Checkmarx One vs CodeSonar comparison

Checkmarx and CodeSecure are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. Checkmarx is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.8, while CodeSecure is ranked #34 with an average rating of 7.0. Checkmarx holds a 10.7% mindshare in AS, compared to CodeSecure’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Checkmarx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of CodeSecure users who would recommend it.

Checkmarx One

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87% willing to recommend

CodeSonar

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87% willing to recommend

Checkmarx One

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Checkmarx One and CodeSonar are widely used in the security software market. CodeSonar takes the lead due to its robust features and effectiveness, making it a preferred choice for users seeking comprehensive analysis.

Features: Checkmarx One integrates seamlessly with other tools, offers competitive pricing, and provides strong customer support. CodeSonar boasts comprehensive analysis, high detection accuracy, and the ability to identify deep-seated vulnerabilities.

Room for Improvement: Checkmarx One needs to enhance speed and performance for larger projects, refine its feature set for detailed analysis, and improve customer service response. CodeSonar could benefit from a more intuitive reporting dashboard, optimize its deployment complexity, and enhance certain user interface aspects.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Checkmarx One is easy to deploy with mixed customer service responsiveness. CodeSonar's deployment is more complex, but reliable support helps facilitate the process and mitigates any difficulties.

Pricing and ROI: Checkmarx One offers cost-effectiveness for tight budgets, providing quick ROI. CodeSonar, though more expensive, justifies its cost with long-term security benefits and substantial risk reduction, delivering value over a longer period.

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Checkmarx One

Ranking in Application Security Tools

3rd

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

2nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (3rd), Vulnerability Management (21st), API Security (3rd), DevSecOps (2nd), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (8th)

CodeSonar

Ranking in Application Security Tools

34th

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

8th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Checkmarx One is 10.7%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CodeSonar is 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rohit Kesharwani

Manager, Engineering at 7-Eleven.

Provides good security analysis and security identification within the source code

We integrate Checkmarx into our software development cycle using GitLab's CI/CD pipeline. Checkmark has been the most helpful for us in the development stage. The solution's incremental scanning feature has impacted our development speed. The solution's vulnerability detection is around 80% to 90% accurate. I would recommend Checkmarx to other users because it is one of the good tools for doing security analysis and security identification within the source code. Overall, I rate Checkmarx a nine out of ten.

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Mathieu ALBRESPY

Intigration Developer at ez-Wheel

Nice interface, quick to deploy, and easy to expand

This is the first time I've used this kind of software. It was the only one we could apply to analyze with MISRA rules. At my new company, I tried to use Klocwork. I tried to use it, just once so I cannot compare it exactly with CodeSonar. I also have a plugin for my Visual Studio and I try to make it work. It's not easy, however, I don't think that we have this kind of functionality with CodeSonar. It can do some incremental analysis. However, since this feature is also available on CodeSonar, it would be a good idea to have a plugin on Visual Studio just to have a quick analysis.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Vulnerability details is valuable."

"Both automatic and manual code review (CxQL) are valuable."

"Overall, the ability to find vulnerabilities in the code is better than the tool that we were using before."

"It has all the features we need."

"Apart from software scanning, software composition scanning is valuable."

"We use the solution to validate the source code and do SAST and security analysis."

"The solution improved the efficiency of our code security reviews. It helps tremendously because it finds hundreds of potential problems sometimes."

"The solution is scalable, but other solutions are better."

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"What I like best about CodeSonar is that it has fantastic speed, analysis and configuration times. Its detection of all runtime errors is also very good, though there were times it missed a few. The configuration of logs by CodeSonar is also very fantastic which I've not seen anywhere else. I also like the GUI interface of CodeSonar because it's very user friendly and the tool also shows very precise logs and results."

"It has been able to scale."

"There is nice functionality for code surfing and browsing."

"The tool is very good for detecting memory leaks."

"CodeSonar’s most valuable feature is finding security threats."

"The most valuable features of CodeSonar were all the categorized classes provided, and reports of future bugs which might occur in the production code. Additionally, I found the buffer overflow and underflow useful."

"The most valuable feature of CodeSonar is the catching of dead code. It is helpful."

Cons

"C, C++, VB and T-SQL are not supported by this product. Although, C and C++ were advertised as being supported."

"The product can be improved by continuing to expand the application languages and frameworks that can be scanned for vulnerabilities. This includes expanded coverage for mobile applications as well as open-source development tools."

"Implementing a blackout time for any user or teams: Needs improvement."

"It provides us with quite a handful of false positive issues. If Checkmarx could reduce this number, it would be a great tool to use."

"Creating and editing custom rules in Checkmarx is difficult because the license for the editor comes at an additional cost, and there is a steep learning curve."

"This product requires you to create your own rulesets. You have to do a lot of customization."

