Checkmarx One vs Klocwork comparison

Checkmarx and Perforce are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. Checkmarx is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.9, while Perforce is ranked #23 with an average rating of 8.3. Checkmarx holds a 12.1% mindshare in AS, compared to Perforce’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Checkmarx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

Checkmarx One

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87% willing to recommend

Klocwork

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1,748 Comparison Views

91% willing to recommend

Checkmarx One

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Checkmarx One and Klocwork are two leading products in the code security landscape. Checkmarx One appears to have the upper hand with more positive feedback on pricing and support services, while Klocwork is acknowledged for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Checkmarx One integrates with various development tools and CI/CD pipelines, supports a wide range of languages, and offers flexible deployment options. Klocwork provides comprehensive static code analysis, is ideal for large codebases, and supports complex projects effectively.

Room for Improvement: Checkmarx One could enhance real-time detection, reduce false positives, and improve user interface clarity. Klocwork needs better support documentation, streamlined configuration, and more accessible training resources.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Checkmarx One has a straightforward deployment model and responsive customer service. Klocwork's deployment can be more time-consuming, and it would benefit from more proactive support options.

Pricing and ROI: Checkmarx One is recognized for competitive setup costs and favorable ROI for growing businesses. Klocwork, though perceived as more expensive initially, offers value through its advanced features and scalability that appeals to enterprises.

To learn more, read our detailed Checkmarx One vs. Klocwork Report (Updated: January 2025).

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Checkmarx One vs. Klocwork

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Checkmarx One

Ranking in Application Security Tools

3rd

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

3rd

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

2nd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (20th), API Security (2nd), DevSecOps (2nd), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (7th)

Klocwork

Ranking in Application Security Tools

23rd

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

16th

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Checkmarx One is 12.1%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.5% 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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AnirbanSarkar

Head - Solution Management Group at Meteonic Innovation Pvt. Ltd.

Lets you find defects during the development phase, so you don't have to wait till the development is over to find and address flaws

What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity. What I'd like added in the next release of Klocwork is the peer code review Cahoots which used to be a part of Klocwork, and the architecture analysis and both have been taken out of Klocwork. I found the two critical for specific deployments, so if those can be brought back to Klocwork, that would be very good.

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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

"The process of remediating software security vulnerabilities can now be performed (ongoing) as portions of the application are being built in advance of being compiled."

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

"The user interface is excellent. It's very user friendly."

"Our static operation security has been able to identify more security issues since implementing this solution."

"The ability to track the vulnerabilities inside the code (origin and destination of weak variables or functions)."

"The most valuable feature for me is the Jenkins Plugin."

"The most valuable feature of Checkmarx is the user interface, it is very easy to use. We do not need to configure anything, we only have to scan to see the results."

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

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"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."

"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."

"Technical support is quite good."

"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."

"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."

"I like not having to dig through false positives. Chasing down a false positive can take anywhere from five minutes for a small easy one, then something that is complicated and goes through a whole bunch of different class cases, and it can take up to 45 minutes to an hour to find out if it is a false positive or not."

"The reporting helps us understand the trend of our results and whether we improve over time. We can see the history within Klocwork's server architecture and know that we're making things better. It creates a great story for our management. We can demonstrate value and how our software is developing over time."

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Cons

"Its user interface could be improved and made more friendly."

"The interactive application security testing, or IAST, the interactive part where you're looking at an application that lives in a runtime environment on a server or virtual machine, 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."

"Micro-services need to be included in the next release."

"With Checkmarx, normally you need to use one tool for quality and you need to use another tool for security. I understand that Checkmarx is not in the parity space because it's totally different, but they could include some free features or recommendations too."

"Checkmarx could be improved with more integration with third-party software."

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

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

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"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."

"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."

"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

"We bought Klocwork, but it was limited to one little program, but the program is now sort of failing. So, we have a license for usage on a program that is sort of failing, and we really can't use the license on anything else."

"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."

"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."

"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Most of my customers opted for a perpetual license. They prefer to pay the highest amount up front for the perpetual license and then pay for additional support annually."

"I would rate the solution’s pricing an eight out of ten. The tool’s pricing is higher than others and it is for the license alone."

"The solution is costly."

"This solution is expensive. The customized package allows you to buy additional users at any time."

"The pricing was not very good. This is just a framework which shouldn’t cost so much."

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

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"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Educational Organization

42%

Manufacturing Company

19%

Computer Software Company

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 Klocwork?

It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Our purchasing department is responsible for tracking costs. It's one of the most widely used tools in our organization. It likely does not have a high price point. I don't have insights into licen...

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze. It will show all poss...

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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

Klocwork detects security, safety, and reliability issues in real-time by using this static code analysis toolkit that works alongside developers, finding issues as early as possible, and integrates with teams, supporting continuous integration and actionable reporting.

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Sample Customers

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

ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL

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