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IN THE FIELD GUIDE

Debtdrone

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DebtDrone is an automated technical debt and code complexity scanner that supports twelve programming languages. It offers both a local CLI and a hosted cloud service that integrates with GitHub to provide continuous analysis, health grades, and remediation suggestions within development workflows.

THE PRODUCT, BEYOND THE PITCH

Editorially reviewed · Sources checked Oct 3, 2026

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A good fit for

  • Professional software teams shipping daily who need advanced metrics, GitHub automation, and AI-assisted remediation.
  • Hobbyists and side projects needing basic debt analysis with limited scans and repositories.

Know the limitations

  • Local CLI runs without account or repository access and does not provide stored reports or trends over time.

What you can do

  • Technical debt detection and management in software projects across multiple languages.
  • Security vulnerability and secret scanning integrated into development workflows.

Features

  • AST-backed scanning for code complexity and technical debt across multiple languages.
  • Integration with GitHub for repository connection and pull request automation.
  • Algorithmic and cognitive complexity analysis including cyclomatic complexity and cognitive scores per function.
  • Trivy-powered security scanning for vulnerabilities and secret detection in dependencies.
  • Estimated remediation effort in hours for each finding to help plan technical debt paydown.

Integrations

  • Integrates with GitHub, Jira, and Trello; GitLab integration coming soon.

Platforms & data export

  • Supports uploading and processing test coverage reports in lcov, Cobertura, JaCoCo, Clover, SimpleCov, and Go coverage formats.

THE COST FOR YOUR TEAM

Go beyond the starting price.

Published plan prices for your team size and usage. Results update as you type. Taxes, currency conversion and unlisted add-ons are excluded, and anything the source did not state is called out rather than guessed.

Cheapest fit for 1 person, all 1 tools

$25.00/month

$300.00 a year on these plans.

Some figures carry conditions the vendor did not state — see the notes beside each plan.

Plan costs based on your requirements
Tool / planMonthlyPer yearWhat this assumes
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Flat subscription

$29.00$348.00

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Pro YearlyCheapest fit

Flat subscription

$25.00$300.00
  • · Only annual billing is published; shown as the monthly equivalent of the annual price. Paying month to month may cost more.

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Enterprise

Flat subscription

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A practical workflow

  1. Create an account with no credit card and no repository access initially.
  2. Connect GitHub and select repositories to scan by installing the GitHub App.
  3. Run and review the first scan to get a health grade, ranked findings, and remediation cost estimates.

Based on the sources below. Editorial review does not imply hands-on product testing.

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