"Checkmarx is not good because it has too many false positive issues."

"Checkmarx needs improvement in its Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and API security features."

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"In terms of areas for improvement, the use case for CodeSonar was good, but compared to other tools, it seems CodeSonar isn't a sound static analysis tool, and this is a major con I've seen from it. Right now, in the market, people prefer sound static analysis tools, so I would have preferred if CodeSonar was developed into a sound static analysis tool formally, in terms of its algorithms, so then you can see it extensively used in the market because at the moment, here in India, only fifty to sixty customers use CodeSonar. If the product is developed into a sound static analysis tool, it could compete with Polyspace, and from its current fifty customers, that number could go up to a hundred."

"It would be beneficial for the solution to include code standards and additional functionality for security."

"The scanning tool for core architecture could be improved."

"It was expensive."

"CodeSonar could improve by having better coding rules so we did not have to use another solution, such as MISRA C."

"There could be a shared licensing model for the users."

"In a future release, the solution should upgrade itself to the current trends and differentiate between the languages. If there are any classifications that can be set for these programming languages that would be helpful rather than having everything in the generic category."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a good product but a little overpriced."

"I believe pricing is better compared to other commercial tools."

"Be cautious of the one-year subscription date. Once it expires, your price will go up."

"We have purchased an annual license to use this solution. The price is reasonable."

"Checkmarx is not a cheap scanning tool, but none of the security tools are cheap. Checkmarx is a powerful scanning tool, and it’s essential to have one of these products."

"Checkmarx is comparatively costlier than other products, which is why some of the customers feel reluctant to go for it, though performance-wise, Checkmarx can compete with other products."

"The price of Checkmarx could be reduced to match their competitors, it is expensive."

"We have a subscription license that is on a yearly basis, and it's a pretty competitive solution."

More Checkmarx One pricing and cost advice

"The application’s pricing is high compared to other tools."

"Pricing is a bit costly."

"Our organization purchased a license to use the solution."

"The solution's price depends on the number of licenses needed and the source code for the project."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

26%

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What alternatives are there for Fortify WebInspect and Fortify SCA?

I would like to recommend Checkmarx. With Checkmarx, you are able to have an all in one solution for SAST and SCA as well. Veracode is only a cloud solution. Hope this helps.

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What do you like most about Checkmarx?

Compared to the solutions we used previously, Checkmarx has reduced our workload by almost 75%.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Checkmarx?

The pricing is relatively expensive due to the product's quality and performance, but it is worth it.

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What do you like most about CodeSonar?

CodeSonar’s most valuable feature is finding security threats.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CodeSonar?

The application’s pricing is high compared to other tools. I rate its pricing a four out of ten.

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What needs improvement with CodeSonar?

Our license model allows one user per license. Currently, we have limitations for VPN profiles. We can’t share the key with other users. There could be a shared licensing model for the users. It wi...

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Overview

Checkmarx One is an enterprise cloud-native application security platform focused on providing cross-tool, correlated results to help AppSec and developer teams prioritize where to focus time and resources.

Checkmarx One offers comprehensive application scanning across the SDLC:

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
API security
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Container security
IaC security
Correlation, prioritization, and risk management
Codebashing secure code training
AI security
Tech partnerships extending AppSec into runtime analysis
Developer tool integrations including: CI/CD tools, development frameworks, feedback tools, IDEs, programming languages and SCMs

Checkmarx One provides everything you need to secure application development from the first line of code through deployment and runtime in the cloud. With an ever-evolving set of AppSec engines, correlation and prioritization features, and AI capabilities, Checkmarx One helps consolidate expanding lists of AppSec tools and make better sense of results. Its capabilities are designed to provide an improved developer experience to build trust with development teams and ensure the success of your AppSec program investment.

Checkmarx

GrammaTech enables organizations to develop software applications more efficiently, on-budget, and on-schedule by helping to eliminate harmful defects that can cause system failures, enable data breaches, and ultimately increase corporate liabilities in today’s connected world. GrammaTech is the developer of CodeSonar, the most powerful source and binary code analysis solution available today. Extraordinarily precise, CodeSonar finds, on average, 2 times more serious defects in software than other static analysis solutions. Designed for organizations with zero tolerance for defects and vulnerabilities in their applications, CodeSonar provides static analysis for applications where reliability and security are paramount - widely used by software developers in avionics, medical, automotive, industrial control, and other mission-critical applications. Some of GrammaTech's customers include Toyota, GE, Hyundai, Kawasaki, LG, Lockheed Martin, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Panasonic, and Samsung.

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Sample Customers

YIT, Salesforce, Coca-Cola, SAP, U.S. Army, Liveperson, Playtech Case Study: Liveperson Implements Innovative Secure SDLC

Viveris, Micrel Medical Devices, Olympus, SOFTEQ, SONY

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