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SonarQube vs Synopsys API Security Testing [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

SonarQube
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
134
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (1st), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (1st), Software Development Analytics (1st)
Synopsys API Security Testi...
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

KH
Sr Software Engineering Supervisor at Mozarc Medical
Gains control over rule customization and achieves reliable vulnerability assessment
The deployment process took me about 2 or 3 hours to deploy SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube), although I do not remember exactly since it was done about 2 years back. Currently, about 10 of my developers are using SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in my company. I do not have plans to increase the usage of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) in the future as there will not be any requirement to increase. I am a senior software engineer and supervisor at Mozark Medical. My corporate email address is karthik.k.a.r.t.h.i.k.h.a.r.p.a.n.h.a.l.l.i@mozarkmedical.com. Overall, I would rate SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) as a 9 out of 10.
UmarQureshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Useful threat vectors, beneficial results, but implementation needed support
We are using Synopsys API Security Testing for scanning APIs for risks and vulnerabilities and to understand our posture before deployment within our business The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares. I have been…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product itself has a friendly UI."
"SonarQube is a fantastic tool which saves us precious time."
"Some of the most valuable features have been the latest up-to-date of the OWASP, the monitoring, the reporting, and the ease of use with the IDE plugins, in terms of integration."
"The product is simple."
"I am only interested in the security features in SonarQube. There are plenty of features other features, such as test coverage, code anomalies, and pointer access are handled by the business logic teams. They get the reports and they have to fix them in JIRA or Bugzilla."
"SonarQube is one of the more popular solutions because it supports 29 languages."
"The customizable dashboard and ability to include results and coverage from unit test and other static analysis code tools."
"SonarQube is useful for controlling all of our Azure task tracking and scanning."
"The most valuable features of Synopsys API Security Testing are the metrics, results, and threat vectors that it shares."
 

Cons

"The exporting capabilities could be improved. Currently, exporting is fully dependent on the SonarQube environment."
"Ease of use/interface."
"The solution could improve by having better-consulting services."
"It should be user-friendly."
"The time it took for me to do the whole process was approximately two hours because I had to download, read the documentation, and do the configurations."
"The product provides false reports sometimes."
"When we have a thousand products published over it, we expect it to be more efficient in terms of serving requests from the browser."
"The solution is a bit lacking on the security side, in terms of finding and identifying vulnerabilities."
"The solution required us to use our team and we spoke to Synopsys API Security Testing's support to do the implementation. We use two people from our team for the implementation. and one person for maintenance."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The developer edition is based on cost per lines of code."
"The solution has a free version and a license version. The license is priced reasonably, the cost of hiring one programmer is more expensive than the solution."
"A low cost long-term solution for non-critical situations."
"The development license cost is reasonable, and we've had no concerns about SonarQube when it comes to cost."
"The product’s price is lower than Veracode’s price."
"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."
"I think comparing the product to competitors it should be less expensive."
"We use the tool's community edition."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
5%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise79
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Questions from the Community

Is SonarQube the best tool for static analysis?
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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?
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Sonar, SonarQube Cloud
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