since some implementations are narrower in scope, gated to a higher plan tier, or maintained only for existing customers. The note under each tool is what its own documentation describes.

Code Security Platform

Aikido

Six repo scanners: SCA, SAST, secrets, license, IaC, malware

AI Coding Agent

ChatGPT / Codex

Codex Security scans full repos, selected paths, or org-wide bulk campaigns.

Code Security Platform

Checkmarx One

Repository or zip scans up to 22M LOC; SAST and API Security also support incremental delta scans.

AI Coding Agent

Claude Code

/claude-security plugin scans a whole codebase; verifier agents confirm findings before reporting.

Code Quality Platform

Codacy

Unlimited cloud scans with no pipeline integration required; full scan within minutes of signup.

PR Review Tool

CodeAnt AI

Scan Center runs repository-wide security and quality scans, with batch scanning for large repos

PR Review Tool

CodeRabbit

AI Deep Scan analyzes full committed source and IaC; separately billed usage-based product

Code Quality Platform

CodeScene

Whole-repository hotspot, code health and architectural analysis, with X-Ray function-level drill-down

Code Security Platform

Corgea

Baseline scan mode from Free tier

PR Review Tool

Cursor (Bugbot)

Security Agents scan codebases for vulnerabilities; Cursor's docs have no dedicated feature page or configuration detail for them.

Code Quality Platform

DeepSource

Every commit to the default branch is analyzed; languages auto-detected on repository activation.

Code Security Platform

GitHub Advanced Security

Default-branch code scanning, secret scanning across full Git history of every branch, org-wide secret risk assessment

Code Quality Platform

Qlty

qlty check --all locally; Cloud analyzes the whole default branch on a schedule

Code Security Platform

Semgrep

Full scans cover the entire codebase and are recommended on a schedule against the default branch.

Code Security Platform

Snyk

SCM import scans whole repos into Snyk Projects; Free capped at 5 projects.

Code Quality Platform

SonarQube

Full codebase analysis in CI/CD via SonarScanner CLI, Maven, Gradle, Python, .NET scanners.

Code Security Platform

Veracode

Upload and Scan of packaged artifacts; repository scanning on push across all org repos

PR Review Tool

Greptile

Indexes entire repo graph and knowledge base as review context; findings remain PR-scoped

PR Review Tool

Qodo

Context Engine indexes whole codebase and cross-repo relationships; findings surfaced are PR-scoped

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