# Plato Reviews **Vendor:** FreeCAD **Category:** [Static Code Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 3 ## About Plato JavaScript Source Analysis ## Plato Reviews ### 1. A simple JavaScript static analysis tool that requires little setup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 29, 2016 **What do you like best about Plato?** I like that this tool is extremely easy to install and use. You can get up and running within 10 minutes. Almost every JavaScript developer already has node installed so it is a simple global module installation and you have access to the plato command. When you run the command pointing it to your JavaScript files, HTML pages are generated containing the static analysis reports. There are a lot of great charts and useful metrics on what JavaScript files might be too complicated and need refactoring. You can dive into each file and it will suggest potential issues as well for each line of code. If you want to impress your team with some neat and useful tooling, this is one I'd use. I also like the fact that Plato maintains a JSON file containing a history of scores for every time you ran it. With that, you can put a process on your CI server that runs Plato and you can check if the maintainability score went up or down on every commit and do things like trigger failed builds if the new commits decrease the project maintainability scores by too much. **What do you dislike about Plato?** I wish the "Average Maintainability" metric provided tips on how to improve your score. I have heard that not many projects get over 80, but sometimes I don't know what I can do to improve the application's maintainability score. **Recommendations to others considering Plato:** The time and learning investment is small, so why not try it? **What problems is Plato solving and how is that benefiting you?** My teams in the past have used Plato as one way to evaluate the quality of our JavaScript before and after refactoring and as a way to constantly monitor it as new code is added to the project. Because this tool keeps a history of every time it was ran, you can see if your JavaScript quality goes up or down. I have used it to identify potential problems in my code and quickly assess which files need refactoring since Plato points this out in red. ### 2. Great tool to get statistics about your code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Federico R. | Senior Software Engineer, E-Learning, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2016 **What do you like best about Plato?** Plato is a great tool to generate statistics like Number of lines of code, estimated bugs per line and maintainability. It does the job and the CLI utility is easy to use and generates a nice HTML report. **What do you dislike about Plato?** It's lacking support for ES6 features - it can't be used with codebases which use Babel to take advantage of ES6 features. **Recommendations to others considering Plato:** Plato is a great oss library and provides useful stats about your code **What problems is Plato solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Plato to provide stats about a project in the accompanying documentation. It's also really useful to get a starting idea about the quality of project's source. ### 3. Good tool for continous code quality control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mikhail S. | UI Team Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Plato?** Easy setup and great visualization of code complexity, JSHint integration. **What do you dislike about Plato?** Very little metrics. Basically, it counts "source lines of code" and "cyclomatic complexity" and build couple of synthetic indices based on that metrics. **What problems is Plato solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plato gives you nice visual overview of project's code quality and helps to spot problematic modules. It's useful for senior developer or project leads as part of code review process and refactoring planing. Plato automatically collects historical data on average maintainability of a project, which can be used for evaluation of development team's performance. - [View Plato pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/plato/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-18+18%3A12%3A12+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f1e34762-180b-497a-a102-aef37895b803&secure%5Btoken%5D=ea4b6f279d1eaf2fb5457852bb06a4670d0a5edaf31b0ae03b5c71e0fac97b0c&format=llm_user) ## Plato Features **Agentic AI - Static Code Analysis** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Plato Alternatives - [Gearset DevOps](https://www.g2.com/products/gearset-devops/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (290 reviews) - [OpsPilot](https://www.g2.com/products/opspilot/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (174 reviews) - [SonarQube](https://www.g2.com/products/sonarqube/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (140 reviews)