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Prove the business value of good Code Health

Calculate the ROI of code quality

Turn Code Health into business value. Quantify how improved Code Health scores leads to faster development and fewer defects.

Make a business case for code quality

Translate Code Health scores into business value

How much can you gain by improving your code health? Use the calculator to estimate your ROI in terms of faster development and fewer defects.

Our award-winning model translates Code Health into business value and received Best Paper at the 7th ACM/IEEE TechDebt Conference. Read the peer-reviewed study: "Increasing, not Diminishing: Investigating the Returns of Highly Maintainable Code

How do I use the calculator to measure productivity loss or gain from Code Health?

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Defensive prevention

Stop the decline in Code Health by setting a minimum quality threshold. Use the calculator to quantify the cost you avoid by preventing decay. Poor Code Health means longer dev cycles, more bugs, and growing technical debt.

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ROI of Improving Code Health

Use the calculator to project the business impact of improving Code Health. See how better code quality improves dev speed, reduces rework, and creates measurable ROI. Healthy code means faster teams and fewer bugs.

How healthy is the average codebase?

Industry benchmarks

Find benchmarks for your industry and compare your codebase health.

Sector Average Code Health score ? Hotspots Code Health ? Top 5% of organizations ?
Sector Industrial & Technological Average Code Health score ? 7.85 Hotspots Code Health ? 5.15 Top 5% of organizations ? 9.1
Sector Professional services & education Average Code Health score ? 8.55 Hotspots Code Health ? 7.45 Top 5% of organizations ? 9.72
Sector Consumer & Hospitality industries Average Code Health score ? 7.34 Hotspots Code Health ? 7.26 Top 5% of organizations ? 9.8
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CodeScene identifies and prioritizes the biggest bottlenecks in our projects, highlighting code improvements that have the greatest impact on development and maintenance.
Maarten Metz
Principal Software Engineer, Philips

CodeHealth™

Low Code Health scores lead to longer development

Our Code Health metric is the only code-level metric in the industry proven to link code quality to business value. It is validated through peer-reviewed research showing that unhealthy code leads to development times that are twice as long and results in 15 times more defects.

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With CodeScene,
your teams can achieve

Follow the lead of top-performing engineering teams, start improving code health with CodeScene. Deliver faster, on time, and with higher quality.

Ship healthier code and prevent up to 15x more defects before they happen

15x

Fewer bugs

Speed up delivery by 2x by addressing productivity bottlenecks

2x

Faster feature delivery

Reduce delivery risks by up to 9x with better Code Health

9x

More likely to deliver on time

Customer case studies

Real customers, real results

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Carterra reduces unplanned work by 82% over a twelve-month period

CodeScene helps Carterra, a prominent biotech research firm, in identifying high-risk code files currently undergoing development. It also provides refactoring recommendations to enhance code health and address technical debt by focusing on areas with significant impact.

Read Carterra's success story
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VidMob reduces unplanned work by 50% after only two months

VidMob boosts remote team collaboration and efficiency with CodeScene. By tracking tasks and team structure, they enhance onboarding and transparency. CodeScene also helps the teams prioritize development and refactoring efforts to areas that will have the biggest impact and return on investment.

Read VidMob's case study

Tools for smarter code improvement

Improve Code Health in daily development

Refactoring targets

Focus refactoring efforts on codebase areas that matter most

Pinpoint the most complex and frequently changed areas of your codebase and prioritize refactoring efforts effectively. Reduce technical debt and enhance overall code quality where it matters.

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Enforce code quality, empower developers

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IDE extension

Devs receive real-time code health feedback on issues they can act on while writing code. Automatically detects 20+ code smells in your local environment. Only push healthy code.

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Automated code reviews

Teams set code quality standards, and CodeScene enforces them with automated code reviews. Code Health checks act as a coach and quality gate, preventing technical debt and other code quality issues entering your codebase.

See how it works
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CLI tool

Run CodeScene analyses directly in your terminal. The CLI tool enables automation, seamless integration into your workflows, and quick access to insights without leaving your development environment.

Learn more about CLI

Frequently asked questions

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What is Code Health and why does it matter?

Code Health is a high-level indicator of how easy or difficult it is to work with a piece of code. It reflects factors like complexity, readability, and coupling. Poor code health slows development, increases the risk of bugs, and makes it harder to onboard new developers. Improving Code Health boosts productivity and reduces maintenance costs. Read more about Code Health

How does CodeScene calculate ROI from Code Health improvements?

CodeScene uses statistical models trained on industry data to estimate how changes in Code Health affect key business metrics. These include the number of defects prevented and the increase in developer capacity — for example, how much faster your team can deliver new features. The ROI calculator gives you a preview of these gains based on real data. Read our peer-reviewed research

Can Code Health actually reduce defects and speed up development?

Yes. Our peer-reviewed research "Code Red: Business impact of code quality" investigates 39 commercial codebases from various industries and domains. The finding are peer reviewed, statistically significant, and reproducible. All metrics were automated via CodeScene. The results show that code quality has a dramatic impact on, both, time-to-market as well as the external quality of the product. High quality (healthy) code has: A. 15 times fewer bugs, B. twice the development speed, and C. 9 times lower uncertainty in completion time. Read the research

What makes CodeScene different from other code analysis tools?

While traditional tools focus on syntax and style issues, CodeScene looks at the big picture. It combines code analysis with behavioral data — such as how the code evolves over time — to prioritize what matters most. And unlike other tools, it connects technical improvements directly to business outcomes like ROI, developer efficiency, and defect reduction. Our CodeHealth™ metric is proven to be 6x more accurate than SonarQube. Read the benchmark study

How can my team use CodeScene to prioritize refactorings?

CodeScene identifies the parts of your codebase that are both unhealthy and frequently changed — these are your high-impact refactoring targets. By improving them, you get the most return for the least effort. You can use Code Health scores and ROI projections to justify technical work and align your team’s efforts with business goals. Read the use case

See how Code Health drives real ROI

Quantify the impact of better code quality on development speed, defect rates, and delivery outcomes.