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CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 30, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

CAST Application Intelligen...
Ranking in Software Development Analytics
3rd
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SonarQube Server (formerly ...
Ranking in Software Development Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (1st), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Software Development Analytics category, the mindshare of CAST Application Intelligence Platform is 33.5%, up from 25.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) is 47.8%, up from 46.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Development Analytics
 

Q&A Highlights

JB
May 23, 2023
 

Featured Reviews

Jayanti Rode - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2022
Application Intelligence Platform that offers useful insights into violations and improvements
There are different products of the CAST solution that we use for different reasons. For quality improvement, we use CAST AIP which is an Application Intelligence Platform. We have a health dashboard where we can view improvements and violations that have been fixed.  Our clients use CAST Highlight…
Wang Dayong - PeerSpot reviewer
May 10, 2023
Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages
We use the product to review our software codes. We have integrated the product to review our new delivery code When we deliver a code, the solution scans the code and reports whether the code has bugs or any other vulnerability issues. Thus the solution helps us identify issues and improve the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients."
"The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."
"It supports most programming languages."
"CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform."
"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."
"Code Convention: Using the tool to implement some sort of coding convention is really useful and ensures that the code is consistent no matter how many contributors."
"Engineers have also learned from the results and have improved themselves as engineers. This will help them with their careers."
"The product has a friendly UI that is easy to use and understand."
"Improve the code coverage and evaluates the technical steps and percentage of code being resolved."
"This solution has the capability to analyze source code in almost all the languages in the market."
"It provides the security that is required from a solution for financial businesses."
"It is a good deal compared to all other tools on the market."
"SonarQube is scalable. My company has 50 users."
 

Cons

"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."
"The integration of this solution could be improved."
"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed."
"Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex."
"Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues."
"If I configure a project in SonarQube, it generates a token. When we're compiling our code with SonarQube, we have to provide the token for security reasons. If IP-based connectivity is established with the solution, the project should automatically be populated without providing any additional token. It will be easy to provide just the IP address. It currently supports this functionality, but it makes a different branch in the project dashboard. From the configuration and dashboard point of view, it should have some transformations. There can be dashboard integration so that we can configure the dashboard for different purposes."
"You may need to purchase add-ons to get the useability you desire."
"The product's user documentation can be vastly improved."
"The reporting can be improved."
"Their dashboarding is very limited. They can improve their dashboards for multiple areas, such as security review, maintainability, etc. They have all this information, so they should publish all this information on the dashboard so that the users can view the summary and then analyze it further. This is something that I would like to see in the next version."
"The product needs to integrate other security tools for security scanning."
"It would be a great add-on if SonarQube could update its database for vulnerabilities or plugging parts."
"SonarQube could be improved by implementing inter-procedural code analysis capabilities, allowing for a more comprehensive detection of defects and vulnerabilities across the entire codebase."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."
"We have a license with 125,000 lines of code. We did not purchase a lot of lines but it is specific to our code environment."
"We use the tool's community edition."
"We are using the free, unlicensed version."
"The price of this solution is more expensive than competitors. However, it works better than competitors."
"We're using an older version because it is the open-source flavor of it and we can continue using it at no cost. We're not paying any licensing at all, which was another factor in choosing this route so that we can learn and grow with it and not be committed to licenses and other similar things. If we choose to get something else, we have to relearn, but we don't have to relicense. Basically, we're paying no license costs."
"We are using the community version of the solution and we plan on purchasing licenses for the upgraded version soon. There is a limitation on how many lines of code can be scanned and this is why we are going to purchase a license for an increased amount."
"SonarQube is a cost-effective solution."
"Some of the plugins that were previously free are not free now."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
13%
Insurance Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platfor...
What needs improvement with CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering iss...
What is your primary use case for CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architecture detection.
Is SonarQube the best tool for static analysis?
I am not very familiar with SonarQube and their solutions, so I can not answer. But if you are asking me about which tools that are the best for for Static Code Analysis, I suggest you have a look...
Which gives you more for your money - SonarQube or Veracode?
SonarQube is easy to deploy and configure, and also integrates well with other tools to do quality code analysis. SonarQube has a great community edition, which is open-source and free. Easy to use...
How would you decide between Coverity and Sonarqube?
We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing rem...
 

Also Known As

CAST AIP
Sonar
 

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Sample Customers

Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
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