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CodeSonar vs Coverity comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.4
CodeSonar's support team is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and excellent service, often rated four to five stars.
Sentiment score
7.0
Coverity's customer service is generally responsive and professional, but some users encounter communication delays and inconsistent expertise.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
4.5
CodeSonar needs improved architecture scanning, language support, security features, flexible licensing, and easier setup to compete with Polyspace.
Sentiment score
3.7
Coverity users seek improved UI, better IDE integrations, reduced false positives, expanded language support, and enhanced reporting features.
The Coverity license fee is very high, making it tricky for individual developers.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
CodeSonar is praised for scalability, performing well across projects, and organizations report no issues scaling its usage.
Sentiment score
7.1
Coverity is praised for scalability, although some face cost issues; it efficiently serves both small and large organizations.
 

Setup Cost

Sentiment score
8.5
CodeSonar is expensive but valued for reliability and ease of use, with costs over $100,000 annually for large projects.
Sentiment score
3.0
Coverity's pricing is perceived as expensive and complex, despite providing multi-language access without code limitations.
Coverity is considered expensive compared to other tools like SonarQube, which is much cheaper.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
CodeSonar is highly stable and dependable, consistently receiving high ratings for its reliability and crash-free performance.
Sentiment score
8.5
Coverity is praised for its stability and reliability, with users rating its performance highly and noting minimal configurations needed.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
7.8
CodeSonar effectively detects memory leaks, runtime errors, and security threats, ensuring code stability with its user-friendly interface.
Sentiment score
8.2
Coverity enhances code quality with low false positives, security analysis, customizable options, and seamless integration into development workflows.
The most valuable feature of Coverity is its interprocedural analysis.
 

Categories and Ranking

CodeSonar
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (20th), Static Code Analysis (5th)
Coverity
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

CodeSonar and Coverity aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CodeSonar is designed for Application Security Tools and holds a mindshare of 1.2%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
Coverity, on the other hand, focuses on Static Application Security Testing (SAST), holds 8.4% mindshare, up 7.2% since last year.
Application Security Tools
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
 

Featured Reviews

Mathieu ALBRESPY - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Md. Shahriar Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers impressive reporting features with user-friendliness and high scalability
The solution can be easily setup but requires heavy integration due to the multiple types of port and programming languages involved. Comparing the resource requirements of the solution I would say it can be installed effortlessly. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. A professional needs some pre-acquired knowledge to manage Coverity's deployment process, but the local solution partners provide support well enough for trouble-free deployment. The overall deployment process of Coverity took around two and a half hours in our organization. The deployment duration depends upon the operating system and resources including high-end RAM and CPU processors.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
25%
Computer Software Company
14%
University
9%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Manufacturing Company
32%
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CodeSonar?
CodeSonar’s most valuable feature is finding security threats.
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.
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...
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...
What do you like most about Coverity?
The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.
 

Comparisons

 

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Sample Customers

Viveris, Micrel Medical Devices, Olympus, SOFTEQ, SONY
SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space
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